PHLP students plan, present public health exhibits at the UNC Science Expo
April 18, 2016 Where can you find healthy vegetable and beverage recipes, learn how to lift a box without injuring your back and figure out how vaccinations work? Why, at... Read more »
Gillings to present School’s commencement address on May 7
April 18, 2016 Dennis Gillings, PhD, CBE, will present the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s commencement address on Saturday, May 7 at 1 p.m. in Carmichael Arena. A... Read more »
Two from Gillings School elected as delegates to UNC Employee Forum
April 15, 2016 Two staff members from the Gillings School of Global Public Health have been elected to the UNC Employee Forum. As staff delegates, Bryan Andregg and Natiaya Neal... Read more »
NIH extends funding for Nutrition Obesity Research Center through second decade
April 13, 2016 The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) will receive a $5.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund another five years of research.... Read more »
Older black women insured by Medicare receive targeted breast cancer treatment at low rate
April 13, 2016 The advent of targeted drugs for a specific type of breast cancer – HER2 positive –dramatically has improved survival rates for women with the disease. However, a... Read more »
Two studies address link between obesity and basal-like breast cancer
April 7, 2016 Recent work from the laboratory of Liza Makowski, PhD, assistant professor of nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, explores two possibilities for breaking... Read more »
Community-academic research partnership analyzes focus groups to examine race-specific inequities in cancer treatment
April 7, 2016 A recent publication co-authored by two researchers from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health shares lessons learned from a focus group analysis that examined inequities... Read more »
Study finds no evidence that phthalates are responsible for increased childhood obesity
April 6, 2016 Jessie Buckley, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology, was featured in the “Science Selection” section of... Read more »
How collaborations are advancing gender-based violence research and training at UNC
April 5, 2016 An article by Jessica Porter, published April 5 in Endeavors, describes the involvement of UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health researchers in the UNC Gender-Based Violence... Read more »
Gillings student publishes guidelines to improve reporting on mHealth interventions
April 5, 2016 A new paper led by a student researcher at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health proposes guidelines to improve the quality of reported research on... Read more »
