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Grabbing the Golden Goose
September 23, 2016Upon celebrating its 50th anniversary, the Carolina Population Center is presented with the Golden Goose Award for its National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. The Golden Goose Award ceremony was held on Thursday, September 22, 2016 at the Library of Congress. In addition to the awardees, approximately 500 guests from Congress, Science Agencies,…
New Add Health Research Brief: Characteristics of Young Adult Relationships
August 10, 2016Aug 10, 2016 The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health project staff released a new Add Health Research Brief on Characteristics of Young Adult Relationships. Aug 2016, No.3 Characteristics of Young Adult Relationships https://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/news/add-health-research-briefs You may also sign up to receive Research Brief alerts in the future.If you have questions, please contact addhealth@unc.edu. …
CPC Fellow Gordon-Larsen is chair of NIH study section on Kidney, Nutrition, Obesity and Diabetes
July 25, 2016Jul 25, 2016 As of July 1st, CPC Fellow Penny Gordon-Larsen is chair of NIH's study section on Kidney, Nutrition, Obesity and Diabetes. UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health posted this announcement: Penny Gordon-Larsen, PhD, professor of nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, will become chair of the National Institutes…
Parent Involvement Helps Teens Stay Away from Alcohol: NPR features Add Health research
July 18, 2016Jul 18, 2016 Using data from Add Health, researchers Donaldson, Handren and Crano examined the relationship between teens and their parents and parental effect on teenage drinking. Teens with parents who were more supportive and monitored their children were less likely to binge drink. Parental protection from teenage binge drinking may also protect against future…
CPC Fellow Olshan elected president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research
July 11, 2016Jul 11, 2016 Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow Andrew Olshan has been elected president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research. UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health posted this announcement: Andrew Olshan, PhD, Barbara Sorenson Hulka Distinguished Professor in Cancer Epidemiology and chair of the epidemiology department in the University of North Carolina's Gillings School…
A Total Market Approach to Improve Access to Family Planning
July 11, 2016Jul 11, 2016 CHAPEL HILL, NC-An estimated 225 million women in developing countries want to delay or stop childbearing but are not using any contraceptive method, in many cases because they lack access to products and services. Today, on World Population Day, MEASURE Evaluation focuses attention on the "total market approach" (TMA) to family planning,…
CPC Fellow Pettifor invited to present at United Nations’ ‘High-Level Meeting to End AIDS’
June 28, 2016Jun 28, 2016 A UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health epidemiologist whose research focuses on social and structural drivers of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa was an invited speaker at the United Nations' 2016 High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, held June 8-10 in New York City. Audrey Pettifor, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology at…
RLMS Longitudinal Files Covering 1994-2014 Are Now Available!
June 7, 2016Jun 7, 2016 On behalf of the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, Demoscope and the HSE have prepared longitudinal files containing all years of data from 1994-2014, both for the individual data (adults and children) and for the household data. Each observation is an individual or a household with all variables available for that year. The…
Sounds Like Digital Innovation
May 24, 2016May 24, 2016 By Kimberly Best, MEASURE Evaluation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill You'd think that on the roof of a six-story hotel located in a "quiet" district of town, street sounds would be somewhat muffled. Not so in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Below me, a jackhammer sounded off. Another joined it, amidst a staccato…
Carolina and Duke Gather at SSRI for Demography Daze 2016
May 20, 2016May 20, 2016 The Carolina-Duke rivalry is arguably one of the greatest, but when it comes to academics, the two are often close collaborators and good friends. Only ten miles apart, faculty often share expertise and research with one another (despite what shade of blue they think is best).The rivalry took another break Thursday as…