Gillings School students visit RTI headquarters for annual PHield Trip
March 22, 2023 The Gillings School’s annual PHield Trip immerses students in the work of public health partners like RTI.
March 22, 2023 The Gillings School’s annual PHield Trip immerses students in the work of public health partners like RTI.
March 21, 2023 Developing an effective norovirus vaccine would be an enormous win for global health — but researchers face a major challenge in the sheer diversity of the virus.
March 21, 2023 An article published online March 14 by The Lancet Global Health explores what one researcher calls “the unfinished business of water and sanitation in rich countries.”
March 21, 2023 Researchers at UNC and Duke have found that, in 2020, more than 500,000 U.S. births occurred in Catholic hospitals, which may not provide a full range of reproductive health care. Catholic hospitals were the predominant option for delivery care in more than 10% of U.S. counties, and many had no available alternative.
March 20, 2023 Manga receives Global Engineering Award for water and sanitation work, and Platt informs Congress about tick-borne disease.
March 16, 2023 Rebecca Fry’s lab is one of the first to study the effects of prenatal exposure to toxic metals as it relates to the epigenome — she has shown how behaviors and the environment can cause changes that affect the way genes function. She launched the Institute for Environmental Health Solutions and is using funds from the Angle Professorship and the UNC Superfund Research Program, which she directs, to work with North Carolina communities that have contaminated drinking water and provide them with cost-effective filters.
March 16, 2023 Dr. Julie Kafka, a recent doctoral graduate in health behavior from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been named one of four 2023 recipients of The Graduate School's annual Dean's Distinguished Dissertation Awards.
March 14, 2023 On March 13, sixteen senators and representatives from the N.C. General Assembly met with with Gillings students, faculty and School leaders.
March 14, 2023 Dr. Wayne Rosamond is the 2023 recipient of the American Heart Association’s EPI Mentoring Award for superior mentoring in cardiovascular epidemiologic research.
March 13, 2023 Master of Public Health students Amma Agyemang-Duah and Rachel Morrow are the Gillings School’s first-ever Public Health Communications Fellows.