David Fuente, lead scientist for the focus areas of governance and regulation and of adaptation to climate extremes at The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and doctoral student in UNC’s Department of City and … Read more

A new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health has determined reference parameters for measuring lung capacity in non-Mexican American Hispanics. Accurate reference values for such measures are … Read more

Maximillian Seunik, who earned a Bachelor of Science in Public Health in health policy and management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2015, has completed graduate work in the first … Read more

Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health have confirmed that an experimental antiviral treatment prevents the development of SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) disease in mice. The drug, GS-5734, also inhibits MERS-CoV and … Read more

Funding from the United States President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) in 19 sub-Saharan African countries was associated with a 16 percent reduction in the annual risk of children dying before age five, according to a new study by researchers at the … Read more

A commentary by Dilshad Jaff, published online June 7 in the journal Medicine, Conflict and Survival, calls for an end to the practice of female genital mutilation/cutting in Iraqi Kurdistan. Jaff is research adviser for conflict prevention and disaster preparedness … Read more

In a systematic review of the literature, researchers from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill consider whether and how studies of migrants’ health practices and behaviors to date have considered the migrants’ transnationalism as a factor in those practices and behaviors.

Implementation science is, at its core, about solving problems. On May 4, students, faculty and researchers from across the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill came together with representatives from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa … Read more

A recent study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill identified three novel genomic regions related to hypertension susceptibility in individuals with African ancestry. While individuals of African descent suffer a disproportionate burden of hypertension and its complications, … Read more

A recent study of the experiences of deaf women seeking maternity healthcare services in Cape Town, South Africa found reports of linguistic barriers and mistreatment. Margaret W. Gichane, doctoral student of health behavior in the UNC Gillings School of Global … Read more