Excellent, Lund named to 2023 class of Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars

September 27, 2023
Drs. Marie Lina Excellent and Jennifer Lund join the latest cohort of this collaborative program, which that brings together selected faculty from across campus to advance engaged research conducted in partnership with communities to address issues of shared concern and mutual benefit.

Part of $50M NIH study examines “omics” of liver disease in Mexican-American border population

September 26, 2023
Dr. Kari North and collaborators aim to use multi-"omics" data to understand the biological factors that may contribute to liver disease associated with obesity in Mexican-American communities in southern Texas.

Gillings students, alumni and faculty contribute to NCMJ themed issue on violence prevention

September 25, 2023
Scientists from the Gillings School collaborated with N.C. public health experts on an issue of the North Carolina Medical Journal documenting common-sense community-based programs and people that are working to make firearm ownership safer in the state using evidence-based approaches to lower the probability of firearm-related injuries and deaths.

UNC Gillings School to host new CDC center for outbreak forecasting, response

September 19, 2023
The Gillings School is one of 13 funded partners working with the CDC’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics to establish the Outbreak Analytics and Disease Modeling (ODAM) Network. This funding will support the creation of the Atlantic Coast Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics and Analytics, which will serve as the OADM Coordinating Center and as a Center of Innovation.

A combined care strategy to prevent HIV during and after pregnancy in Malawi and Zambia

August 30, 2023
New research out of Zambia and Malawi suggests that incorporating robust prevention strategies into routine pregnancy care could lead to substantial reductions in the numbers of HIV-negative mothers acquiring HIV during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

The Abstract: August 28, 2023

August 28, 2023
Check out highlights and winners from the Biostatistics Undergraduate Summer Internship Research Symposium! Plus, new findings and funding for Gillings School researchers in biostatistics, environmental sciences and engineering, epidemiology, and more.

Hincapie-Castillo named Mayday Fund fellow to improve care for chronic pain

August 8, 2023
Dr. Juan Hincapie-Castillo is one of 12 experts in pain science and care recently named as fellows of the Mayday Fund’s Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship: Communicating Science & Improving Care.

Researchers link early-life exposure to wildfire smoke with early use of upper respiratory medication

July 19, 2023
Children exposed to wildfire smoke in the first trimester of pregnancy or the first few weeks after birth are more likely to be prescribed upper respiratory medication earlier in life, according to a new UNC-EPA study.

UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke to be awarded up to $50 million from the FDA for new research center

July 11, 2023
Triangle CERSI will work with FDA scientists to perform cutting edge scientific research to better inform and support the FDA’s needs.

The Abstract: July 10, 2023

July 10, 2023
New research from biostatistics, health behavior and nutrition, plus a new grant to study lung cancer screening.

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