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Seed grants tackle key environmental health challenges
September 20, 2024The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and Triangle-area nonprofit research organization RTI International leveraged their shared expertise to tackle important challenges related to health and the environment.
UNC Gillings School puts a global focus on water and health
December 1, 2023 Today more than 2 billion people worldwide live without access to safely managed drinking water and more than 3 billion live without safely managed sanitation services. The Water and Health Conference, hosted by the Water Institute at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, marshals global collaboration to address the world’s drinking water and sanitation challenges.
Strategic planning retreat explores financial loss and uncertainty amid environmental events
November 14, 2022 The UNC Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems (CoFiRES) held its sixth annual Strategic Planning Retreat at the Morehead Planetarium on Oct. 14. CoFiRES is a partnership between the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and UNC’s Institute for the Environment, which seeks to quantify the financial losses associated with extreme environmental events, such as droughts, floods, heatwaves and hurricanes.
Highlighted Leaders in the Field
Other Leaders in the Field
Louise Margaret Ball, PhD | Professor, Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies (Retired) | |
Margaret (Peggy) Bentley, MA, PhD | Distinguished Professor Emerita | |
Wanda Bodnar, PhD | Assistant Professor | |
Gregory Characklis, PhD | W. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor | |
Stephen R. Cole, PhD | Professor | |
Orlando Coronell, PhD | Professor and Associate Chair for Academics | |
Julie L. Daniels, PhD | Professor | |
Radhika Dhingra, PhD | Adjunct Assistant Professor | |
Kathleen Dorsey, PhD | Associate Professor | |
Lawrence S. Engel, PhD | Professor | |
Claudia S. Plaisted Fernandez, DrPH | Professor | |
Michael B. Fisher, PhD | Assistant Professor | |
Avram Gold, PhD | Professor | |
Noah Kittner, PhD | Assistant Professor | |
Danyu Lin, PhD | Dennis Gillings Distinguished Professor | |
Kun Lu, PhD | Professor | |
Leena Nylander-French, PhD, CIH | Professor | |
Aunchalee E. L. Palmquist, PhD, MA, IBCLC | Adjunct Associate Professor | |
Barry M. Popkin, PhD | W. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor | |
Julia Rager, PhD | Assistant Professor | |
Aaron Salzberg, PhD | Jennifer and Don Holzworth Distinguished Professor | |
Marc Serre, PhD | Associate Professor | |
Richard Smith, PhD | Professor | |
Jill Stewart, PhD | Adjunct Professor | |
Delisha Stewart, PhD | Assistant Professor | |
William Vizuete, PhD | Professor | |
Saroja Voruganti, PhD | Associate Professor | |
Howard Weinberg, PhD | Professor | |
Jason West, PhD | Professor | |
Dale Whittington, PhD | Professor | |
Courtney G. Woods, PhD | Associate Professor | |
Zhenfa Zhang, PhD | Associate Professor | |
Fei Zou, PhD | Professor |