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Carolyn Halpern

Building upon foundational leadership in maternal and child health

June 4, 2024
At the end of July, the Gillings School will bid farewell to retiring chair of maternal and child health Dr. Carolyn Halpern. Her legacy includes the hiring of new tenure-track and tenured faculty who are tackling important issues of maternal and child health equity. 

Maternal and child health faculty receive joint innovative teaching award

March 20, 2020
Four faculty members in the Department of Maternal and Child Health have received an Innovative Teaching Award from the Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health to develop a new course on implementation research and practice for the Master of Public Health concentration in Maternal, Child and Family Health.

Study links racial disparities, maternal substance use with CPS reporting rates in Alaska

August 9, 2019
In 2016, child protective services (CPS) agencies in the United States received an estimated 4.1 million allegations of abuse or neglect. Previous research suggests that a report made to CPS is a marker of child risk and vulnerability — regardless of what the outcome is. A new study delves deeper into this connection from a public health perspective, analyzing the factors associated with different patterns of CPS contact among families in Alaska.