September 27, 2012 Asthmatic children do a better job of taking their medications if their caregivers are included in decision-making, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Karin Yeatts Karin Yeatts, PhD, research assistant professor of epidemiology at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, is... Read more »
September 21, 2012 On Sept. 18, Procter & Gamble (P&G) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced that their collaboration has delivered a total of five billion liters of clean drinking water to those in need. Dr. Greg Allgood (left) and Mr. Innocent Mofolo (center, back) deliver the celebratory cup of clean... Read more »
September 10, 2012 Twelve students at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have been designated as 2012-2013 Gillings Merit Scholars. The scholarships, established in 2010 to help the School recruit graduate students with exceptional promise and potential, are made possible through a $50 million gift to the School from Dennis Gillings and Joan... Read more »
September 07, 2012 Dr. Evan Dellon Evan S. Dellon, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine in the UNC School of Medicine and adjunct assistant professor of epidemiology in UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, was awarded the University’s Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty. Dellon applied... Read more »
Dr. Andrew Olshan, Chair Department of Epidemiology, announces new Associate Chair: Dr. Steve Meshnick “It is my pleasure to announce that Dr. Steve Meshnick, Professor of Epidemiology and Microbiology, is our new Associate Chair. Steve’s an accomplished researcher, heads our infectious disease program, and is director of the T32 training program in infectious... Read more »
April 18, 2012 For his groundbreaking research on treatment as prevention of HIV, Myron Cohen, MD, has received the top honor of the inaugural Clinical Research Forum Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards. Dr. Myron Cohen Cohen is professor of medicine and microbiology in the UNC School of Medicine and of epidemiology at UNC Gillings... Read more »
Top 10 in 2012: The year’s most-read news stories January 02, 2013 One of the most-read news articles on the Gillings School of Global Public Health website in 2012 was accompanied by a photograph of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shaking the hand of a Gillings faculty member. The faculty member in the... Read more »
August 10, 2012 Shine Chang, PhD, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health alumna, recently was one of the first recipients of the new Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award for University of Texas (UT) health institutions. She also was inducted into the UT Academy of Health Science Educators. Chang is Distinguished Teaching Professor and... Read more »
August 03, 2012 Despite recent reports that obesity in the U.S. appears to be leveling off, young adults who were born in the 1980s may continue to be burdened by increasing rates of obesity when compared to the rest of the adult population, according to a study published in the May 2012 issue of... Read more »
July 26, 2012 Nabarun Dasgupta A new report, published by UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health researchers, shows that data from national poison control centers may provide the best indicator of deaths by methadone overdose in the United States. Methadone is an opioid linked to 30 percent of deaths attributed to prescription painkiller... Read more »
