March 31, 2023 A new study from Carolina researchers estimates $562 million in previously unquantified financial risks arising from property value changes and uninsured flood damages in eastern North Carolina as a result of Hurricane Florence.
March 29, 2023 Dr. Chirayath (Suchi) Madhavan Suchindran, fellow emeritus at the Carolina Population Center and professor emeritus of the Department of Biostatistics at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, passed away on Saturday, March 25, 2023.
March 24, 2023 Dr. Michael R. Kosorok has been named the 2023 recipient of the George W. Snedecor Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.
March 23, 2023 Dr. Dane Emmerling and Elana Jaffe are the recipients of the 2023 Engaged Scholarship Prizes, which honors their scholarship to address public issues, engage communities in collaborative processes that produce or apply knowledge, advance service-learning and civic engagement in higher education, and disseminate their work to a broader public.
March 22, 2023 While it might be hard to make time for exercise, incorporating physical activity can start with small tweaks in daily routines, according to Gillings School researchers, and those changes can lead to longer, healthier lives.
March 22, 2023 The Gillings School’s annual PHield Trip immerses students in the work of public health partners like RTI.
March 21, 2023 Developing an effective norovirus vaccine would be an enormous win for global health — but researchers face a major challenge in the sheer diversity of the virus.
March 21, 2023 An article published online March 14 by The Lancet Global Health explores what one researcher calls “the unfinished business of water and sanitation in rich countries.”
March 21, 2023 Researchers at UNC and Duke have found that, in 2020, more than 500,000 U.S. births occurred in Catholic hospitals, which may not provide a full range of reproductive health care. Catholic hospitals were the predominant option for delivery care in more than 10% of U.S. counties, and many had no available alternative.
March 16, 2023 Rebecca Fry’s lab is one of the first to study the effects of prenatal exposure to toxic metals as it relates to the epigenome — she has shown how behaviors and the environment can cause changes that affect the way genes function. She launched the Institute for Environmental Health Solutions and is using funds from the Angle Professorship and the UNC Superfund Research Program, which she directs, to work with North Carolina communities that have contaminated drinking water and provide them with cost-effective filters.
