# Population Science Training Grant

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · 2021 · $490,172

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
The overall goal of UNC's Population Science Research Training Program is to create a cadre of future leaders
in social science and public health disciplines with the subject matter expertise, interdisciplinary orientation,
population perspective, and data skills to address and have an impact on pressing issues in demography,
population health, and reproductive health. Housed in the Carolina Population Center (CPC), the program has
assembled an outstanding training faculty drawn from 11 departments, roughly balanced between social
science and public health disciplines; their participation in the training program is broad and sustained. The
training, based in research, is both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary. The predoctoral program combines
disciplinary PhDs with a strong grounding in population science through coursework, seminars, and workshops
and a mentored research practicum with one or more faculty members that continues throughout training. The
postdoctoral program is structured around a close mentoring relationship between the training faculty and
postdoctoral scholars, customized to fit the goals and interests of both. Consistent with CPC's strengths as
best practice, the predoctoral and postdoctoral programs promote interdisciplinarity and teamwork, provide
opportunities for professionalization, and create a welcoming and supportive community for emerging
population scholars. The predoctoral program recruits from among graduate students already accepted into
PhD programs at UNC, a highly selective pool. As an accommodation to the multidisciplinary nature of the
program, all new and returning predoctoral trainees apply and are reviewed each year. Newly minted scholars
with PhDs or equivalent in a social science or health discipline are recruited directly into the program for a two-
year appointment (with review after a year). Support is requested for eight predoctoral and two postdoctoral
traineeships per year, a level well justified by the competitiveness of the current program and the outstanding
productivity and placement of prior trainees.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10153835
- **Project number:** 5T32HD007168-43
- **Recipient organization:** UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
- **Principal Investigator:** LISA D PEARCE
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $490,172
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1979-07-01 → 2024-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10153835

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10153835, Population Science Training Grant (5T32HD007168-43). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10153835. Licensed CC0.

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