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The Network on Life Course Health Dynamics & Disparities launches website
October 7, 2015Oct 7, 2015 The Network on Life Course Health Dynamics & Disparities in 21st Century America website was launched on October 6, 2015. Bob Hummer is CPC's PI on this collaborative project, working with colleagues at the University of Southern California, University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Michigan. The Network on Life…
CPC Fellow Hummer elected PAA Vice President and former CPC Director and Fellow Tsui elected PAA President
October 6, 2015Oct 6, 2015 The Population Association of America announced the results of the recent election of its officers and Board of Directors. Robert Hummer is Vice President-elect and Amy Tsui is President-elect. Robert Hummer is the Howard W. Odum Professor of Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a CPC Faculty Fellow. Tsui was the Director…
CPC Fellow Popkin’s published review finds global trends in food consumption impact cardiovascular disease
October 5, 2015Oct 5, 2015 UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health posted an announcement about a recently published article co-authored by Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow Barry M. Popkin. This is an excerpt of the announcement: More than 80 percent of cardiovascular disease deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. There are few data, however, on…
Lifestyle and Behavior in Young Adulthood: Add Health Research Brief now available
September 3, 2015Sep 3, 2015 The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health recently released a Research Brief using the study's data. "Lifestyle and Behavior in Young Adulthood" provides a snapshot of the lifestyle habits of young adults in the U.S. in 2008 including sleep and sleep problems, physical activity, sedentary behaviors, fast food and sweet…
Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey – HSE data is now available via Dataverse
September 1, 2015Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey - HSE data is now available via Dataverse Data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey - Higher School of Economics (RLMS-HSE) is now available for researchers to access via Dataverse. The RLMS-HSE is a series of nationally representative surveys designed to monitor the effects of Russian reforms on the health and…
Add Health Releases Codebook Explorer (ACE)
September 1, 2015Sep 1, 2015 Access the new Add Health Codebook Explorer (ACE) to search for questions administered in the In-School and In-Home Interviews Interested in browsing the Add Health In-School and In-Home interviews for questions related to a specific topic, or quickly discovering whether questions were administered across multiple waves of interviews? The Add Health Codebook…
CPC Fellow Harris co-authors study that finds a causal connection between genotypes and educational attainment
August 24, 2015Aug 24, 2015 A recent study by Kathleen Mullan Harris and her co-authors found that there is a causal connection between a person's polygenic score and the years of education they achieve. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, also known as Add Health, the sibling with the higher polygenic…
CPC Fellow Adair leads a NIH Center for Scientific Review committee
August 17, 2015Aug 17, 2015 CPC Fellow Linda Adair is now leading the Social Sciences and Population Studies 'A' Study Section for NIH. UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health posted a news story about her new role, this is an excerpt: "Linda S. Adair, PhD, professor of nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public…
Measure Evaluation Featured in the International AIDS Society Blog “Science Speaks”
August 11, 2015Aug 11, 2015 Post-Ebola, ask the right questions By Antigone Barton on August 10, 2015. The following is a guest post by Kathy Doherty of MEASURE Evaluation The recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa exposed the weaknesses of national health systems in general, and health information systems in particular, and served as a wake-up call…
Research by CPC Fellow Pettifor shows cash transfers for school attendance did not reduce the risk of HIV infection
August 3, 2015Aug 3, 2015 UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health posted a news story about CPC Fellow Audrey Pettifor and her presentation at the recent 8th International Aids Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention. This is an excerpt from the story: A phase III trial has found that conditional cash transfers for…