December 1, 2015 Sheila Leatherman, research professor of health policy and management at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been named lead adviser for a new unit... Read more »
Physician uses epidemiology training to fight parasitic diseases in Mali December 1, 2015 Earning a medical degree from the University of Bamako in Mali was only the beginning for Moussa... Read more »
December 1, 2015 When patients with mental health needs cannot be properly treated through outpatient or general hospital care, state psychiatric hospitals act as the ultimate safety net. These state... Read more »
December 1, 2015 A recent study co-led by researchers from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health found that after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) added a black-box... Read more »
November 30, 2015 Dilshad Jaff, MD, MPH, research adviser for conflict prevention and disaster preparedness at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Gillings Global Gateway™, served as a... Read more »
November 24, 2015 A recent study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that activity trackers (e.g. Fitbits) may be a valuable tool for... Read more »
November 24, 2015 A new study has found that high intake of dietary phosphorus, relative to calcium intake, is associated with a lower calcium to phosphorus ratio overall. When this... Read more »
November 19, 2015 Alexandra Lightfoot, EdD, received the 2015 Tom Bruce Award at a Nov. 3 meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA). The Community-Based Public Health (CBPH) Caucus,... Read more »
November 17, 2015 Blog post from Hillary Murphy, Master of Public Health student in the Department of Health Behavior: In summer 2015, I found myself unexpectedly working in sub-Saharan Africa... Read more »
November 16, 2015 Students from UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health authored four of the seven epidemiology abstracts selected from 127 submissions for presentation at the 2015 Obesity Week... Read more »
