Six degrees in biostatistics (Fall, 2008)
September 26, 2008 In the early 1990s, a trivia game called “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” was popular on college campuses. Based on the “small world” experiments by social psychologist... Read more »
Carolina Public Health Magazine
Six degrees in biostatistics (Fall, 2008)
Dr. Bernard G. Greenberg: a visionary leader (Fall, 2008)
September 26, 2008 It would be difficult to exaggerate the powerful impact of Dr. Bernard Greenberg’s vision and creativity upon the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and beyond.... Read more »
UNC biostatisticians make the numbers add up in biomedical research (Fall, 2008)
September 26, 2008 Since the department was established in 1949, UNC biostatisticians have been on the cutting edge of applying statistical analysis to health care issues. They laid the groundwork... Read more »
Vaccines for global health (Fall, 2008)
September 26, 2008 Single-dose vaccine for multiple respiratory viruses could save lives of infants and children in developing countries Worldwide, more than five million children under age five die each... Read more »
North Carolina mental health system improvement (Fall, 2008)
September 26, 2008 Caring for people with serious mental illness, substance abuse and/or developmental disabilities has become one of North Carolina’s greatest public health challenges. One in three North Carolina... Read more »
Gillings Innovation Labs focus interdisciplinary efforts on tough public health problems (Fall, 2008)
September 26, 2008 UNC’s Gillings Innovation Labs (GILs) bring together interdisciplinary research groups to focus concentrated efforts on solving big public health problems. They vary in topic, scope, focus and... Read more »
Anticipating public health needs; accelerating public health solutions (Fall, 2008)
September 26, 2008 The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health is working with partners across North Carolina and around the world to develop new initiatives that will accelerate solutions... Read more »
A mentor for life (Fall, 2008)
September 26, 2008 One of Dr. Gary Koch’s former students remembers tracking him down long after her graduation to ask him a statistical question. In South America at the time,... Read more »
UNC's Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center (Fall, 2008)
September 26, 2008 Controlling quality, managing data, changing the practice of medicine In 1967, a committee chaired by Dr. Bernard Greenberg, then chair of the UNC Department of Biostatistics (and... Read more »
Understanding the public (Fall, 2008)
September 26, 2008 UNC’s Survey Research Unit helps researchers collect high-quality data During his first 10 years as a biostatistics professor at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health,... Read more »