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Carolina Population Center
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Our faculty, staff, and students conduct research on population, health, aging, and the environment, and share data and findings that push the field forward.

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Carolina Population Center 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series:

Ross Boyce - Without an Ark: Baseline Demographics of Residents Living in a Flood-Prone Area of Rural Western Uganda
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Ross Boyce - Baseline Demographics of Residents Living in a Flood-Prone Area of Rural Western Uganda
YouTube video by Carolina Population Center at UNC-Chapel Hill
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November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Carolina Population Center 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series:

Sarah Petry - The Years Before Medicare: Expected Health Insurance Transitions
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Sara Petry - The Years Before Medicare: Expected Health Insurance Transitions
YouTube video by Carolina Population Center at UNC-Chapel Hill
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November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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The U.S. is behind other countries in requiring easy to understand nutrition and warning labels, said CPC Fellow Marissa Hall. “Warning labels are a surprisingly powerful tool for changing behavior when they are well-designed,” she said.
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Food, tobacco and alcohol labels should be easy to find and memorable, UNC researcher says
A UNC researcher says the United States has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to informing consumers about the potential health risks of products they’re buying. Depictions of smoking-related h...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Congrats to CPC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Sociology Lauren Valentino, who was selected for a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar Fellowship for the 2026-27 academic year!
November 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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“More than half of the women in rural North Carolina live more than 30 minutes away from a birthing hospital," says CPC Fellow Kavita Arora. New OB/GYN fellowship she will lead is a step in the right direction to close that gap, she says.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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On Veterans Day, CPC Fellow Ross Boyce reflects on how his time in the military has influenced his service to UNC and the state of North Carolina.
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The University of North Carolina on Instagram: "⚠️ Content Warning: Explosion + military medical scene (non-graphic) ⚠️ Before he led projects to fight malaria in Uganda, former U.S. Army captain Dr....
In this video, we sit down with Dr. Ross Boyce, a veteran, physician, and associate professor at UNC School of Medicine. He shares how his military experience has shaped his approach to medicine, high...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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CPC Fellow Fenaba Addo says "stark racial disparities in student loan debt accumulation and repayment make it clear that race and racial inequality are central to understanding the student loan debt crisis in the United States."
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Experts discuss racial inequities in student debt at UW webinar
The University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty hosted a webinar Oct. 29. The webinar examined the effects of student loans and how they specifically target Black students and families, ...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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CPC Director Karen Guzzo discusses the pronatalism movement on WBUR's Here and Now. "Low birth rates have been mainstreamed without being well understood and they're being used to foment a population panic."
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The state of the pronatalist movement
The pronatalist movement, which claims to be rectifying what some of its members describe as the likely collapse of civilization due to population decline.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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CPC Fellow Lindsey Smith Taillie will launch Lola, a personalized AI online grocery shopping technology that nudges users toward healthier choices as part of the new Kairos program at UNC’s Eshelman Innovation Institute.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Congratulations to CPC Fellows Cassandra Davis and Stephanie Martin on being named to the 2025 class of Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars, a Carolina Center for Public Service initiative that supports and accelerates community-engaged research and teaching!
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October 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Carolina Population Center fellows Audrey Pettifor, Marissa Hall, and Ilene Speizer will serve as departmental liaisons for the International Student Departmental Liaisons program at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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American kids' daily intake of ultraprocessed foods and sugary snacks should be more of a concern than their eating candy on a once-a-year holiday like Halloween, says CPC Fellow Lindsey Smith Taillie.
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Food allergies can make Halloween tricky to navigate
While food dye and allergen concerns are valid at Halloween, a UNC researcher says sharper focus should be on improving kid's everyday diets.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Insecticide-treated baby wraps help provide a 'bridge' for babies until they are old enough to get the malaria vaccine. "You’re protecting the kid while they’re getting to that optimal vaccine-reduced protection," says CPC Fellow Ross Boyce.
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In Fight Against Malaria, an Unexpected — and Snuggly — Shield
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October 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Watch CPC Fellow Ted Mouw's UNC Research Week presentation "Using UNC's Research Data Center to Analyze Local Demographic Micro Data"
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Ted Mouw - Using UNC's Research Data Center to Analyze Local Demographic Micro Data
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October 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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New tool created by Carolina Demography and the N.C. Dept. of Public Instruction helps researchers group and compare school districts based on multiple indicators, rather than just using county population density.
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Compare NC school districts with this new Carolina Demography tool
Carolina Demography created a set of 10 North Carolina school district clusters that accurately capture their similarities and differences.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Children who grow up in areas where wealth is more unevenly spread are less likely to move up the income ladder, says CPC Fellow Manuel Schechtl.
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Q&A: Professor’s landmark study links wealth inequality to upward mobility | UNC-Chapel Hill
Children who grow up in areas where wealth is more unevenly spread are less likely to move up the income ladder.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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BRIEF: The relationship between the current fertility rate and population decline is not straightforward, CPC Director Karen Guzzo and co-authors say.
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How Do We Know When Fertility Is Too Low? - Contemporary Families - The University of Utah
Falling birth rates in the U.S. have raised concerns that the current total fertility rate (TFR) has fallen "below replacement" level. In reality, the relationship between current fertility rates and ...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Lack of confidence in the future—especially around the cost of living and childcare expenses—is leading many people to postpone having children, CPC Director Karen Guzzo says.
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White House issues warning over US fertility rate
Robert F. Kennedy Jr deemed declining U.S. fertility rates a "national security threat," saying birth rates are not high enough to stabilize the population.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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We are excited to announce that Nathan Dollar, Director of Carolina Demography, was accepted into Class 33 of Leadership North Carolina. He will work with and learn from 55 other North Carolina leaders across all sectors to tackle our state’s biggest challenges. #LNC #LNC33
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Leadership North Carolina Announces Members of 33nd Class
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October 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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UNC launches nation’s first rural OB-GYN fellowship. “Early and regular prenatal care is critical for reducing the risks of pregnancy and birth complications,” says fellowship director and CPC Fellow Kavita Arora.
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UNC Health launches nation’s first rural OB-GYN fellowship | UNC-Chapel Hill
The new UNC School of Medicine program addresses urgent need to improve maternal health.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Lack of a legal definition of 'ultraprocessed foods' is a major issue in nutrition and California's new ban takes on the problem with evidence-based solutions, says CPC Fellow Lindsey Smith Taillie.
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California Will Ban Certain Ultraprocessed Foods in Schools
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October 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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"It was a level of effect that was beyond even our wildest expectations," CPC Fellow Ross Boyce says about the protection against malaria children received from wraps treated with insecticide.
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Babies take a lesson from soldiers in the war against malaria
Inspired by a military strategy to ward off disease-carrying mosquitoes, researchers see if the technique will help cut malaria infections in little ones.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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CPC Fellows Ted Mouw and Marissa Hall will present as part of UNC's University Research Week next week! View a full schedule of the week's events at researchweek.unc.edu.
October 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Carolina Demography Director Nathan Dollar will speak on a panel at the "Six Decades Later: Legacies of the 1965 Immigration Act" event at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 3 at UNC's Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Research in Black Culture and History.
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October 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Insecticide-treated baby wraps help protect against malaria during the day when bed nets can't be used, says CPC Fellow Ross Boyce.
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UNC-Led Study Published in the New England Journal of Medicine Demonstrates Repellent-Treated Baby Wraps Can Substantially Reduce Malaria Among Young Children | Institute for Global Health and Infecti...
Published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, this trial led by Ross Boyce, MD, MSc and colleagues highlights the potential impact of permethrin-treated textiles as a novel tool in the fight...
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October 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM