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Fellow Avery wins Teaching Innovation Award
April 11, 2021Christy Avery, MPH, PhD, won this years’ Gillings School of Global Public Health Teaching Innovation Award. One nominator wrote “Dr. Avery has led a sustained effort to revamp Epidemiologic training to more accurately define and measure race and racism. Although … Read more
Fellow Robinson wins award from SER
April 11, 2021Whitney Robinson, MSPH, PhD, received the 2021 Noel Weiss and Tom Koepsell Excellence in Education Award from the Society for Epidemiologic Research’s (SER), which recognizes her “substantial contributions to the field of epidemiology through teaching, training and mentoring”. T. Whitney … Read more
Fellow Pettifor featured in The News & Observer
April 11, 2021Faculty Fellow Audrey Pettifor was featured in the News & Observer discussing a new trial to understand how well COVID-19 vaccines prevent people from spreading the coronavirus to others. Her work was also featured on ABC Action News.
Fellow Delamater featured in Penn LDI’s series on Vaccine Equity
April 9, 2021Faculty Fellow Paul Delamater was featured in a video interview with the University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. The interview is part of Penn LDI’s new series “COVID Vaccine Equity Research Dialogues (CoVEReD)” featuring leading national experts … Read more
Fellow Whitney Robinson appears on Marketplace
April 9, 2021Faculty Fellow and epidemiologist Whitney Robinson appeared on Marketplace to discuss her pandemic child care decisions.
Fellow Thomas quoted on PRI
March 26, 2021Faculty Fellow Jim Thomas chatted about vaccine ethics on PRI’s The World.
Fellow Yong Cai featured in Washington Post
March 8, 2021Faculty Fellow Yong Cai, who focuses on China’s birth policies, was interviewed for a recent Washington Post article about a drop in China’s birth rate.
Fellow Poteat’s HIV work highlighted
March 5, 2021Faculty Fellow Tonia Poteat recently co-authored a research paper entitled “HIV and women in the USA: what we know and where to go from here” which was published in The Lancet. From a story on these research efforts published on … Read more
Single Vaccine Dose May Offer Protection to Those Who Have Had COVID-19
March 5, 2021UNC-Chapel Hill research, led by CPC Faculty Fellow Allison Aiello, PhD, and Emily Ciccone, MD, shows that individuals previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 develop a significant antibody response to the first dose of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines. New research from UNC-Chapel Hill … Read more
Fellow Allison Aiello interviewed on NPR
March 2, 2021Faculty Fellow Allison Aiello was recently interviewed on NPR about the COVID-19 vaccine.