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CPC Fellow Gray Receives Research Excellence Award from the Association of American Geographers
March 9, 2017Mar 9, 2017 The Association of American Geographers Population Geography Specialty Group has chosen Clark Gray to receive the Research Excellence Award. Gray is a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow and an Associate Professor of Geography at UNC. The award will be given during the AAG Annual Meeting on Friday, April 7. David Lopez-Carr was…
Judith Kovenock, 1933-2017
March 9, 2017Mar 9, 2017 Judy Kovenock's imprint on the Carolina Population Center is etched in every aspect of the center's success and in the outstanding staff who support its research and training. Judy came to CPC in 1968, two years after the center was established, to work on data collection research projects. She retired in 2004,…
Translating Data into Health Recommendations: MEASURE Evaluation Project Mentors 14 Zambian Health Professionals
February 24, 2017Feb 24, 2017 Health data are essential to understanding what is working in a health system and what is not. Data alone, however, are just numbers, unless transformed into compelling information products that communicate and lead to action to improve health care. For the past year MEASURE Evaluation--a $180 million program housed in the Carolina…
Demographic Changes from the Lens of a Demographer: Q & A with Dr. Rebecca Tippett
January 23, 2017Jan 23, 2017 Rebecca Tippett, Director of Carolina Demography at UNC's Carolina Population Center, recently participated in a strategic planning conference with the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. ZSR posted a summary of Tippett's analysis and remarks. Excerpt: "We asked Dr. Tippett to provide us with a high level overview of some of the more significant…
MEASURE Evaluation experts share thinking on global health challenges in a new series of short podcasts
January 19, 2017Jan 19, 2017 Experts at the MEASURE Evaluation project at CPC develop approaches and conduct research for health information systems strengthening and improved public health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries across the globe. We gather the best of their thinking, results of rigorous evaluations, and innovations grounded in best practice--here delivered in small sound…
Speizer to examine sustainability of family planning program activities in urban Nigeria
November 22, 2016Nov 22, 2016 CPC Fellow Ilene Speizer was recently awarded a new project that will assess longer-term implications of family planning funding in urban Nigeria. Speizer will collaborate with CPC Fellow David Guilkey.Ilene Speizer, PhD, research professor in the Maternal and Child Health Department at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Gillings School…
Research Published in PLOS Medicine by CPC Fellow Thirumurthy Shows Giving Women HIV Self-Tests Promotes Male Partner Testing
November 8, 2016Nov 8, 2016 The paper reports results from the CPC research study led by Harsha Thirumurthy: The Use of HIV Self-tests to Promote Partner and Couples Testing: A Randomized Trial. Thirumurthy is a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow. Read the PLOS Medicine article here. PLOS Medicine news release issued November 8, 2016: Giving women HIV…
A Smarter Way to Build Health Information Systems? An Essay by Jim Thomas, MEASURE Evaluation Director and CPC Fellow
October 21, 2016Oct 21, 2016 By Jim Thomas, PhD Originally posted on the MEASURE Evaluation project website. The 25 health indicators in the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were created with the hope that the global health advances of the last few decades will continue. For example, the mortality rate of children under five years of…
Applications Being Accepted for Carolina Population Center’s Next Director
October 12, 2016Oct 12, 2016 Excerpt from the job posting:"Applications and nominations are invited from all scholarly fields concerned with population issues for the position of Director of the Carolina Population Center (CPC). The Director has institutional responsibilities for promoting and overseeing research, educational, and grant-development activities. The CPC is a community of scholars and professionals collaborating…
CPC Fellow Speizer named to RTI International’s 2016-2017 class of University Scholars
September 26, 2016Sep 26, 2016 Ilene Speizer, PhD, research professor of maternal and child health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and faculty fellow at UNC's Carolina Population Center, is one of six scholars selected to spend up to one academic year at RTI International, working on strategic research projects. The RTI University Scholars…