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 »
Nutrition student wins NC Dietetic Association’s leadership award
July 14, 2016 Courtney Luecking, doctoral student in nutrition at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, has won the North Carolina Dietetics Association’s (NCDA) Emerging Dietetic Leader Award for... Read more »
Race-related factors add to African-American men’s hesitancy to seek help for health problems
July 14, 2016 Men are less likely than women to seek help for health issues because they believe help-seeking is not “masculine,” research has shown. As a result, men in... Read more »
Armfield, benefactor for Gillings School’s atrium, dies at 81
July 14, 2016 William Johnston Armfield IV, 81, whose generous gift to the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health resulted in the naming of its light-filled atrium, died July... Read more »
Commentary calls for better documentation of wartime attacks on health-care facilities and patients
July 14, 2016 In an article published online July 4 in the journal Medicine, Conflict and Survival, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health researchers examine the complex and disturbing... Read more »
Powell selected for Aspen Institute Fellowship, will join entrepreneurial leaders mobilized to improve US health care
July 14, 2016 Wizdom Powell, PhD, associate professor of health behavior at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, was selected July 12 to receive one of the Aspen Institute’s... Read more »
