NCIPH’s Wilfert part of interdisciplinary team to examine health-care education

July 17, 2015

Dr. Rachel Wilfert

Rachel Wilfert, MD, MPH, training and technical assistance manager at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s N.C. Institute for Public Health, is a member of an interdisciplinary faculty team that has been awarded three years of funding as a Carolina Seminar on the topic, “Closing the Gap in Health-care Education.”

Wilfert and colleagues will be awarded $3,000 each year for three years, beginning in fall 2015.

Collaborators include Meg Zomorodi, PhD, RN, clinical associate professor and Josiah Macy Jr. Faculty Scholar in the UNC School of Nursing; Lisa Zerden, PhD, visiting faculty member and special assistant to the School of Social Work’s assistant dean for student affairs; and Julie Byerly, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics and vice dean for education at the School of Medicine.

The team, with additional faculty members from the UNC schools of social work, medicine, nursing, pharmacy and public health, will launch a new interprofessional population health course in fall 2015.

“We are very pleased to receive a Carolina Seminars award to expand the discussions on our campus around the role of interprofessional training in preparing the health-care workforce of the future,” Wilfert said.