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." badgerherald.com/news/campus/...

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." www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

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. sph.unc.edu/sph-news/tai...

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! ccps.unc.edu/ccps-opportu...

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. sph.unc.edu/sph-news/gil...

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. www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2025/10/28/f...

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. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/h...

Watch CPC Fellow Ted Mouw's UNC Research Week presentation "Using UNC's Research Data Center to Analyze Local Demographic Micro Data" youtu.be/SKdFX2WsQEw

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. www.ednc.org/compare-nc-s...

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. www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...

BRIEF: The relationship between the current fertility rate and population decline is not straightforward, CPC Director Karen Guzzo and co-authors say. contemporaryfamilies.utah.edu/publications...

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. www.newsweek.com/white-house-...

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 tinyurl.com/mt4r4azh

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. www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...

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. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...

"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. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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.

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. apps2.research.unc.edu/events/index...

Insecticide-treated baby wraps help protect against malaria during the day when bed nets can't be used, says CPC Fellow Ross Boyce. globalhealth.unc.edu/2025/09/unc-...

Congratulations to Carolina Population Center fellows Elizabeth Frankenberg, Robert Hummer, and Nathan Dollar for their successful renewal of the Carolina Center for Population Aging and Health (CCPAH)! Visit the CCPAH website to learn about their work. ccpah.cpc.unc.edu

Congratulations to CPC Fellow Lauren Gaydosh, who received the Early Career Award in Population Health from the Milbank Quarterly at the 2025 Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) Conference! www.milbank.org/news/lauren-...

Census Scientific Advisory Committee chaired by CPC Fellow Barbara Entwisle returns as an independent body to continue offering recommendations. apnews.com/article/cens...

Cancelling annual hunger survey may mean the government plans to cut food assistance programs, says CPC Fellow Lindsey Smith Taillie. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

CPC Fellow Barry Popkin says that without regulations or laws to mandate change in the food and drug industries, 'MAHA' report is "all promises and has no teeth." www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/h...

Recommending lower priority solutions rather than tackling more substantial issues like sugary drinks in schools "speaks to industry lobbying," CPC Fellow Lindsey Smith Taillie says. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

'Make America Healthy Again' report lacks "actual, meaningful action that would help Americans address our problems with poor diets and physical activity," CPC Fellow Lindsey Smith Taillie says. www.npr.org/transcripts/...

Opinion: Low Birth Rates Are Here To Stay—Until Our Economy Works for Everyone, says CPC Director Karen Benjamin Guzzo. www.newsweek.com/low-birth-ra...

Interview: CPC Fellow Kavita Arora says investments in women's health and maternal care in the U.S. will ensure the best outcomes for families and communities. www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/hosp...

Growing under-5 populations in four N.C. counties are a result of prime working-age people moving to the state, says Carolina Demography Director Nathan Dollar. www.axios.com/local/raleig...

Towns that allow building in flood zones face a compounding risk of those areas being inundated by rising seas and storm water, says CPC Fellow Miyuki Hino. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

New UNC Health fellowship aims to train physicians to be leaders in OBGYN care and prepare them for the realities of a rural practice, says CPC Fellow Kavita Arora. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Congratulations to CPC Fellow Elizabeth Frankenberg, who was elected President of the Population Association of America (PAA) for 2026! www.populationassociation.org/blogs/paa-we...

CPC Director Karen Guzzo and co-authors argue that population projections aren't a 'crystal ball' and become less accurate as researchers project farther from the present. sites.utexas.edu/contemporary...

"We don't want their voices silenced." CPC Fellow Jaime Slaughter-Acey seeking donations to complete data collection for study canceled by Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/h...

Draft report on children's health shows the White House isn't serious about reducing ultraprocessed food in kids' diets, says CPC Fellow Lindsey Smith-Taillie. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/h...

CPC Fellow Arianna Planey: Says collecting data on participants' gender has been and remains scientifically justified and doing so improves health research. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

'FAIR' research funding model faces skepticism from faculty, but is the best choice for maintaining a strong research enterprise, says CPC Fellow Penny Gordon-Larsen. www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

"I'd say it's logistically unfeasible." Carolina Demography Director Nathan Dollar joins Capital Tonight to talk about President Trump's proposed 'new census.' spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte...

Former FDA chief's petition to bar ultraprocessed food ingredients is "the strongest play a citizen can do to affect our food supply that I’ve ever seen,” says CPC Fellow Barry Popkin. www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/h...

New CDC report showing only a slight decline in consumption of ultra-processed food was flawed by small data set, CPC Fellow Barry Popkin says. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...

@uncpopcenter.bsky.social's Bob Hummer is giving the 18th NIH Matilda White Riley Distinguished Lecture on August 28th from 3-4pm ET. This honor recognizes Bob's contributions to population science & his stewardship of Add Health. Register for the webinar here: obssr.od.nih.gov/news-and-eve...

Proposed tweak to sugar levels in orange juice raises broader questions about its health benefits. CPC Fellow Barry Popkin says OJ, like all fruit juices, is "sugar water." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

CPC Fellow Jamie Slaughter-Acey says cuts to federal research funding are part of a larger pattern of political interference in science that puts the health of all people at risk. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Congratulations to CPC Fellow Bob Hummer, who is this year’s speaker for the 18th NIH Matilda White Riley Distinguished Lecture on August 28! obssr.od.nih.gov/news-and-eve...

CPC Fellow Barry Popkin says without new FDA regulations, letting food companies voluntarily stop using artificial dyes has minimal impact and is largely symbolic. thehill.com/policy/healt...

Drastically reducing governmental funding of science threatens to weaken, if not destroy American scientific research supremacy, says CPC Fellow Peter Coclanis. thedispatch.com/article/gold...

CPC Director Karen Benjamin Guzzo and co-authors argue that fears of a population 'collapse' are misguided and based on faulty assumptions about birth rates, population growth, and economics. theconversation.com/fears-that-f...

"Worry is not a good moment to have kids," CPC Director Karen Benjamin Guzzo says, as U.S. birth rates decline for women in most age groups due to cost, lack of healthcare, and societal upheaval. apnews.com/article/fert...

Unless policymakers regulate the food industry, the 'Make America Healthy Again' movement is just a public relations campaign, says CPC Fellow Lindsey Smith-Taillie. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/maha...

CPC Fellow Jaime Slaughter-Acey says health science research cuts put medical breakthroughs at risk. "What we're doing matters for every mom and baby in this country." news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...