From Currituck to Cherokee (Spring, 2009)
May 08, 2009 NCIPH serves all 100 N.C. counties The North Carolina Institute for Public Health (NCIPH) is the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s special link to the... Read more »
Carolina Public Health Magazine
From Currituck to Cherokee (Spring, 2009)
Art initiates life (Spring, 2009)
May 08, 2009 Student project grows into service initiative for refugee children from Burma The seed was planted in a college medical sociology class when Meg Ellenson read a book... Read more »
Let them eat fruits and vegetables! (Spring, 2009)
May 08, 2009 Locally grown produce good for economy, environment, health Alice Ammerman believes so strongly in the health and economic benefits of eating fresh produce grown by local farmers... Read more »
A passion for protecting children (Spring, 2009)
May 08, 2009 Dr. Jonathan Kotch speaks out for the most vulnerable When Dr. Jonathan Kotch sees things he doesn’t like, he takes action. He protested the Vietnam War. He... Read more »
Students pitch in to see if water is clean enough to drink (Spring, 2009)
May 08, 2009 Not all of the projects taken on by the Daniel A. Okun Chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) require its members to travel to far-flung places to... Read more »
Spreading the health (Spring, 2009)
May 08, 2009 Students volunteer time, expertise to provide water near and far By Ryan Kingsbury President, Daniel A. Okun Chapter Engineers Without Borders For more than five years, a... Read more »
Awards and Recognitions (Fall, 2009)
September 14, 2009 FACULTY Halpern receives Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring Carolyn Halpern, PhD, associate professor of maternal and child health at the UNC Gillings School of Global... Read more »
Getting more "health," less "sickness" into marriage vows (Fall, 2009)
June 10, 2009 It’s June, the month when many couples promise to stay together “in sickness and in health.”But research shows both men and women tend to gain weight right... Read more »
HPM students’ research contributes to Mississippi legislation (Fall, 2009)
September 14, 2009 A team of UNC health policy and management graduate students helped convince the Mississippi state legislature to require communities around the state to fluoridate their water. The... Read more »
UNC study: new approach promises greater success for predicting drug safety (Fall, 2009)
September 14, 2009 Adverse reactions to drugs are one of the leading causes of death in the United States. However, there may be a way to predict which people are... Read more »