General Charge
Priorities include: planning strategic research initiatives and revenue strategies; developing early‐career faculty; enhancing the connection of research to training, teaching, service; advising on research goals, objectives and metrics; conducting grant review processes for Gillings Innovation Labs and limited‐submission opportunities; serving as a sounding board for the formulation of large research proposals; serving as “audience” for practice pitches and other strategic presentations; and providing feedback on new research information systems, communication tactics and other research tools. The Council meets 6-9 times a year and corresponds electronically to accomplish its tasks.
Membership Composition
The Associate Dean for Research and Assistant Dean for Research chair the Research Council. Other members are faculty members, one from each department, one representing internal Centers/Institutes, and one representing external Centers/Institutes.
Committee Roster
Co-Chairs
Kari North, PhD, Associate Dean for Research, Professor, Epidemiology
Alexia Kelley, PhD, Assistant Dean for Research
Members
Joe Brown, PhD, Associate Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Mark Holmes, PhD, Director and Professor, Cecil B. Sheps Center
Michael Hudgens, PhD, Professor, Biostatistics
Nora Rosenberg, PhD, Associate Professor, Health Behavior
Kyle Burger, PhD, Professor, Nutrition
Christopher Shea, PhD, Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management
Ilene Speizer, PhD, Professor, Maternal and Child Health
Melissa Troester, PhD, Director and Professor, Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility
Laura Villa Torres, PhD, MSPH, Assistant Professor, Public Health Leadership Program