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Kafka receives 2023 Dean's Distinguished Dissertation Award
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.
An unexpected path to reducing child abuse and neglect investigations nationwide
February 23, 2023 Increased eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has been found to reduce the number of child protective services investigations of suspected child abuse and neglect nationwide.
Turpin advises on new EPA guidance to protect communities from harmful pollution
February 17, 2023 Dr. Barbara Turpin recently served on the Particulate Matter Review Panel of the EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, which advised on new revisions to strengthen the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for fine particle pollution.
Studying the genetics of heart attacks and strokes in Hispanic populations
February 10, 2023 A $2.5 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute will allow researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill and Penn State to examine the genetic underpinnings of heart attack and stroke in Hispanic populations from across the Americas.
$3.3 million NIMH grant will fund study addressing undervaccination among people with anxiety and depression
February 9, 2023 A $3.3 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health will fund innovative new research to address high levels of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among individuals with symptoms of anxiety or depression.
HIV research in the time of COVID-19: Chunyan Li studies barriers to PrEP in Guangdong and a unique intervention
February 6, 2023 Chunyan Li is a social and behavioral researcher in the Department of Health Behavior at the Gillings School applying socially innovative and community-engaged approaches to promote public health in global settings. For her dissertation, she worked with UNC Project-China to assess barriers to PrEP in the province of Guangdong. She also tested a phone app intervention to improve HIV/sexual health care.
The Abstract: January 30, 2023
January 30, 2023 Our work has a global impact! Read about new HIV research with communities in sub-Saharan Africa, a global health workshop on air quality in Africa, and an economic report on the impact of health and science misinformation in Canada.
Gillings study shows updated bivalent boosters are more effective at preventing hospitalization and death from omicron
January 25, 2023 Researchers at the Gillings School found that bivalent boosters are more effective than original monovalent boosters at preventing COVID-19-related hospitalization and death, according to a new study in The New England Journal of Medicine.
UNC researchers to use $3 million grant to improve cervical cancer screening and treatment
December 16, 2022 The National Cancer Institute has awarded UNC researchers a five-year, $3 million grant to help develop studies to assess approaches to scalable, cost-effective screening and treatment strategies to prevent cervical cancer among women living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries and in underserved communities in the U.S.
Gillings experts emphasize health policy’s role in transgender human rights
December 13, 2022 Gillings School alumni Aoife O'Connor and Maximillian Seunik talk about their new publication that explores the ways gender-inclusive human rights laws could strengthen health care rights for trans people and other marginalized communities.
