Gillings Merit Scholars and Gillings Dissertation Awards announced
August 17, 2016 Sixteen students at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have been selected as 2016-2017 recipients of Gillings Merit Scholarships or Gillings Dissertation Awards. The scholarship and... Read more »
Indian scholar awarded P.K. Sen Distinguished Visiting Professorship
August 17, 2016 Sebastian George, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Statistics and Biostatistics at St. Thomas College, Palai, in Kerala, India, has been named P.K. Sen Distinguished Visiting... Read more »
Gillings School’s summer undergraduate training program inspires new group of young scholars
July 29, 2016 As the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s summer undergraduate training program comes to a close this week, participants and mentors are celebrating another season during... Read more »
Biostatistics’ Tan wins award for best paper in Canadian statistics journal
July 18, 2016 Xianming Tan, PhD, research associate professor of biostatistics at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has received the Statistical Society of Canada’s Canadian Journal of... Read more »
Gillings alumna LaVange elected ASA president
June 28, 2016 Lisa LaVange, PhD, 1983 alumna and former professor of biostatistics at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been elected the 113th president of the... Read more »
Kosorok to co-lead NIH ‘Big Data’ supplemental grant to train doctoral students in biomedical sciences
June 28, 2016 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) have awarded a $97,956 supplemental “Big Data to Knowledge” (BD2K) grant to... Read more »
Few adults aware of chemicals in cigarettes, study finds
June 22, 2016 Adults in the United States have little awareness of the chemical components of cigarette smoke, though many of them report having looked for information about the composition... Read more »
AJPH editorial proposes a ‘causal impact’ framework to improve public health decision making
June 13, 2016 In a recently published editorial, researchers from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health departments of epidemiology and biostatistics argue that a “causal impact” framework –... Read more »
Amy Richardson: An internship led to a great career
May 27, 2016 Public health led Amy Richardson, PhD, to Google. It wasn’t her expected career path, but the 2014 alumna of the Gillings School’s biostatistics department landed a job... Read more »
Duke’s Berger delivers Greenberg Distinguished Lectures
May 16, 2016 James O. Berger, PhD, winner of the 2016 Greenberg Distinguished Lecturer Award, presented three talks on May 12 and 13 as part of the 2016 Bernard G.... Read more »
