Amy Lee recently graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has traveled to Guangzhou, China, for a research coordinator position with UNC Project-China. In this post, she shares a reflection on her first week on the job. … Read more

A collaborative, international team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a multimillion dollar award to study the mental health of people in Malawi and Tanzania living with a non-communicable disease, like diabetes or hypertension. Non-communicable … Read more

Cheng Wang came to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Visiting Scholar from China. In this blog post for the UNC Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases, he reflects on how the year-long training gave … Read more

Four faculty members from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases visited the UNC Project-Vietnam in Hanoi this September. The purpose of the visit was threefold: to celebrate the successful completion of … Read more

A team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will use funds from the Gillings School of Global Public Health to test two interventions to prevent mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B virus in the Democratic Republic … Read more

Getting tested for malaria in rural parts of the globe used to mean sending a sample of blood off to a faraway lab and waiting days or weeks for results. But not anymore. Advances in the development of malaria Rapid … Read more

Malaria is a leading cause of death for children living in sub-Saharan Africa. Many children in rural areas seek care at local community health clinics, but these clinics lack reliable tests to distinguish severe and uncomplicated malaria. Working at a … Read more

Air pollution contributes to the deaths of nearly 1.6 million people a year in China, according to a 2015 study. Just this year, environmental inspectors found that 14,000 companies in China failed to meet standards for controlling air pollution. Pollution and poor urban health … Read more

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has renewed funding for the UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellows Program. This five-year grant (2017-2022) supports mentored training at 16 affiliated sites in low and middle-income countries. All are affiliated with at least one of … Read more

Faculty from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have collaborated with the Malawi Ministry of Health and Kamuzu Central Hospital since the inception of UNC Project-Malawi in 1990. UNC Project-Malawi has grown from a one-room operation into a thriving … Read more