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Faculty Fellow Batsis participates in National Council on Aging Roundtable on Obesity and Equitable Aging

Faculty Fellow Dr. John Batsis participated in a National Council on Aging Roundtable on Obesity and Equitable Aging on November 15, 2023. The goals of the roundtable were to: -- to shift the mindset on obesity so it is addressed as a serious chronic disease -- to discuss the Patient Bill of Rights -- to…

Faculty Fellow Perreira co-authors report on improving safety net benefit access for immigrant families in North Carolina

Many immigrant families face an array of barriers to enrolling in safety net programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Some are universal structural barriers that many program applicants confront navigating complex enrollment systems. Others are unique challenges around immigration concerns and language access. Understanding who these families are is the first…

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Exposure to a large-scale disaster affects cortisol levels more than a decade later

Exposure to a large-scale disaster, such as a tsunami, impacts population health over a decade later. A new study by an inter-disciplinary team of researchers in the United States and Indonesia has found that women who lived along the coast of Aceh, Indonesia when it was hit by waves from the 2004 tsunami have lower…

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Planey receives 2023 Gillings Faculty Award for Excellence in Health Equity Research

CPC at University Research Week

University Research Week will take place at UNC from October 23-27. You can see all events here. Below, we have listed all of the events that feature an affiliate of the Carolina Population Center. Galapagos Seed Grant Program 2023-34 Q&A October 24, 2023 3:00-4:30 More information These awards are designed to foster the development of…

New research looks at kindergarten vaccination rates in California

In 2016, a California policy (Senate Bill 277) eliminated nonmedical vaccination exemptions for school entry. Afterwards medical exemptions for kindergarteners increased, and California tightened restrictions on medical exemptions through two Senate bills (collectively SB276) passed in 2019. A new research letter in JAMA published on October 2 evaluates how medical exemptions changed, and where kindergarteners…

D4I at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) Conference 2023

Lessler to Co-Lead Atlantic Coast Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics and Analytics (ACCIDDA)