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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 … Read more

Pop Sci Summer

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 … Read more

Demography Daze is Back!

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

D4I at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) Conference 2023

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

The Psychosocial Resources Caregivers Need to Provide Nurturing Care

Faculty Fellow Stephanie Martin recently co-authored a blog post entitled “The Psychosocial Resources Caregivers Need to Provide Nurturing Care: How Can We Help?” for USAID Advancing Nutrition, the Agency’s flagship multi-sectorial nutrition project. Martin and other researchers detail how nutrition … Read more