The Water Institute at UNC -- adapt and thrive (Spring, 2011)
May 27, 2011 Jamie Bartram, PhD, knows it’s important to understand the impacts of droughts, floods and increasingly variable precipitation patterns. But the... Read more »
Carolina Public Health Magazine
The Water Institute at UNC -- adapt and thrive (Spring, 2011)
Clues to controlling cancer (Spring, 2011)
May 27, 2011 Mapping food deserts and tobacco hotspots School researchers use a geographic information system to map neighborhoods in three counties that lack availability of fresh food and places... Read more »
Public health research annual report (Spring, 2011)
May 27, 2011 This has been a very successful year for members of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health faculty, despite a weak economy that has resulted in... Read more »
Easing the wheezing -- asthma can be managed (Spring, 2011)
May 27, 2011 When you can’t breathe, nothing else matters much. Just ask any of the 22 million Americans — 7 percent of us — who suffer from the illness,... Read more »
Alzheimer’s disease research - awareness, education and care (Spring, 2011)
May 27, 2011 One caregiver in an education and training group led by the research team of Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, PhD, thought her mother’s memory loss was the result of worrying... Read more »
Internet search data provide timely, accurate picture of health behavior (Spring, 2011)
May 27, 2011 Between half and two-thirds of people use the Internet to find health information, studies show. Quicker and more finely tuned analysis of those searches can provide meaningful... Read more »
Clothes make the man (or woman) less tasty to ticks (Spring, 2011)
May 27, 2011 Like the flowers and blooming trees that herald spring, an unwelcome pest also reappears after the long winter — the tick. Tick-borne illnesses — including Lyme disease... Read more »
MOVE to improve veterans’ health (Spring, 2011)
May 27, 2011 More than 5 million American veterans receive health care from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Thanks to collaborations between the VA and UNC Gillings School... Read more »
Healthy hospital bottom line means healthier communities (Spring, 2011)
May 27, 2011 Rural communities with thriving hospitals may have the work of George Pink and Mark Holmes to thank. Pink, Humana Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management, and... Read more »
Reducing risks after head injuries (Spring, 2011)
May 27, 2011 For years, Steve Marshall, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology, has studied the consequences of sports injuries and how to prevent injuries to athletes and others. Partly as... Read more »