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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
An interdisciplinary team of researchers and global health practitioners from North Carolina and Iraq are working to improve health services delivery to displaced Yazidi families in Iraq. Yazidis are an ethno-religious minority who have suffered extensively during armed conflicts in … Read more
A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student startup plans to revolutionize seaweed farming in temperate waters, creating jobs, reducing plastic pollution and cleaning carbon from the atmosphere along the way. Founded by Carolina undergraduate students Eliza Harrison, Lucy … Read more
Sheila Leatherman, professor of health policy and management in the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, served on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine study committee charged with looking at global issues related to quality of health care and identifying possible pathways for widespread improvement.
Aaron S. Williams, MBA, adjunct professor of health policy and management at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and longtime executive at RTI International, has been awarded “emeritus” status by RTI, in recognition of his long and distinguished … Read more
A collaboration between researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, RTI International and UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine has resulted in the first study to assess and compare United States travelers’ … Read more
