The Department of Health Behavior posts faculty news and updates on our website as they happen and distributes a compilation as a component of our e-newsletter several times a year. November 18 In the U.S., diabetes is diagnosed every 21 seconds, one in three adults and 100 million people are affected, and the estimated cost... Read more »
The Department of Health Behavior posts alumni news and updates on our website as they happen and distributes a compilation as a component of our e-newsletter several times a year. June-November 2018 Alumni survey 2018 Browse the list of more than 200 alumni updates by year of graduation. We received these updates through our annual... Read more »
The Department of Health Behavior posts student news and updates on our website as they happen. We also compile and distribute the list as a component of our e-newsletter. June – November 2018 November 15 November was a good month for doctoral student Yesenia Magaly Merino, who received an award, presented a poster and published her... Read more »
Dear fellow health behavior alumni, I hope all of you are doing well and enjoying the beginning of summer. Thanks to the many alumni who completed our ‘Alumni Updates’ survey back in September. With the information from this survey, we are able to share career updates from more than 100 of our alumni in this newsletter. The enthusiasm you... Read more »
How to connect with other health behavior alumni Start with a search for alumni on LinkedIn. Click on the image, or navigate to LinkedIn’s UNC alumni page (https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/alumni/) You may need to sign in to LinkedIn in order to see the page. This search will quicker on a computer than on a cellphone. Then use... Read more »
Show us your work, your student experience, your research and the issues you care about. The Department of Health Behavior’s first-ever photo contest opens May 1 and closes August 1, 2018. Prizes will be awarded and we expect to display some of the photos during orientation in August. Photographs to Submit Photographs should illustrate ore... Read more »
Edith Parker, DrPH, professor and chair of the University of Iowa Department of Community and Behavioral Health, has been named dean of the UI College of Public Health. She will begin on June 1. Parker, a two-time alumna of the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studied... Read more »
Charla Hodges, MPH, MCRP 2015, is excited about her work as a food environment consultant and senior project director at Counter Tools, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing policy, systems and environmental change based in Carrboro, N.C. The organization, co-founded in 2012 by Kurt Ribisl, PhD, professor and chair of the Gillings School’s Department of Health Behavior,... Read more »
Barbara Alvarez Martin, MPH 1995, was honored with the 2018 Women in Business Award by the Triangle Business Journal for her work to bring together public and business organizations to improve the health and well-being of Triangle-area communities and residents. Martin, director of Research Development for Cancer Prevention and Control at UNC Lineberger, received a... Read more »
After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, the world watched as the island surveyed unfathomable damage that left many people without electricity, water or a way to communicate. Kate Thanel, MPH 2010, and Chaunetta Jones, MPH 2013, who also holds a doctoral degree from Rutgers, answered the call to serve in Puerto... Read more »