Health Policy and Management News
Dilworth-Anderson honored with UNC’s University Diversity Award
April 19, 2018
Dr. Peggy Dilworth-Anderson was selected recently by the UNC Office of Diversity and Inclusion to receive the 2018 University Diversity Award.
Four UNC Gillings students named Phillips Ambassadors
April 18, 2018
Gillings School students William Keith Blanks Jr., Wei Chang, Blythe King and Julie Nguyen will represent UNC in Asia as Phillips Ambassadors.
Gillings PhD student receives Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Burcu Bozkurt, a PhD student in health policy and management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health has received a 2018 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Now in its 20th year, the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships honors the contributions of immigrants and children of immigrants… Read more »
Weintraub receives dentistry association’s distinguished service award
April 16, 2018
Dr. Jane Weintraub, adjunct professor in health policy and management at the Gillings School and distinguished professor at the UNC School of Dentistry, has been presented with the American Association of Public Health’s Dentistry’s Distinguished Service Award.
Some progress seen reducing breast cancer among African American women in Edgecombe County
Racial disparities among breast cancer cases Edgecombe County appears to be less profound than in 2007 when a seminal report on breast cancer was issued, but while some positive change has been seen in ongoing local efforts to improve breast cancer knowledge and care, other efforts have still fallen short. Those are the findings of… Read more »
Health policy and management senior named Luce Scholar
March 2, 2018
Leah Everist, an undergraduate health policy and management student at the Gillings School, has been selected as a 2018 Luce Scholar by the Henry Luce Foundation. Everist will take part in a year-long internship in community preparedness and disaster response in Asia.
Rozier, Weintraub co-author oral health paper commissioned by National Academies’ Roundtable on Health Literacy
February 22, 2018
Drs. Gary Rozier and Jane Weintraub are co-authors of a comprehensive paper on the integration of oral health, primary care and health literacy. The commissioned work is part of a series of papers aimed at informing, inspiring and activating the development, implementation and sharing of evidence-based health literacy practices and policies.
Malone named 2018 Future Faculty Fellow
February 8, 2018
Tyler Malone, a first-year doctoral student of health policy and management at the Gillings School, has been named a 2018 Future Faculty Fellow by the UNC Center for Faculty Excellence.
Herzog, former HPM faculty member, dies at 84
February 5, 2018
Bill Herzog, health policy and management faculty member in the 1960s and 1970s, died Jan. 30, in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Chemotherapy before surgery found cost-effective in patients with advanced ovarian cancer
January 24, 2018
In the short term, neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) was found to be more cost-efficient than primary surgery in women with advanced stage epithelial ovarian cancer. Additionally, NACT resulted in a greater boost to quality-adjusted life-years per patient.