Gillings School of Global Public Health
IntraHealth International and UNC’s Public Health School Offer Joint Fellowship Opportunity
January 22, 2010 UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health News IntraHealth International and the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health are offering the Summer Fellows Program for current public health masters’ and doctoral students. The program is administered jointly by IntraHealth and the School’s Office of Global Health. This program provides master’s and… Read more »
Student Activities in Haiti
January 17, 2010 UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health News Jennifer Nomides is a second year Master’s student in the Health Behavior and Health Education department. She has also completed three years of medical school at the UNC School of Medicine and will return to her fourth and final year in June upon completion… Read more »
UNC and Germany’s University of Ulm Collaborate on Distance-Learning Program
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health has announced its collaboration with the University of Ulm, in Ulm, Germany, for the October 2010 launch of a distance-education master’s degree program called “@dvanced Oncology.” The curriculum of the two-year program, which includes clinical research and management, is designed for… Read more »
Montpellier Chosen for Phillips Ambassador Award
Elliot Montpellier, an environmental health science student in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been selected as a Phillips Ambassador for a summer and fall 2009 study abroad program in India. Phillips Ambassadors is a scholarship program offered through study abroad programs in the College of Arts and Sciences and Kenan-Flagler Business… Read more »
Deshpande Foundation Funds Students’ Public Health Efforts in India
Two teams of students from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have been selected by the Deshpande Foundation’s Innovators Program to lead projects in India this summer that address pressing public health needs in sanitation and reproductive health. Founded in 1996 by Gururaj (Desh) and Jaishree Deshpande, of Andover, Mass., the Foundation funds… Read more »
Public Health Entrepreneur Named “Executive in Residence” at UNC
Don Holzworth, chair of Futures Group International, has been named an “executive in residence” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. Don Holzworth, chair of Futures Group International, has been named an “executive in residence” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of… Read more »
30th UNC Minority Health Conference to Examine Online Health Education Programs
Barbara C. Wallace, Ph.D., professor of health education at Columbia University’s Teachers College, will be keynote speaker at the conference, which will be held on Friday, Feb. 27, at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education in Chapel Hill. Wallace will present the conference’s William T. Small Jr. Keynote Lecture at 9:30 a.m…. Read more »
National Library of Medicine’s Traveling Global Health Exhibit to Visit Campus
The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health will host an exhibition developed by the National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine. “Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health” will be on display Feb. 6-13 in the School’s Michael Hooker Research Center atrium. Topics addressed in the display include community health, food,… Read more »
Behets Receives Glaser Foundation Grant for AIDS Work in DRC
Frieda Behets, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology at The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has received a grant from the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation to study best practices in the fight against pediatric AIDS. Behets will work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to increase the efficacy of programs designed to… Read more »
O’Lenick Receives Fulbright Award
Cassandra O’Lenick, an environmental sciences and engineering major in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, has received a 2008-2009 U.S. Student Fulbright Program award. O’Lenick, a native of Annandale, Va., will travel to Poland and study environmental law, policy and scientific procedure. She also will study Poland’s cooperation with the European Union’s environmental policy…. Read more »