Researchers call for collaboration to better understand how air pollution impacts health
March 30, 2016 The need to understand how air pollution affects health is greater than ever, reports a new article led by Jason West, PhD, associate professor of environmental sciences... Read more »
Studies examine positive impact of weight loss upon cancer risk
March 29, 2016 Preliminary findings for two studies about the relationship of obesity and cancer, conducted in the laboratory of Stephen Hursting, PhD, will be presented April 18 and 19... Read more »
Shafer studies smoking, from smoke-free air laws to anti-smoking media campaigns
March 24, 2016 Paul Shafer, MA, studies media campaigns and policies related to tobacco use. Recently, he has co-authored articles on both a statewide smoke-free air law and a national... Read more »
Seven from Gillings School receive Impact Awards; fellowships presented to other public health scholars
March 23, 2016 Students from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health earned seven of the 17 Impact Awards presented by the Graduate School in 2016. The awards, made... Read more »
Gillings health behavior researchers study HIV testing, intimate partner violence in Tanzania
March 23, 2016 HIV testing and intimate partner violence are the public health issues that Marta Mulawa, a doctoral candidate of health behavior at the UNC Gillings School of Global... Read more »
Getting there: What does it take to care for mothers and their babies in remote Ghana?
March 15, 2016 This article, by Mary Lide Parker, was originally posted in Endeavors magazine on March 8. In a small village in southern Ghana, a 29-year-old pregnant woman named... Read more »
UNC epidemiology study: New SARS-like virus may be nearly ready to infect humans
March 15, 2016 A study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that a SARS-like virus known as WIV1-CoV, which is found in horseshoe... Read more »
Gillings researchers find link between number of births and heart disease risk factors in Hispanic/Latina population
March 10, 2016 Six researchers at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health are co-authors of a recently published article linking the numbers of times Hispanic/Latina women give birth... Read more »
Doctoral student wins award for papers in Nutrition Research journal
March 4, 2016 Daniel Lupu, MD, doctoral student in nutrition, has received the 2015 David Kritchevsky Graduate Student Award from the journal Nutrition Research for two articles published in the... Read more »
Health behavior student co-authors articles on e-cigarettes, tanning bed injuries
March 2, 2016 The public health challenges of e-cigarettes and cancer caused by tanning beds are the subjects of two separate papers co-authored by a doctoral student from the Department... Read more »
