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 »

Improved Training Would Help Meet UN’s Ambitious Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Goals

Researchers and institutions engaged in efforts surrounding water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) may lack the information and resources they need to meet the United Nations’ ambitious Sustainability Development Goal (SDG) for water and sanitation. New research from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health could benefit the WaSH community by engaging multiple parties to… Read more »

Study Identifies Complex Network of Factors Impeding Health System Reform in Iraqi Kurdistan

New research from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health offers the first comprehensive research to identify factors that have inhibited the growth of a sustainable health care system in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR), a deficit that has placed the region’s people at risk for worsening health outcomes. Dilshad Jaff, program coordinator for… Read more »

Gillings School Researchers Explore Results of Mexican Sugary-Drink Tax

Households in Mexico that regularly purchased high quantities of sugar-sweetened beverages purchased significantly fewer of those beverages after a 2014 excise tax was implemented, a finding which shows the tax is having a positive impact on the country’s public health, particularly among those who have the least healthful habits. UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global… Read more »

Parents, Providers in Five Countries Approve of New Two-Dose HPV Vaccination

In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) revised its recommended dosing schedule for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination from three doses to two doses for adolescents ages 14 and under. Mothers of and health care providers for adolescent girls in five countries preferred the two-dose HPV vaccination schedule, according to new research published October 4 in Cancer… Read more »

Gillings School Faculty Presents Keynote Address at Global Leadership Council

Jamie Bartram, Don and Jennifer Holzworth Distinguished Professor of environmental sciences and engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health and director of The Water Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill, was a keynote speaker at the Oct. 4 meeting of the UNC Global Leadership Council. Bartram was recognized,… Read more »