To Dan Namarika, the opening of Malawi’s first National Cancer Center is a dream realized. “I wanted to see this center built during my lifetime,” he said. “For Malawians, this is something we’ve been wanting. It’s the first of its … Read more

Teaching science in a high school in eastern North Carolina taught Liz Chen valuable public health lessons. She noticed teens were constantly on their cell phones. She also noticed many of the teenage girls were pregnant. Now with a master’s … Read more

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a five-year $1.2 million grant to support training Nicaraguan researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of Nicaragua, León (UNAN-León). The Nicaraguan Emerging and Endemic … Read more

Emily Gower is an associate professor in epidemiology and ophthalmology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her international research focus involves improving trichiasis surgery outcomes for people with trachoma, the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. In … Read more

Celeste A. Brown is a fourth-year medical student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and will begin her residency in obstetrics-gynecology at Carolina in June. Celeste traveled to Tanzania and Mozambique for a one-month emergency medicine rotation, … Read more

Joseph Tucker, assistant professor in the UNC School of Medicine and director of UNC Project-China, was part of the panel on social entrepreneurship at the annual conference of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health on March 16, 2018, in New York.

When doctor of nursing practice student Brittany Alexander sat down to pen an assigned op-ed for her political advocacy class, she tried to write about a topic from her work treating patients at the University of North Carolina at Chapel … Read more

People who inject drugs (PWID) in Vietnam are disproportionately affected by HIV. While HIV prevalence among the general population aged 15-49 is 0.4 percent, the prevalence of HIV among people who inject drugs is a staggering 11 percent, according to … Read more

Tamiwe Tomoka is Malawi’s first female pathologist. She discusses what attracted her to this field, the many hats she wears at UNC Project-Malawi and how she handles being a role model. Q: What attracted you to the field of pathology? … Read more

In each of the past 22 years, Don Budenz has gone to Ghana – first right after his fellowship training and now as chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and founder … Read more