Alumnus Madkour wins APHA award for research about intimate partner homicide in NC
| November 10, 2009 | |
Dr. Aubrey Madkour
Aubrey Spriggs Madkour, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, has received a research award from the American Public Health Association (APHA) epidemiology section. Madkour, who graduated from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2009 with a doctorate in maternal and child health and a minor in epidemiology, conducted the award-winning research while a student. She received the award for her abstract, “Area Disadvantage and Intimate Partner Homicide: An Ecological Analysis of North Carolina Counties, 2004-2005,” at the APHA meeting in Philadelphia on November 10, 2009.
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu. |
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