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.

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.

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

This June, doctoral student Karar Zunaid Ahsan will visit Lilongwe, Malawi, to kick off a year of service as a Policy Communication Fellow.

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more