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Boyce Awarded Doris Duke Funding for Malaria Study in Uganda

August 8, 2021

The 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, 2021

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 on COVID-19 in NC

August 8, 2021

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

Drinking among first-year college students decreases during pandemic

August 3, 2021

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

Improving maternal and child nutrition is a family endeavor

August 2, 2021

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

Audrey Pettifor interviewed in Higher Ed Dive

August 2, 2021

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

Whitney Robinson featured in The Atlantic

August 2, 2021

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

Tonia Poteat featured in JAMA

August 2, 2021

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.

UNC to Lead $15 Million Statewide COVID-19 Surveillance Program Funded by NC Policy Collaboratory

August 2, 2021

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

Chantel Martin quoted in USA Today

August 2, 2021

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