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Assistant Professor Department of Health Policy and Management Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1101D McGavran-Greenberg Hall, CB#7411| Chapel Hill, NC 27599 +1-919-445-0886. sean_sylvia@unc.edu.
My current research connects food systems, early human capital, public health and policy. Currently, I am dedicated to study obesogenic environments, parental behavior, early human capital ...
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Juan Carlos Caro is a UNC-Chapel Hill doctoral candidate through the Health Policy Management Department of the Gillings School of Public Health. Caro became a client of ITS Research Computing while working on his doctoral dissertation.
While conducting his dissertation research, Caro collaborated with the Chilean Ministry of Education to process large routine administrative data sets with assessment information about the entire population of students enrolled in public schools across the country. However, this data had not yet been thoroughly analyzed or implemented for social be...
With over one million observations recorded per year for every student at Chilean schools, Caro quickly found that standard statistical software would not be able to process and model the data in the way he wanted. Since research is often self-confined, he recognized that there would be difficulties in presenting the live data in real-time, requiri...
Caro contacted Alberto Vargas of ITS Research Computing in the winter of 2019 for assistance with this project to help make the technology user-friendly and appealing for a potential user, such as a school principal or social service team member. Vargas helped Caro with process steps on Git, Python and Longleaf, and together, they designed the webs...
Between Caro’s expertise in research and Vargas’ skills in web development, the pair was able to develop a seamless, fully automated web product with a GitHub open repository that could visually display their data aggregations on a population level. Caro and Vargas hope the metrics displayed on their site can be used by parents, social services wor...
Because of its design, Caro and Vargas’ project can also be used as an iterative, continuous tool for researchers and policymakers on a global scale. Leveraging the publicly available GitHub open repository with data sourced from different places, “Research Computing can use this project as a teaching position for either faculty or students who wan...
Jan 15, 2020 · Taxes on unhealthy foods and sweetened beverages, as well as subsidies to healthy foods, have become increasingly popular strategies to curb obesity and related non-communicable diseases. The existing evidence on the welfare effects of such fiscal policies is mixed and almost uniquely focused on tax schemes.
- Juan Carlos Caro, Pourya Valizadeh, Alejandrina Correa, Andres Silva, Shu Wen Ng
- 2020
Authors. Juan Carlos Caro 1 , Andrew E Clark 2 , Conchita D'Ambrosio 3 , Claus Vögele 3. Affiliations. 1 University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Electronic address: juan.caro@uni.lu. 2 University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Paris School of Economics - CNRS, France. 3 University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. PMID: 36343461. PMCID: PMC9617690.
La Facultad de Ingeniería informa a la comunidad universitaria que Juan Carlos Caro, ingeniero comercial, máster en economía de la Universidad de Chile y Doctor en políticas sanitarias de la Universidad de Carolina del Norte, Estados Unidos, se suma como profesor al Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial.
Juan Carlos Caro's 8 research works with 22 citations and 394 reads, including: Distributional effects of parental time investments on children’s socioemotional skills and nutritional...
