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A public health prognosis
April 22, 2021Alyssa LaFaro, Endeavors, Monday, April 12th, 2021 Graduate student Rachel Woodul spent two years researching what might happen to hospital capacity during a pandemic. When COVID-19 arrived, she compared what her model — and others’ — got wrong to improve how … Read more
Jess Stanford featured on IIANC podcast
April 22, 2021Jess Stanford, Demographic Analyst with Carolina Demography at the Carolina Population Center, was featured on the Independent Insurance Agents of NC podcast discussing the soon-to-arrive 2020 Census data and what it’s likely to show in terms of our state’s growing … Read more
Carolina Demography’s research featured in NC Health News
April 22, 2021Carolina Demography’s report on vaccine hesitation in NC was featured in an April 21, 2021 piece on NC Health News entitled “Coronavirus Today – Apr. 21 — Most COVID restrictions to be lifted in June if two-thirds of adults are … Read more
Carolina Demography’s research featured in WRAL column
April 22, 2021Carolina Demography’s research on the educational attainment pipeline in NC was recently featured in a WRAL column by Mary Ann Wolf, the president and executive director of the Public School Forum of North Carolina.
“Geography of risk” impacts analysis of racial inequities in COVID-19 deaths
April 22, 2021April 5, 2021 COVID-19 has placed a disproportionate burden on communities of color, reflected in the higher rates of positive cases, long-term health effects and deaths. While public health leaders analyze and quantify these inequities, a group of UNC epidemiologists … Read more
Whitney Robinson featured in The New York Times
April 22, 2021Faculty Fellow Whitney Robinson was featured in a New York Times piece on how epidemiologists are planning to vacation with their unvaccinated kids.
Manish Kumar to particpate in PAHO policy workshop
April 22, 2021Manish Kumar, the Senior Technical Specialist-Health System Strengthening in the USAID-MEASURE Evaluation project, will be participating in the kick-off policy workshop organized by the Pan American Health Organization. He also recently participated in the IS4H conference organized by PAHO and … Read more
Carolina Demography’s work featured on CBS17
April 21, 2021In a CBS17 report on the drastic improvement in NC Latinos’ vaccination rates, Carolina Demography’s work on the Latino population in NC is highlighted.
Whitney Robinson pens guest essay for Insight
April 21, 2021Faculty Fellow Whitney Robinson has written a guest essay for Insight on how she navigated the difficult and complicated information landscape early in the pandemic to puzzle through whether to send her two children to childcare.
Taylor Hargrove featured in ASA Footnotes
April 21, 2021Faculty Fellow Taylor Hargrove writes about racialized health inequalities in the American Sociological Association’s Footnotes.