Tonia Poteat, PhD, MPH, a core member of the Center for Health Equity Research and Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center, and colleagues published research on delays in breast cancer care by race and sexual orientation. Tonia Poteat Tonia … Read more

Paul Delamater appeared on CBS17 to talk about county transmission in NC.

First-year college students are reporting drinking less alcohol and having fewer episodes of binge drinking four months into the coronavirus pandemic than they were before the pandemic started, according to a study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel … Read more

Although most public health initiatives to improve maternal and child nutrition are aimed specifically at moms and their children, experts are gaining a clearer picture of the role that fathers, grandparents and other family members play in feeding practices and … Read more

Faculty Fellow Audrey Pettifor was interviewed in a piece about college students and COVID.

Faculty Fellow Whitney Robinson talks about the delta variant in The Atlantic.

Faculty Fellow Tonia Poteat spoke about her research on HIV prevalence rates among transgender women in a Medical News and Perspectives piece published in the July 7, 2021 edition of JAMA.

The surveillance program, led by UNC SOM’s Dirk Dittmer, PhD, Amir Barzin, DO, and Gillings’ Audrey Pettifor, PhD, will collect, sequence, and share data on SARS-CoV-2 samples from across the state, providing real-time information on variants circulating in North Carolina. … Read more

Faculty Fellow Chantel Martin was quoted in USA Today on the US life expectancy decrease.

Faculty Fellow Kathleen Mullan Harris, the James E. Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina and Chair of the Committee on Rising Midlife Mortality Rates and Socioeconomic Disparities, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, testified before … Read more