Our alumni
May 5, 2014
Our club is free! All public health graduates are automatic members of the School’s Alumni Association. Our nearly 18,000 members live and work in all 100 North Carolina counties, all 50 states and more than 100 countries. The Association aims to be an engaged partner of the nation’s premier School of Global Public Health, to enhance the School and its communities as leaders in public health education, service and research – and to maximize the connections among current students and those who have come before. Learn more and get involved – email alumni.sph@unc.edu or call (919) 966-0198.
Dr. Davis Goldsmith, UNC epidemiology alumnus and adjunct associate professor of human science at Georgetown University, received a Fulbright award to serve as a visiting chair in the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Medicine. Goldsmith will study community attitudes about hydraulic fracturing and study Canadian’s access to treated water and sewage facilities.
Dr. Kelly Weidenbach, a 2013 health policy and management alumna, has been named director of the Casper-Natrona County Health Department in Casper, Wyo.
Alumnus Dr. Derrick Matthews (pictured) and doctoral student Joseph Lee found the first statewide evidence that lesbian, gay and bisexual people in N.C. have poorer health than do their straight counterparts. The study was published in the American Journal of Public Health.
Dr. Jay Bernhardt, 1999 health behavior alumnus, was named founding director of The Center for Health Communication at The University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication.
Dr. Jeanne Lambrew, health policy and management alumna, director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Health Reform, and an architect and advocate for the Affordable Care Act, accepted an alumna award from the Department of Health Policy and Management.
Dr. Marjorie Aelion, dean of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, received the 2014 Harriet Hylton Barr Distinguished Alumni Award.
Carolina Public Health is a publication of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health. To view previous issues, please visit sph.unc.edu/cph.
