UNC Gillings' Water Institute, World Vision partnership will improve clean water access in 10 African nations
A six-year grant from World Vision to The Water Institute at UNC will create a partnership to improve water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in several low- and middle-income countries, with a long-term goal of helping to solve the global water and sanitation crisis by 2030.
Nutrition student wins research prize in national poster competition
Gina Tripicchio, doctoral student in nutrition at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, was selected as one of three winners in a research poster competition sponsored by The Obesity Society’s eHealth/mHealth section.
Kaufman, former chair of nutrition, dies at 91
Mildred Kaufman, MPH, advocate for public health nutrition and former nutrition faculty member and chair at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, passed away on Sept. 3, 2016, after several years of poor health.
UNC’s Gillings School number one public school of public health for NIH funding
September 7, 2016 Once again, the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health is the number one public school of public health when it comes to funding... Read more »
New Royster Society Fellow draws on experience in Burkina Faso
August 29, 2016 This article, by Scott Jared, was posted originally on the UNC Global website. Charlotte Lane left her heart in West Africa, but she will return to begin... Read more »
Gillings Merit Scholars and Gillings Dissertation Awards announced
August 17, 2016 Sixteen students at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have been selected as 2016-2017 recipients of Gillings Merit Scholarships or Gillings Dissertation Awards. The scholarship and... Read more »
Study finds low-income students and Hispanic students disproportionately exposed to tobacco, fast food near schools
August 1, 2016 A new study finds that low-income students and Hispanic students are disproportionately exposed to both tobacco outlets and fast-food restaurants near their schools. Easy access to tobacco... Read more »
Purchases of highly processed foods lower among African-American and Hispanic households than among white households, study finds
July 27, 2016 A new study from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health found that, compared with white households, both African-American and Hispanic households had lower total purchases... 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 »
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 »
