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Winners Selected for UNC Creativity Hubs Inaugural Awards
May 4, 2018May 4, 2018 Carolina Research Teams Span Disciplines to Fight Obesity, Advance Water Purification Published by UNC Research. UNC's new Creativity Hubs initiative, a component of the Carolina Blueprint for Next strategic framework, has announced awards to campus research teams pursuing solutions to two of the world's most pressing issues: the obesity epidemic and the global…
CPC Researchers Acknowledged as Poster Session Winners at Population Association of America’s Annual Meeting 2018
May 3, 2018May 3, 2018 See all of CPC's posters presented at PAA 2018 here. The 2018 PAA conference was held April 26-28 at the Sheraton in downtown Denver, CO. Researchers from the Carolina Population Center (CPC) at UNC Chapel Hill were recognized as poster winners in three categories of research. Wei Chang is a PhD candidate…
In Memoriam of Jason Davis, Assistant Professor of Geography and CPC Faculty Fellow
April 12, 2018Apr 12, 2018 We mourn the passing on April 1st of Jason Davis, Assistant Professor of Geography and Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center. Jason was a young and prolific scholar who studied the relationships between migration, development and environmental change in origin countries. He received his PhD in Geography in 2010 from UC-Santa…
CPC Fellows Popkin, Ng & Taillie funded to evaluate the implications of policies on food purchasing patterns, diets, & health
April 9, 2018Barry M. Popkin’s team has been awarded funding to study food purchasing patterns, diets, and health and how government policies about these can impact human health. The funding is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Work is underway in Mexico and Chile in evaluating major food and nutrition policies, and the team is working with a number…
CPC Fellows Popkin, Ng & Taillie funded to evaluate the implications of policies on food purchasing patterns, diets, & health
April 9, 2018Apr 9, 2018 Barry M. Popkin's team has been awarded funding to study food purchasing patterns, diets, and health and how government policies about these can impact human health. The funding is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Work is underway in Mexico and Chile in evaluating major food and nutrition policies, and the team is working…
DHIS 2 organizes a world of health data
March 27, 2018Mar 27, 2018 This short video tells how a software system helps low-resource countries compile and analyze health data to improve services. Video by MEASURE Evaluation. DHIS 2 - A Workhorse for Health Information https://vimeo.com/257187268
CPC at PAA 2018
March 26, 2018Mar 26, 2018 The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be held April 26-28 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown. Listed below are the sessions presented by CPC Faculty Fellows, postdoctoral scholars, predoctoral and undergraduate trainees, and staff members. Names of Faculty Fellows are linked to their CPC profile page. The PAA 2018…
CPC Researcher Tippett presents at My Future NC: Leakage from the College Pipeline
February 16, 2018Feb 16, 2018 Cross posted from http://www.higheredworksfoundation.org/2018/02/college-pipeline/ WINSTON-SALEM - Under current trends, out of 100 North Carolina 9th-graders, 72 will graduate from high school in the next four years and say they intend to go to college. But only 53 will eventually enroll, and after 10 years, only 30 will go on to earn a…
MEASURE Evaluation Project Scores UNC’s Largest-Ever Award: $232 Million for Social Science Research
January 24, 2018Jan 24, 2018 CHAPEL HILL, NC-One of the largest research awards made to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) just got bigger, making MEASURE Evaluation not only UNC's largest project in global health, but the largest single award the university has ever received, at $231.9 million. MEASURE Evaluation is a five-year cooperative…
Simple Steps with Lasting Impact for Newborn Survival
January 16, 2018Jan 16, 2018 Every child born should have the optimum chance of survival. This story is cross-posted from here. Although that goal might seem obvious, the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 (SDGs) have placed new emphasis on newborn survival as central to the global health agenda. The SDG target is for countries to reduce neonatal…