March 5, 2014 Elizabeth (Beth) Mayer-Davis, PhD, has been appointed chair of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Department of Nutrition, effective Jan. 1. Prior to that, she... Read more »
March 4, 2014 A team of three University of North Carolina health policy and management students has won first place in the annual University of Alabama at Birmingham Health Administration... Read more »
March 3, 2014 Never underestimate your role as young people in changing our future. So proclaimed Gail Christopher, PhD, vice president of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and keynote lecturer at... Read more »
March 3, 2014 The Gillings School of Global Public Health community gathered in the Armfield Atrium on Feb. 24 to celebrate eight faculty members – one from each academic unit... Read more »
Feb. 26, 2014 Creating a vaccine that protects people from all four types of dengue virus has frustrated scientists for decades. Now, researchers at the University of North Carolina have discovered... Read more »
Feb. 26, 2014 Linda Adair, PhD, nutrition professor at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, has received the American Society of Nutrition’s Kellogg Prize for International Nutrition Research. The... Read more »
Feb. 25, 2014 A comprehensive health and lifestyle analysis of adults from a range of Hispanic and Latino origins shows that this segment of the U.S. population is diverse, not... Read more »
Feb. 17, 2014 The Gillings School of Global Public Health’s inaugural “Healthy Aging in Place through Technology” summit was held Feb. 10 at Carol Woods Retirement Community in Chapel Hill,... Read more »
Feb. 11, 2014 Safiyah Ismail, junior environmental health science major in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, will be one of 19 presenters at the TEDxUNC 2014 conference, on... Read more »
Feb. 10, 2014 Achieving widespread HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccination is one of the most profound opportunities for cancer prevention, according to a report released Feb. 10 by the President’s Cancer... Read more »
