Purchases of highly processed foods lower among African-American and Hispanic households than among white households, study finds
July 27, 2016 A new study from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health found that, compared with white households, both African-American and Hispanic households had lower total purchases... Read more »
Visiting Scholar from Zambia learning more about implementation research at the Gillings School
July 27, 2016 Hikabasa Halwiindi, PhD, senior lecturer in the University of Zambia School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health, is a visiting scholar this summer with the Public Health... Read more »
Care4Moms project to address needs of mothers with medically fragile babies
July 27, 2016 An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received nearly $900,000 in federal funding to identify and address the needs... Read more »
UNC Gillings Study: Antibodies from Dengue fever survivors can be used to prevent Zika infection
July 26, 2016 Antibodies derived from patients who survived Dengue fever can be used to fight the Zika virus now and potentially open the door for the development of a... Read more »
Gillings School student worked to improve women’s health in Zambia
July 21, 2016 This article, compiled and written by Jamie Gnazzo, first appeared July 7 on the UNC Global website. Jane Chaffee didn’t realize her passion for public health until... Read more »
Christine Kim, Gillings School doctoral student, receives Boren Fellowship
July 21, 2016 Christine Kim, a doctoral student at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been awarded the National Security Education Program’s David L. Boren Fellowship. This... Read more »
Sullivan elected to US Breastfeeding Committee’s board of directors
July 20, 2016 Catherine Sullivan, MPH, RD, LDN, acting director of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute and the Institute’s director of training, has... Read more »
Gordon-Larsen to chair NIH study section on kidney, nutrition, obesity and diabetes
July 18, 2016 Penny Gordon-Larsen, PhD, professor of nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, will become chair of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Kidney, Nutrition,... 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 »
NIH awards UNC $23M to help eradicate HIV
July 14, 2016 Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive nearly $23 million over the next five years to continue research on their innovative “kick... Read more »
