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Boyce Awarded Doris Duke Funding for Malaria Study in Uganda
August 8, 2021The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has selected Ross Boyce, MD, as a recipient of a 2021 Clinical Scientist Development Award for his research proposal titled, “Getting malaria off the back of women and children in western Uganda.” Ross Boyce, MD … Read more
Poteat, Colleagues Publish Breast Cancer Care Research
August 8, 2021Tonia 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 on COVID-19 in NC
August 8, 2021Paul Delamater appeared on CBS17 to talk about county transmission in NC.
Drinking among first-year college students decreases during pandemic
August 3, 2021First-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
Improving maternal and child nutrition is a family endeavor
August 2, 2021Although 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
Audrey Pettifor interviewed in Higher Ed Dive
August 2, 2021Faculty Fellow Audrey Pettifor was interviewed in a piece about college students and COVID.
Whitney Robinson featured in The Atlantic
August 2, 2021Faculty Fellow Whitney Robinson talks about the delta variant in The Atlantic.
Tonia Poteat featured in JAMA
August 2, 2021Faculty 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.
UNC to Lead $15 Million Statewide COVID-19 Surveillance Program Funded by NC Policy Collaboratory
August 2, 2021The 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
Chantel Martin quoted in USA Today
August 2, 2021Faculty Fellow Chantel Martin was quoted in USA Today on the US life expectancy decrease.