UNC Gillings researcher to co-lead high-profile NIH grant to investigate environmental influences on child health
Dr. Rebecca Fry of the Gillings School was named co-principal investigator on the UNC ECHO grant, for which UNC was awarded $5 million by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate how exposure to environmental factors in early development can influence the health of children and adolescents.
Speizer named to RTI International’s 2016-2017 class of University Scholars
Dr. Ilene Speizer, research professor of maternal and child health, is one of six scholars selected to spend up to one academic year at RTI International, working on strategic research projects. Speizer will pursue an NIH grant for health interventions for young women in South Africa who engage in transactional sex.
Alumnus selected as distinguished professor at University of Alabama
Health policy and management alumnus Dr. Bob Hernandez has been appointed Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Health Professions. Hernandez earned a Doctor of Public Health degree at the Gillings School in 1981.
Gillings researchers to lead $1.2M grant to develop new analysis methods for eQTL studies
Drs. Andrew Nobel and Fred Wright, both faculty members in the UNC Gillings Department of Biostatistics, will lead a three-year, $1.2 million grant to address statistical challenges that arise in the analysis of next-generation expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) studies.
RWJF launches new leadership program: UNC to lead collaboration to build Culture of Health
Improving health and reducing persistent disparities in wellness and longevity across the United States requires clinical innovation and community transformation. The Clinical Scholars program, a new national leadership program led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has just selected its first cohort of fellows who will advance both.
Three UNC Gillings students selected for new national leadership program
How do we create better, more equitable health for all? That’s the question that will be explored by three Gillings School students who are part of the new Health Policy Research Scholars program. The program is led by Johns Hopkins University, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
West selected for NASA air quality and health team
Dr. Jason West, associate professor of environmental sciences and engineering at the UNC Gillings School, was selected to join a new health and air quality applied sciences team (H-AQAST) at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Health behavior students awarded record $325K to teach health education through technology
Elizabeth Chen, MPH, and Cristina Leos, MSPH, health behavior doctoral students at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, have won a $325,000 award from Innovation Next, a program of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. The award is the largest ever made to a student or a student group at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
UNC’s Gillings School number one public school of public health for NIH funding
September 7, 2016 Once again, the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health is the number one public school of public health when it comes to funding... Read more »
NCI renews grant for genomics and cancer research training program at Gillings School
September 2, 2016 The Department of Biostatistics at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health has been awarded a renewal of the “Biostatistics for Research in Genomics and Cancer”... Read more »
