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Gazette features Bentleys research on infants television exposure
This article, featuring research by Dr. Peggy Bentley, was written by Mark Derewicz, in the UNC Office of Research Communications. It appeared in the Feb. 13 issue of University Gazette. Bentley is...
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Former ambassador to Uganda visits Chapel Hill to learn about UNCs work in...
Jerry P. Lanier, principal deputy coordinator for the U.S. Department of States Bureau of Counterterrorism, met with public health and other leaders on The University of North Carolina campus in...
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Study validates weight loss program, brings weight loss research into the...
Weight management programs that focus on behavior change can be effective in leading to weight loss, but most are done in controlled settings. As a result, it is often difficult to know whether the...
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Pignone chosen for U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Michael Pignone, MD, MPH, adjunct professor of health behavior at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been appointed to the U.S....
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ESE students win top three spots at toxicology poster competition
Nour Abdo, Julia Rager and Jessica Wignall, students at Gillings School of Global Public Health, captured the top three awards in a poster competition held at the spring meeting of the North Carolina...
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Synthetic marijuana use results in acute kidney injury, MMWR reports
An article in the Feb. 15 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) describes 16 cases in the U.S. in which acute kidney injury followed a persons ingestion of synthetic cannabinoids. Kelly...
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Sumner, physician and PHLP student, dies Jan. 4
Brian Montgomery Sumner, MD, Master of Public Health student in the Public Health Leadership Program (PHLP) at Gillings School of Global Public Health, died in an accident in Costa Rica on Jan. 4. He...
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Holmes selected as Journal of Rural Health board chair
Mark Holmes, PhD, assistant professor of health policy and management at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been elected chair of the editorial board of The Journal of Rural Health. He...
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Mojica, nutrition adjunct, wins international associations Silver Plate Award
Angelo Mojica, MPH, RD, director of nutrition and food services at UNC Health Care and adjunct instructor of nutrition at Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been named the International...
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Genes that control nervous system development play a role in gum disease
By simultaneously investigating millions of gene variants in more than 5,000 individuals, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveal that genes responsible for nervous...
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Alumnus Burdine appointed interim dean of Texas public health school
James N. Burdine, DrPH, alumnus of the Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been named interim dean of the Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAMHSC) School of Rural Public Health. Burdine,...
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Alumna Millie Jones elected AMCHP president
Millie J. Jones, MPH, has been elected president of the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs board of directors. AMCHP is a national resource, partner and advocate for state public...
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Baylor, School alumna, selected as APHA congressional fellow
Barbara V. Taylor Baylor, MPH, alumna of Gillings School of Global Public Health at The University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, has been selected as an American Public Health Association 2013...
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Genomic screening to detect preventable rare diseases in healthy people
Millions of people unknowingly carry rare gene mutations that place them at high risk of developing preventable diseases such as colorectal and breast cancers and several catastrophic blood vessel...
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Reese, MCH doctoral student, wins SAHM development award
Bianka Reese, doctoral student in maternal and child health at Gillings School of Global Public Health, has won the 2013 Career Development Award in Adolescent Health from the Society for Adolescent...
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HPM team places first in UABs national case competition
Its a sweep! For the third time this academic year, a student team from Gillings School of Global Public Healths health policy and management department has brought home first prize in a national...
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Study: Sludge-based fertilizer may be causing human illnesses
Treated municipal sewage sludge that is, the solids from sewage treatment may be causing illness in people up to a mile from where the sludge is spread on land. Those are the findings of...
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Alumnus Wiesman appointed as Washington State Health Secretary
John Wiesman, DrPH, Gillings School of Global Public Health alumnus, has been appointed to serve as Washington states Secretary of Health. Gov. Jay Inslee made the announcement on March 12. Wiesman...
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Valle, postdoctoral fellow, wins SBMs outstanding dissertation award
Carmina Valle, PhD, has been selected to receive the Society of Behavioral Medicine Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2013. Valle, a December 2012 graduate of the Gillings School of Global Public...
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Two student groups win Gillings Student Organization Service Project Awards
Two student endeavors focused on environmental sciences initiatives have won the Gillings School of Global Public Health 2013 Gillings Student Organization Service Project Award. The projects were...
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