The School received thirty-one brief proposals for Gillings Innovation Labs by the November 5th deadline. At least three experts reviewed each proposal for potential public health impact and rigor. After further review by School department chairs and other members of the Dean’s Council, the School invited 10 teams to prepare full proposals. Those full proposals... Read more »
October 02, 2008 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health has named James Merchant, M.D., Dr.P.H., and Thomas C. Ricketts, Ph.D., as Gillings Visiting Professors. James Merchant, MD, DrPH Merchant was dean of the University of Iowa College of Public Health at until July 2008 and is a... Read more »
September 26, 2008 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has officially named its school of public health the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in recognition and appreciation of a $50 million gift from Dennis Gillings and Joan Gillings. Joan Gillings and Dennis Gillings The Gillingses pledged the gift, the largest single... Read more »
September 25, 2008 Steven R. Meshnick, MD, PhD The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health has established a new Gillings Innovation Lab to track and map tropical infectious diseases such as malaria, using state-of-the-art molecular and demographic methods. Better information about the prevalence and location of diseases will help national... Read more »
August 28, 2008 The newest Gillings Innovation Laboratory at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health will tap new technology to help researchers examine individual differences in the metabolism of inorganic arsenic and in the susceptibility to adverse effects associated with chronic exposures to arsenic. The ultimate goal is to find out why... Read more »
June 02, 2008 Would people and their communities be healthier if they still got food from local farms? A team of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers has received a grant to study the public health impact of moving toward a local, sustainable food system. The team will establish a Gillings Innovation Laboratory... Read more »
April 23, 2008 The UNC School of Public Health has announced funding for five new Gillings Innovation Labs (GILs), ranging from water testing in developing countries to mental health services in North Carolina. The projects were among 36 proposals submitted earlier this year by School faculty, in collaboration with many other individuals and organizations. Proposals... Read more »
September 24, 2007 Photograph of Sheila Leatherman Sheila Leatherman has been named the first Gillings Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. The professorship is part of Carolina Public Health Solutions, a program established in the School through a generous gift from Dennis and Joan Gillings. Ms.... Read more »
September 07, 2007 Seeking better ways to design and conduct clinical trials, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health has established a new Center for Innovative Clinical Trials. Faculty and other collaborators within the center will develop new methods of collecting and analyzing data from clinical trials, and then efficiently... Read more »
February 21, 2007 More than $2 billion and counting. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill surged past its $2 billion goal for the Carolina First Campaign Feb. 21 – with more than 10 months to spare and the single largest commitment in university history pushing the drive into its closing months. Photograph of... Read more »
