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The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health releases data from Wave V Sample 1
December 19, 2017Dec 19, 2017 The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) recently released the data file for Wave V Sample 1. The file contains data from 3,872 of the Wave V Sample 1 respondents. The respondents completed the survey between March 2016 and March 2017. To request the data file, contract researchers…
UNC Study: Minorities Do Not Receive Same Physical Health Benefits of College Completion as White Peers
December 18, 2017Dec 18, 2017 (Chapel Hill, N.C. - Dec. 18, 2017) - A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finds that black and Hispanic young adults from disadvantaged childhoods do not enjoy the same health-promoting benefits of college completion as their upwardly mobile white peers. The paper is the first to…
Former CPC Director Thomas Hall, 1931-2017
December 4, 2017Dec 4, 2017 This remembrance of Thomas Hall was published by Research!America and was distributed by APHA's International Health Section. Hall was Acting Director of the Carolina Population Center from 1974-1975 and was CPC Director from 1975-1977. He was a faculty member in UNC's Health Administration department.In Memoriam: Thomas Hall, MD, DRPH, 1931-2017 Dr. Thomas Hall…
Speizer to lead $4M grant for evaluation of expanded contraceptive method choice for youth in Africa and Asia
November 30, 2017Nov 30, 2017 The Carolina Population Center today announced a new program to generate and synthesize evidence to inform programs and policies to expand contraceptive method choice for youth aged 15-24 at the global and country levels. This work is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Ilene Speizer, a faculty member in maternal…
CPC’s Transfer Project awarded new grant by Hewlett Foundation to study national cash transfer projects in sub-Saharan Africa
November 22, 2017Nov 22, 2017 The Hewlett Foundation has awarded a grant for $690,000 to CPC Fellows Gustavo Angeles and Sudhanshu Handa to improve evidence based decision-making in sub-Saharan Africa. The three year grant will support the Transfer Project, a regional research initiative led by UNICEF, the University of North Carolina and the FAO to generate evidence on impacts…
Visualizing geographic challenges to health services is the first step to finding solutions
November 13, 2017Nov 13, 2017 Geography matters in public health. It's necessary to understand where things happen. Are health facilities near the people who need them? Do diseases cluster in a specific place? Where should we direct resources after crises such as floods or refugee movement? These days, knowing the geography of virtually any human or physical…
CPC Moves to Carolina Square in November
October 30, 2017Oct 30, 2017 In November, UNC's Carolina Population Center moves to its new home at Carolina Square, the former location of University Square. For the first time since its earliest years, CPC will be housed under a single roof, uniting a network of 300 Faculty Fellows, staff, and trainees. From its origins in a small…
Tom Heath, Carolina Population Center’s Deputy Director for Finance and Administration, retires after 28 years at CPC
October 17, 2017How many of you know that Tom Heath has completed two marathons during his career at CPC? One was a 26.2-mile race in 2000 and the other, as he approaches retirement from UNC, is a 26(+2)-year run at the Carolina Population Center. Heath is Deputy Director for Finance and Administration and after more than 28…
CPC Fellow Halpern appears on WUNC’s The State of Things: NC Teen Pregnancies at Decades Low, Thanks in Part to Contraception
October 12, 2017Oct 12, 2017 Carolyn Tucker Halpern was interviewed by Frank Stasio, host of WUNC's The State of Things about the historic low teen birth rate in North Carolina. Halpern is a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow and is a UNC professor and chair of the Department of Maternal and Child Health in the Gillings School…
CPC Fellow Halpern will co-lead grant investigating sexual/gender identity, socioeconomic status and health
September 29, 2017Sep 29, 2017 A new award co-funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities will explore how sexual orientation/gender identity and socioeconomic status intersect and contribute to health and disease across the life course. Carolyn T. Halpern, PhD, professor and chair of…