Research in the Field of Air, Water and Climate Resilience

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.

Can sustainable plastics clean our plastic-polluted water?

April 21, 2022
UNC researchers across disciplines are harnessing the power of a new plastic to remove pollutants from drinking water. Their work just got a significant boost from the state legislature.


Highlighted Leaders in the Field

Other Leaders in the Field

Louise Margaret Ball, PhDProfessor, Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies
Margaret (Peggy) Bentley, MA, PhDDistinguished Professor Emerita
Wanda Bodnar, PhDAssistant Professor
Gregory Characklis, PhDW. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor
Stephen R. Cole, PhDProfessor
Orlando Coronell, PhDAssociate Professor and Associate Chair for Academics
Julie L. Daniels, PhDProfessor
Radhika Dhingra, PhDAdjunct Assistant Professor
Kathleen Dorsey, PhDAssociate Professor
Karine Dubé, DrPHAssistant Professor
Lawrence S. Engel, PhDProfessor
Claudia S. Plaisted Fernandez, DrPHProfessor
Michael B. Fisher, PhDAssistant Professor
Avram Gold, PhDProfessor
Noah Kittner, PhDAssistant Professor
Danyu Lin, PhDDennis Gillings Distinguished Professor
Kun Lu, PhDAssociate Professor
Leena Nylander-French, PhD, CIHProfessor
Aunchalee E. L. Palmquist, PhD, MA, IBCLCAdjunct Associate Professor
Barry M. Popkin, PhDW. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor
Julia Rager, PhDAssistant Professor
Aaron Salzberg, PhDJennifer and Don Holzworth Distinguished Professor
Marc Serre, PhDAssociate Professor
Richard Smith, PhDProfessor
Jill Stewart, PhDPhilip C. Singer Distinguished Professor
Delisha Stewart, PhDAssistant Professor
William Vizuete, PhDProfessor
Saroja Voruganti, PhDAssociate Professor
Howard Weinberg, PhDProfessor
Jason West, PhDProfessor, Director of Graduate Studies
Dale Whittington, PhDProfessor
Courtney G. Woods, PhDAssociate Professor
Zhenfa Zhang, PhDAssociate Professor
Fei Zou, PhDProfessor
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