Research identifies strategies to reverse obesity’s lingering, pro-cancer effects
April 22, 2018 Research from the lab of Dr. Stephen Hursting aims to reverse obesity-linked biological changes in the body associated with cancer growth. Hursting and several lab colleagues presented their findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Four UNC Gillings students named Phillips Ambassadors
April 18, 2018 Gillings School students William Keith Blanks Jr., Wei Chang, Blythe King and Julie Nguyen will represent UNC in Asia as Phillips Ambassadors.
Gillings PhD student receives Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Burcu Bozkurt, doctoral student in health policy and management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health has received a 2018 Paul and Daisy... Read more »
Study finds association of childhood abuse, neglect with misuse of prescription opioids in early adulthood
March 4, 2018 A new study by Gillings School investigators examines the association of childhood abuse and neglect with prescription opioid misuse in early adulthood-- and the role of pain and depressive symptoms in adolescence in this association. Doctoral student Anna Austin and Dr. Meghan Shanahan are study co-authors.
Health policy and management senior named Luce Scholar
March 2, 2018 Leah Everist, an undergraduate health policy and management student at the Gillings School, has been selected as a 2018 Luce Scholar by the Henry Luce Foundation. Everist will take part in a year-long internship in community preparedness and disaster response in Asia.
Epidemiology student featured in UNC IGHID report on reconciling guns and health
February 23, 2018 Doctoral student Josie Caves conducts research about intimate partner violence involving a firearm. "My research goal is to flesh out the circumstances where regulations can lower rates of violence," Caves says.
CEHS researchers introduce youngsters to science through museum lab program
February 15, 2018 Dr. Alison Singer and doctoral student Katie Mulvaney led a Jan. 20 children's workshop on pollution at the N.C. Museum of Life and Science.
Study finds self-collected specimens comparable to physician-collected specimens for STI screening accuracy
February 8, 2018 A new study in Nairobi, Kenya, found that self-collection of specimens was comparable to physician-collection for the screening of four sexually transmitted infections in a population of female sex workers.
Malone named 2018 Future Faculty Fellow
February 8, 2018 Tyler Malone, a first-year doctoral student of health policy and management at the Gillings School, has been named a 2018 Future Faculty Fellow by the UNC Center for Faculty Excellence.
Health indicators for newborns of breast cancer survivors may vary by cancer type
February 6, 2018 For breast cancer survivors, the risk of giving birth prematurely, and of other health concerns for their newborns, may depend upon the type of breast cancer they had, according to a study led by Dr. Hazel Nichols. The study was published Jan. 4 in the International Journal of Cancer.
