Environmental Sciences and Engineering Research
UNC’s Endeavors magazine highlights Gillings School researchers
August 18, 2016 Endeavors, the online magazine highlighting research and creative activity at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, featured six Gillings School of Global Public Health researchers... Read more »
Extending municipal water service may reduce GI illness in those who rely on private wells
June 8, 2016 A study co-authored by a researcher at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health provides new evidence that extending regulated community water service to populations currently... Read more »
Flint water crisis confirms need for improved risk management of US drinking water
May 24, 2016 Researchers at The Water Institute at UNC, based in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, have called for better leadership from utilities, greater engagement by... Read more »
Key sources of air pollution-related deaths differ among world regions
May 19, 2016 The most significant emission source sectors for global air pollution-related deaths differ among world regions, finds a new study. For example, the residential and commercial sector has... Read more »
Researchers call for collaboration to better understand how air pollution impacts health
March 30, 2016 The need to understand how air pollution affects health is greater than ever, reports a new article led by Jason West, PhD, associate professor of environmental sciences... Read more »
Seven from Gillings School receive Impact Awards; fellowships presented to other public health scholars
March 23, 2016 Students from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health earned seven of the 17 Impact Awards presented by the Graduate School in 2016. The awards, made... Read more »
Four new Gillings Innovation Labs awarded
February 29, 2016 Four teams of researchers at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have been awarded new funding for Gillings Innovation Labs (GILs), beginning this spring. The... Read more »
ESE student team awarded EPA’s ‘People, Prosperity and the Planet’ grant
February 29, 2016 A team of students working with Mark Sobsey, PhD, Kenan Distinguished Professor of environmental sciences and engineering (ESE) at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health,... Read more »
Gillings researchers describe new method of measuring performance on complex public health goals
February 4, 2016 Country-level performance on public health, human rights and international development goals is notoriously hard to measure. Recently, three researchers from the Water Institute at UNC’s Gillings School... Read more »
