Four new Gillings Innovation Labs awarded
February 29, 2016 Four teams of researchers at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have been awarded new funding for Gillings Innovation Labs (GILs), beginning this spring. The... Read more »
ESE student team awarded EPA’s ‘People, Prosperity and the Planet’ grant
February 29, 2016 A team of students working with Mark Sobsey, PhD, Kenan Distinguished Professor of environmental sciences and engineering (ESE) at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health,... Read more »
Gillings researchers receive funding to harmonize India-US youth diabetes registries
February 24, 2016 Two researchers at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health have received funding from the National Institutes of Health for a collaborative grant... Read more »
Review of recent research suggests calcium supplements may be overused by middle-age and older adults
February 22, 2016 The adult recommended dietary allowances (RDAs) for calcium have changed several times over the last half-century, and controversy continues about how much calcium healthy adults need and... Read more »
PTSD may accelerate immune system aging
February 22, 2016 A new study led by a researcher at the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health has found that people affected by post-traumatic stress... Read more »
Study finds different genetic mutation patterns for HPV-positive throat cancer patients based on smoking history
February 19, 2016 Smoking and infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) are two risk factors for an increasingly common type of throat cancer. In a new study, University of North Carolina’s... Read more »
‘Tips from Former Smokers’ ads connect more than half a million people to tobacco cessation resources
February 19, 2016 The question: How effective was the “Tips From Former Smokers” (Tips) television campaign at driving traffic to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Tips campaign... Read more »
Gillings researchers describe new method of measuring performance on complex public health goals
February 4, 2016 Country-level performance on public health, human rights and international development goals is notoriously hard to measure. Recently, three researchers from the Water Institute at UNC’s Gillings School... Read more »
Gillings School researchers join US cancer centers in endorsement of HPV vaccination for cancer prevention
January 27, 2016 UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center has joined 68 other National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer centers across the U.S. in calling for increasing the rates of vaccination against... Read more »
Folate — friend or foe?
January 25, 2016 This article, written by Alyssa LaFaro and Mary Lide Parker, appeared originally in the January edition of Endeavors magazine, a publication of UNC Research that features the university’s... Read more »
