October 19, 2021 Takhona Hlatshwako has been named UNC-Chapel Hill's 52nd Rhodes Scholar, one of the oldest and most prestigious international scholarship honors. Scholars are selected based on academic excellence, character, leadership and commitment to service.
October 19, 2021 Dr. Benjamin Mason Meier has been selected to receive the 2021 Mid-Career Award in International Health from the American Public Health Association for demonstrated achievement and commitment to international health promotion and development, as well as demonstrated creativity in expanding the concepts pertinent to the practice of public health with an international focus.
October 18, 2021 For the third consecutive year, leadership at the Gillings School has been honored with the Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine for outstanding commitment to and ongoing promotion of inclusive excellence.
October 15, 2021 Steve Cline, DDS, MPH, will act as interim director of the North Carolina Institute for Public Health, effective October 1.
October 14, 2021 Between 2015 and 2019, North Carolina saw an increase in overdose deaths that involved multiple drugs, highlighting the rapidly changing nature of drug overdoses in the state.
October 12, 2021 The Edward Kidder Graham Award recognizes distinguished service by a UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member that benefits the University, North Carolina and the United States. The 2021 award was presented to Dr. Beth Moracco, associate professor of health behavior at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and associate director of the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center.
October 12, 2021 UNC-Chapel Hill professor Dr. Ralph Baric — a world renowned coronavirus expert — has contributed to the development of life-saving vaccines and pharmaceutical treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic.
October 6, 2021 Provider recommendations are key to increasing HPV vaccination rates. A new $11.7 million research initiative, led by UNC Gillings researchers, will equip health care providers with the support necessary to communicate about HPV vaccines more effectively.
October 5, 2021 Rich Preyer and Marilyn Jacobs Preyer have donated $1 million to support the latest phase of the Carolina Breast Cancer Study at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Led by Dr. Melissa Troester, professor of epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School, the study investigates how the causes, treatments and long-term outcomes of breast cancer differ between Black women and white women.
October 1, 2021 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill research set the stage to seek emergency authorization of the first oral antiviral drug to treat COVID-19.
