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 »
Holmes appointed director of UNC Sheps Center for Health Services Research
July 8, 2016 The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health is pleased to announce that George “Mark” Holmes, PhD, has been appointed as the new director of the Cecil... Read more »
Saye Baawo, alumnus and public health leader in Liberia, dies of cancer at 50
July 7, 2016 Saye Dahn Baawo, MD, MSPH, alumnus of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and assistant minister for curative services in Liberia’s Ministry of Health and... Read more »
Peer support engages disadvantaged, ‘hardly reached’ people and benefits their health
July 7, 2016 A recent study by researchers at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health shows that peer support is an especially effective strategy for helping people not... Read more »
Turpin to chair environmental sciences and engineering, pending approvals
July 7, 2016 Dean Barbara K. Rimer has announced her intention to appoint Barbara J. Turpin, PhD, as the new chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering (ESE)... Read more »
Olshan elected president of Society for Epidemiologic Research
July 6, 2016 Andrew Olshan, PhD, Barbara Sorenson Hulka Distinguished Professor in Cancer Epidemiology and chair of the epidemiology department in the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global... Read more »
Mexico’s household consumption of junk food declined following 2014 nonessential food tax
July 5, 2016 The first large-scale study of a ‘junk food tax’ enacted in Mexico has revealed that purchases of taxed food items declined during the first year of implementation... Read more »
Unprecedented alliance of scientists, physicians, health advocates agree: Toxic chemicals are hurting brain development
July 1, 2016 An unprecedented alliance of leading scientists, medical experts and children’s health advocates agree for the first time that today’s scientific evidence supports a link between exposures to... Read more »
