Thomas awarded AHRQ grant for dissertation research on diabetes
October 30, 2018
Doctoral candidate Tainayah Thomas was awarded a grant for $18,162 toward completing her dissertation research on diabetes.
Students win Kenan-Flagler Healthcare Case Competition
October 29, 2018 Three health policy and management students at the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health won first prize in the second annual 2018 UNC Healthcare Case Competition, hosted by the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Healthcare Club on Oct. 26-27 in Chapel Hill.
Health policy and management team wins third place at NAHSE case competition
October 21, 2018
Ruben Joseph, Whitney Okie and Gina Thompson represented the Gillings School with a third-place win at the 23rd annual Everett V. Fox Student Case Competition, held Oct. 10-12 in Orlando, Fla.
Doctoral students receive NIDA dissertation awards
October 21, 2018 Jessica Young and Sara Levintow, epidemiology doctoral students, have each received two-year R36 dissertation awards from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to support completion of their doctoral dissertation research projects in the field of drug use research.
Researchers examine relationship of campus policies to prevalence of campus sexual assault
October 21, 2018
An interdisciplinary team led by researchers at the Gillings School explored the critical issue of campus sexual assault in their article, "Starting the Conversation: Are Campus Sexual Assault Policies Related to the Prevalence of Campus Sexual Assault?" The work will be included in a special November issue of the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Photo by Angel Leon.
For teens with Type 1 diabetes, lower socioeconomic status is linked with higher rates of obesity
October 4, 2018
Approximately 36 percent of adolescents with Type 1 diabetes are overweight or obese. A recent study found that, especially among females in this population, markers of lower socioeconomic status may be associated with higher body fat in the first decade following diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes.
Student startup to combat global warming with seaweed
September 13, 2018 UNC undergraduates Lucy Best, Emily Kian and Eliza Harrison (an ESE student) make up team Phyta, a seaweed cultivation initiative hoping to win the prestigious Hult Prize.
Law intended to increase access to behavioral health care had little impact, study finds
September 8, 2018 A 2008 law that required insurance plans to offer mental health and addiction benefits at the same level as physical health benefits did not significantly reduce out-of-pocket spending on outpatient behavioral health services or increase their use, according to new research.
Study demonstrates benefits among people living with HIV who inject drugs
September 5, 2018 Gillings School researchers are part of an international team reporting promising findings related to the prevention of HIV transmission among people who are HIV-positive and use injectable drugs and their partners. The key findings of HPTN 074, part of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN), were published Aug. 30 in The Lancet.
Former inmates at high risk for opioid overdose following prison release
July 19, 2018 A recent study in North Carolina found that, in the first two weeks after being released from prison, former inmates were 40 times more likely to die of an opioid overdose than someone in the general population.
