Bartram named chair of NC Science Advisory Board
October 12, 2017 Dr. Jamie Bartram has been appointed to lead the newly expanded Secretaries' Science Advisory Board, overseen by the secretaries of North Carolina's state environmental quality and health agencies. The board is tasked with studying ways to better protect public health and the environment from new or emerging chemicals of concern, including GenX and hexavalent chromium.
Allocation of public health research investments may disadvantage black Americans, study finds
October 10, 2017 “Do black lives matter in public health research and training?” This was the question posed in a recent study co-led by three alumni of the Gillings School, including Department of Epidemiology faculty member Dr. Shabbar Ranapurwala.
Ammerman’s public service honored with Thomas Jefferson Award
October 6, 2017 To Dr. Alice Ammerman, public health is public service. This defining outlook was recognized at the Sept. 8 Faculty Council meeting, during which Ammerman accepted the Thomas Jefferson Award.
Five new Gillings Innovation Labs awarded
October 5, 2017 Five teams of Gillings School researchers and their collaborators have been awarded new funding for Gillings Innovation Laboratory awards (GILs), beginning this fall. The teams are led by Drs. Orlando Coronell, Stephanie Engel, Emily Gower, Stephen Marshall and Kristen Hassmiller-Lynch, and Steven Meshnick. The awards are administered by Research, Innovation and Global Solutions, the Gillings School unit that manages programs funded by the $50 million Gillings gift.
UNC researchers receive $61M grant to identify effective treatments for asthma
October 2, 2017 Dr. Anastasia Ivanova will lead a five-year, $61 million study to identify more effective treatments for asthma attacks and will do so by combining two important tools -- precision medicine and 'big data' analysis. The work is funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
Chair of maternal and child health to co-lead grant investigating sexual/gender identity, socioeconomic status and health
October 2, 2017 A new award co-funded by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, co-led by Dr. Carolyn Halpern, will explore how sexual orientation/gender identity and socioeconomic status intersect and contribute to health and disease across the life course.
Awards recognize outstanding postdoctoral researchers, mentors at Gillings School
September 28, 2017 One postdoctoral scholar and two postdoctoral faculty mentors from the Gillings School have received awards from UNC's Office of Postdoctoral Affairs.
The Kresge Foundation’s Emerging Leaders initiative transforming local public health leadership across US
September 21, 2017 Public health leaders from local health departments across the country convened in Chapel Hill to continue training to advance innovative new models within their agencies and in their communities.
NIAID renews 5-year grant for research on emerging viruses
September 19, 2017 Dr. Ralph Baric is co-principal investigator on a grant that will develop new mouse models that replicate the genetic diversity found in humans and validate precision medicine models that predict human gene function following infection by emerging pathogens.
More treatment options needed for HIV-positive women with cervical dysplasia, study finds
September 18, 2017 Three researchers from the Gillings School are co-authors of an article that compares two treatments for cervical dysplasia, concluding that altogether different protocols are needed to optimally treat cervical dysplasia in women living with HIV.