How the world learns (Spring, 2010)
April 23, 2010 New methods and technologies transform the teacher’s role in global education The ways we access and use information have changed radically over the last decade. Thanks to... Read more »
Carolina Public Health Magazine
How the world learns (Spring, 2010)
Peers for Progress (Spring, 2010)
April 23, 2010 Fisher heads global group providing diabetes support A peer educator in Cambodia conducts weekly group sessions, offering lessons about diabetes management and advice about physical activity and... Read more »
UNC and UAE partner to protect the environment (Spring, 2010)
April 23, 2010 Rapid development in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has led to increased life expectancy and greater economic opportunity, but it also brings the potential for significant environmental... Read more »
'Team Science' advances technology (Spring, 2010)
April 23, 2010 Computational toxicology creates new ways to synthesize data How much exposure to a certain chemical is safe? What’s the right dose of a given drug? So far,... Read more »
Harnessing vast data to understand COPD and speed up new treatments (Spring, 2010)
April 23, 2010 Ten clinics in six study centers. Thousands of patients who suffer from a disease that has multiple variations. Three years’ worth of clinical and molecular data for... Read more »
Going viral (Spring, 2010)
April 23, 2010 From SARS to the common cold, Baric’s research could lead to vaccines. An issue of Carolina Public Health on innovation would be incomplete without an article on... Read more »
Flu viruses move fast -- so do public health officials preparing for pandemic (Spring, 2010)
April 23, 2010 In August 2009, two months before the first shipment of H1N1 vaccine was to arrive in North Carolina, officials with the N.C. Division of Public Health already... Read more »
No sugar-coating the crusade against obesity (Spring, 2011)
April 23, 2010 When Barry Popkin, PhD, advocates for a national tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, soft-drink makers and food-industry groups attack. “Everybody comes after me,” he says. But Popkin, an... Read more »
Bright ideas, right partners, insightful solutions (Spring, 2010)
April 23, 2010 Vaccines for diseases such as polio and smallpox, fluoridation of drinking water, prenatal care and use of vitamin A to prevent blindness all are public health innovations.... Read more »
Coca-Cola and UNC: A history of partnership (Fall, 2010)
November 29, 2010 The relationship between The Coca-Cola Company and UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health stretches back more than fifteen years. Beginning in 1994, ten years of support... Read more »