Suzanne Maman Elected Faculty Director of Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center

Suzanne Maman, professor in the health behavior department at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and co-leader of the Master of Public Health global health concentration, has been named the new UNC faculty director at the Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center.

On San Cristóbal Island in the Galápagos, Lack of Fresh Food Contributes to Obesity

A new study from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health provides insight into the food landscape and nutrition-related behaviors on San Cristóbal Island in the Galápagos Islands, adding to ongoing research on the global nutrition transition and related changes in diet and lifestyle that lead to obesity and chronic disease.

Research Shows Women Can Spread Zika Virus to Sexual Partners for up to Six Months After Infection

Women who are infected with the Zika virus potentially can spread the virus to sexual partners for up to six months after infection. This finding prolongs the period of time following acute infection that the virus was known to be present in vaginal secretions. Sylvia Becker-Dreps, associate professor in the department of epidemiology at the UNC… Read more »

Chinese Herb May Be a Natural Method of Treating Diabetes

The traditional Chinese herb Lycii Cortex (LyC), with its powerful compound kukoamine B, could be an effective nutraceutical choice for lowering blood glucose when used alone or in combination with low doses of first-line diabetes medications. YuanYuan Li, a postdoctoral researcher at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, is lead author of the… Read more »

Biomedical Scientists Begin to Make Patient Perspectives a Priority in HIV Research

Monitoring the psychosocial experiences of people living with HIV is a key recommendation for conducting clinical trials where participants will have interruptions in antiretroviral therapy (ART). This new development is influenced in part by the contributions of a social scientist at the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health. Karine Dubé, assistant professor in the… Read more »

Gillings School Hosts Innovative Event for First-Time Student Hackers

Graduate and undergraduate students from more than 10 universities gathered at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health Feb. 16–17 for the 2019 Pearl Hacks, a weekend-long hackathon for female and nonbinary students. The event, in its fifth year, was an opportunity for more than 250 like-minded students to network, form small teams and imagine… Read more »

Gillings School Faculty Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award by UK University

Jamie Bartram, Don and Jennifer Holzworth Distinguished Professor of environmental sciences and engineering at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and director of the School’s Water Institute at UNC, has been selected for a Lifetime Achievement Award by leaders at his alma mater, the University of Surrey, in Guildford, Surrey, U.K. Bartram earned bachelor’s and… Read more »

Rural South African Children Exposed to Violence Are More Likely to Be Victims, Perpetrators as Adults

In rural South Africa, children who experience violence are more likely as an adult to not only experience sexual violence and interpersonal violence (IPV) but also perpetrate IPV. Sarah Treves-Kagan, doctoral candidate in health behavior at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, is the author of “Sexual and Physical Violence in Childhood Is… Read more »

National Institutes of Health Continues Funding for Landmark Study of Latinx Health in the U.S.

The UNC Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center, based in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s biostatistics department, has been awarded a seven-year, $23 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). The historic study is the largest-ever prospective epidemiological study of this diverse… Read more »

Kybele-Ghana Receives Award to Improve Maternal Care

Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenges Canada has awarded the nonprofit organization Kybele-Ghana $491,480 to scale up an innovative triage system to high-risk obstetric hospitals. Funds matched by other contributors will bring the two-year award to $984,069. Rohit Ramaswamy, professor in the Public Health Leadership Program and in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the UNC… Read more »