It also houses the China Health and Nutrition Survey, the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey,[4] the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RMLS),[5] the Global Food Research Program,[6] data from family planning and reproductive health program evaluations (MEASURE Evaluation; Measurement, Learning & Evaluation), and data about the effect of social cash transfer programs on poverty or disease transition in several African countries.
[7] In 1964, UNC Chancellor Paul Sharp invited Moye Freymann, MD, DrPH, the director of the Ford Foundation's population program in India,[8] to Chapel Hill to discuss establishing a population program at the university.
That same year, Sharp appointed 11 faculty members from across the campus to an interdisciplinary committee with the goal of creating a population center.
[citation needed] The Carolina Population Center was established in 1966 with funding from the Ford Foundation.
Making several visits to UNC in 1964 and 1965, Freymann helped the interdisciplinary committee secure funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).