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.
November 30, 2023 Staff and faculty from the Gillings School are providing representation on important opportunities, challenges and needs for UNC employees through organizations within the Gillings School and the University at large.
With funds from the American Rescue Plan Act, NCIPH leads programs that build a stronger public health workforce.
November 29, 2023 New Gillings-led research found that most studies in two prominent epidemiology journals treat race and ethnicity as confounding variables – a practice that can mask the complex connection between systemic racism and health effects.
November 20, 2023 A comparative effectiveness clinical trial will expand from the Southeast to include two sites in Illinois.
November 20, 2023 Developed in partnership with SciVida, the first-of-its-kind database lays the groundwork for READDI’s pipeline of broad-spectrum pandemic drugs.
November 14, 2023 Dr. Jason West is lead author on the chapter on air quality in the new Fifth National Climate Assessment, which highlights opportunities to coordinate actions that address both climate change and air quality simultaneously.
November 16, 2023 Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as "forever chemicals" were found in indoor air and cloth material in a newly published study.
November 15, 2023 Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their field(s) of research and have greatly extended the frontiers of knowledge to make the world healthier, more sustainable and more secure.
November 13, 2023 READDI Inc. is de-risking the earliest stages of drug development to bridge a gap so treacherous it’s known as the “Valley of Death.”
