‘Tips from Former Smokers’ ads connect more than half a million people to tobacco cessation resources
February 19, 2016 The question: How effective was the “Tips From Former Smokers” (Tips) television campaign at driving traffic to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Tips campaign... Read more »
Gillings student Han named 2016 Gates Cambridge Scholar
February 17, 2016 Fourth-year UNC undergraduate Larry Han is among the 35 Americans awarded scholarships in 2016 to pursue full-time graduate studies at the University of Cambridge in England. Han,... Read more »
Bentley, Silberman selected for Greenberg, Barr awards
February 16, 2016 Margaret (Peggy) Bentley, PhD, and Pam Silberman, JD, DrPH, will receive the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s prestigious Greenberg and Barr awards at a ceremony... Read more »
BIOS students win travel awards for ASA conference
February 23, 2016 Lu Mao and Jingxiang (Sean) Chen, doctoral students in biostatistics at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, have been accorded American Statistical Association (ASA) travel... Read more »
Former US Assistant Surgeon General guides the Gillings School toward a ‘culture of health’
February 13, 2016 “Every day, you should take your dog for a long walk – even if you don’t have a dog!” says Penny Slade-Sawyer, with a grin. Slade-Sawyer, a... Read more »
Peers for Progress launches rebranded resource hub
February 11, 2016 Peers for Progress believes that ongoing peer support can be a key factor in managing health. The organization hosts a website that is the go-to source for... Read more »
Law firm honors Dennis Gillings with additional support for Gillings School
February 10, 2016 In support of the work of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, and in honor of Dennis Gillings, PhD, CBE, the partners of Smith, Anderson,... Read more »
Moss, postdoctoral fellow, receives Outstanding Dissertation Award for work with HPV vaccine
February 5, 2016 Jennifer L. Moss, PhD, has been selected to receive the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s (SBM’s) Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2016. Moss is a 2015 graduate of the... 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 »
Two biostatistics students honored with Distinguished Paper Award
February 2, 2016 Biostatistics doctoral students at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have won two of 20 Distinguished Student Paper Awards accorded annually by the International Biometric Society’s... Read more »
