BIOS students win travel awards for ASA conference
February 23, 2016 Lu Mao and Jingxiang (Sean) Chen, doctoral students in biostatistics at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, have been accorded American Statistical Association (ASA) travel... Read more »
Former US Assistant Surgeon General guides the Gillings School toward a ‘culture of health’
February 13, 2016 “Every day, you should take your dog for a long walk – even if you don’t have a dog!” says Penny Slade-Sawyer, with a grin. Slade-Sawyer, a... 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 »
Two biostatistics students honored with Distinguished Paper Award
February 2, 2016 Biostatistics doctoral students at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have won two of 20 Distinguished Student Paper Awards accorded annually by the International Biometric Society’s... Read more »
Gillings student Hauser named Churchill Scholar
January 28, 2016 Blake M. Hauser, a fourth-year student in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been named a recipient of the Churchill Scholarship. The research-focused award... Read more »
Minority Health Conference to focus on intersection of public health and social justice
January 25, 2016 “In Solidarity: The Role of Public Health in Social Justice” is the theme of UNC’s 37th annual UNC Minority Health Conference, to be held Friday, Feb. 26... Read more »
Research led by epidemiology student now rated sixth in impact among readers of global health journal
January 21, 2016 Editors of Global Health: Science and Practice (GHSP) have announced the top 12 articles published in the journal in 2015, based on number of research citations and... Read more »
Gillings School student, alumnus among first cohort of Schwarzman Scholars
January 11, 2016 The two UNC recipients of the inaugural Schwarzman Scholars program award both represent the Gillings School of Global Public Health. Larry Han, a senior, and Max Seunik,... Read more »
Croffut to join future public health leaders at CDC summit
January 11, 2016 Samantha Croffut, a graduate student of nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been selected as a delegate to the 2016 Millennial Health... Read more »
Epidemiology student selected for Forbes '30 under 30' list of rising stars
January 11, 2016 Mugdha Gokhale, MS, doctoral candidate in epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been selected as one of Forbes magazine’s “30 under 30”... Read more »
