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CPC Fellow Adair Awarded NIH Funds to Study Prenatal Nutrition of HIV-infected Women in Malawi
October 29, 2007Oct 29, 2007 Linda S. Adair, CPC Fellow and Professor in the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received funding for the project "Prenatal Nutrition and Adverse Birth Outcomes in HIV-infected Women in Malawi." Adair will study maternal diet and nutritional status in mid to late pregnancy among…
CPC Fellow Penny Gordon-Larsen’s research on weight gain in the early years of marriage appears in USA Today
October 24, 2007Oct 24, 2007 Young adults might want to change their wedding vows to say they are taking each other "for better or girth"..."The weight gain in this age group is frightening," says Penny Gordon-Larsen, an assistant professor of nutrition in the school of public health at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. To read the…
CPC Fellow Rindfuss Awarded NIH Funding on Circular Migration of Young Adults in Thailand
October 17, 2007Oct 17, 2007 CPC Fellow Ronald R. Rindfuss, Robert Paul Ziff Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received funding for the research project "Circular Migration and Its Long-Term Impacts." This research project examines the determinants of patterns of young adult migration between the Nang Rong district in…
CPC Fellow Speizer Receives Funding to Study Partner Violence Among Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa
October 17, 2007Oct 17, 2007 Ilene S. Speizer, CPC Fellow, has been awarded funding for the research project "Partner Violence Norms and HIV Risk Taking Among Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa." This study uses data from more than 15 recent African Demographic and Health Surveys to examine the association between partner violence norms and HIV risk and preventive…
CPC Fellow Peggy Bentley named associate director of new Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases
October 11, 2007Oct 11, 2007 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has launched an Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases to extend and enhance ongoing research efforts to improve the lives of people around the world. The institute, based in the School of Medicine, will build on the University's current global health presence in…
CPC Fellow Richard Udry’s classic research on baby boomlets appears in news
October 4, 2007Oct 4, 2007 Aislyn Gleghorn, now 4 weeks old, may find she has a certain fondness for windstorms when she grows up. After all, she was conceived during the great Hanukkah Eve Wind Storm of 2006, which left more than a million Puget Sound residents without electricity -- some for days. ... In 1970, J.…
CPC Fellow Jay Kaufman comments on the doctor’s role in health care disparities in the News and Observer
October 4, 2007Oct 4, 2007 White men with heart disease are far more likely to get a simple live-saving treatment than women or black men, two new studies from Duke University show. ... "They have stereotypes about minorities and about women and about old people and young people. We all do," said Jay Kaufman, a UNC-Chapel Hill…
CPC Selected as Study Center to Expand National Children’s Study to Rockingham County, NC
October 4, 2007Oct 4, 2007 The National Institutes of Health selected the Carolina Population Center (CPC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be the study center for the National Children's Study in Rockingham County, NC. The National Children's Study (NCS) is an unprecedented effort to learn about and improve children's health in the…
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin comments on bottled water in The Chicago Tribune
September 25, 2007Sep 25, 2007 ... "There's not a single drink out there -- from Enviga to SmartWater -- that has any proof of impact," said nutrition professor Barry Popkin, who directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Just because [a nutrient] is in the product doesn't necessarily mean…
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin discusses global overweight and obesity in the news
September 25, 2007Sep 25, 2007 ... "It's a very different world than it was a while back," said Dr. Barry Popkin, director of the University of North Carolina's Interdisciplinary Obesity Center. "The bulk of the world is fat." Even the Mediterranean diet isn't stopping Europeans' expanding waistlines. In Italy, 42 percent of adults are overweight and 9…