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Based at the Carolina Population Center, Add Health is the nation's largest most comprehensive long-term study of adolescents from across the country. The study began with more than 20,000 adolescents surveyed in 1994-95. Since then, data have been collected about their educational experiences, employment, children and parenting, genetics and health.
The new grants will enable researchers to follow the group into their 40s, and better understand how early life - during adolescence and young adulthood - matters for health and well-being in middle age and beyond.
UNC-Chapel Hill professor Kathleen Mullan Harris directed Add Health from 2004-2021 and this year UNC-Chapel Hill professors Robert Hummer and Allison Aiello assume leadership.