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Rusyn to serve on new NRC committee to recommend framework for safer chemical...
Ivan Rusyn, MD, PhD, professor of environmental sciences and engineering at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been named to the National Research Councils committee, Design and...
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Gordon-Larsen elected to lead The Obesity Society
Penny Gordon-Larsen, PhD, professor of nutrition at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been elected vice president of The Obesity Society, the leading scientific organization dedicated...
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Reducing greenhouse gases benefits air quality, saves lives
A new study finds that reducing greenhouse gas emissions key to slowing global climate change also will decrease outdoor air pollution and may save the lives of more than two million people...
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Baric leads study of deadly new respiratory coronavirus
Adaptation is the secret to survival, so living organisms learn to be quick on their proverbial pseudopods. A virus skills in adapting and reproducing, however, can be lethal for its animal and human...
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Bellagio Declaration asks for protection from Big Food, Big Soda lobbying
Public health and nutrition scientists are calling for greater efforts to protect healthy food policies from being undermined by the lobbying forces of multinational food corporations, or Big Food...
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FDA, NIH award $20M grant to create UNC Center for Regulatory Research on...
Although cigarette use has declined among Americans, regulators face the challenge of communicating the dangers of new tobacco products along with reaching smokers in diverse communities who may not...
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Eight students receive Class of 2013 scholarships
The Gillings School of Global Public Healths class of 2013 presented eight scholarships to current students at an alumni event at the School on Sept. 11. More than $10,000 was collected for the...
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Blogs: an untapped resource for educating about smoking-related health risks...
A new study by a Gillings School of Global Public Health doctoral student examined lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) blogs and found they spent little or no cyberspace addressing one of...
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Cohens Fogarty grant will help train Chinese health workers to prevent,...
Myron Cohen, MD, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Healths Fogarty International Center to train medical personnel in southern China to prevent and treat sexually transmitted...
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NCIOM task force addresses early childhood obesity
Researchers from the Gillings School of Global Public Health participated this week in a task force convened by the N.C. Institute of Medicine to develop strategies targeting obesity in children from...
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Baric to lead $10 million NIH grant to examine how deadly viruses replicate...
A team of researchers at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Wisconsin has received a National Institutes of Health grant for more than $10 million to study the...
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NIH-funded project will investigate genetic susceptibilities in minority...
Kari North, PhD, has received a four-year, $3.1 million National Institutes of Health grant that aims to uncover connections between genetic variants and some of the complex diseases that affect...
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High school football programs not using most effective heatstroke management...
Despite their awareness of the dangers of heatstroke, trainers in most high school football programs still do not employ the most effective measures to manage the condition. These are the findings of...
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Study evaluates capability of emergency medical services to care for stroke...
What happens in the back of an ambulance can save a life. The skills of emergency medical services (EMS) technicians and how quickly and well they employ best practices can be critical to a...
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Westreich, Pence and Powers join epidemiology faculty
The Gillings Schools Department of Epidemiology has recruited three new tenure-track faculty members who specialize in infectious diseases. They are Daniel Westreich, PhD (effective May 1), Brian...
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Study finds genetic link in high blood pressure for African-Americans
Research led by a scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has identified genes linked to high blood pressure in individuals of African ancestry. The study, Genome-wide association...
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Ammerman leads Food Explorers in NC schools, helps kids choose healthy...
A research team led by Alice Ammerman, DrPH, professor of nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has instituted a new program this fall called Food Explorers, a social marketing...
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Moderate physical activity does not increase risk of knee osteoarthritis,...
A new study finds that adults age 45 and older who engaged in moderate physical activity up to 2.5 hours per week did not increase their risk of developing knee osteoarthritis over a six-year...
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Survey of adolescent males and their parents shows low HPV vaccination rates
Encouraging physicians to recommend human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to adolescent boys and their parents and educating the boys and their families about the importance of receiving the vaccine ...
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Alumnus Richards takes new position at CDC, will give keynote at Schools...
Chesley Richards, MD, MPH, alumnus of the Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been appointed director of the Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services at the U.S. Centers...
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