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UNC Global to Host Passport Drive Nov. 13-14
UNC Global will host its 16th passport drive on Wednesday, November 13 and Thursday, November 14 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in room 4003 of the FedEx Global Education Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Officials from the U.S. Department of State will be on campus both days to accept… Read more »
New Heart Attack Registry to Provide Unprecedented Insight into STEMI Occurrence, Treatment in North India
Doctor Sameer Arora, a UNC School of Medicine cardiology fellow, is leading a study reviewing hospitalizations for a certain type of heart attack in two hospitals in northern India. This is the first prospective cohort study of this magnitude in the region and is already providing unique data about opportunities to improve STEMI management in… Read more »
UNC Gillings School Launches Zambia Hub
The students, faculty and staff of the UNC Gillings School work in more than 60 countries to address urgent global health challenges. Now, with the launch of a new global hub in Zambia, they have even more opportunities to engage — and this is just the beginning. In 2019, four UNC Gillings students had summer internships… Read more »
PharmAlliance Students Speak with Former Interim Dean Thakker
The PharmAlliance communications committee for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had the privilege of interviewing Interim Dean Dhiren Thakker last spring. In our lively discussion, we talked about the creation and vision of PharmAlliance, discussed trips and interactions with our international colleagues and remarked upon the future of having a global reach… Read more »
UNC School of Medicine and Colleagues in South Africa Discover Surprise Finding About HIV and Better Therapies
Researchers led by Ron Swanstrom in the UNC School of Medicine and colleagues in South Africa discovered that the latent HIV reservoir that persists during antiretroviral treatment mostly reflects viruses present in the blood at the start of antiretroviral treatment. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) can suppress HIV to the point where the virus is nearly undetectable,… Read more »
Katherine Tumlinson from the Gillings School of Public Health Publishes on Healthcare Providers in Kenya
In some regions of sub-Saharan Africa, it’s fairly common for health care providers to be unexpectedly absent from clinical practice, which can negatively impact patient care. A new study from Katherine Tumlinson, assistant professor of maternal and child health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, shows that engaging Kenyan health care providers on… Read more »
Aunchalee Palmquist Co-Authors Breastfeeding Brief for UNICEF on Family-Friendly Work Policies
A researcher from the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contributed to a new report from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) that calls on governments and businesses to invest in family-friendly policies such as paid leave, support for breastfeeding mothers, affordable childcare and the inclusion of child… Read more »
Researched UNCovered: Anusha Chari
Anusha Chari is a professor in the Department of Economics within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences and an adjunct professor in the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. She studies how international trade and capital markets—financial systems that raise capital via shares, bonds and other investments—affect economic growth across East Asia and Latin America. Q:… Read more »
‘The Art of Resistance,’ Speaker Series
World-renowned artist Pedro X. Molina, writer Trifonia Melibea Obono, and former U.S. Ambassador Mark Asquino will address freedom of expression, artistic freedom and human rights in a fall 2019 speaker series coordinated with The Art of Resistance exhibition at the FedEx Global Education Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. About the… Read more »
World-Renowned Graphic Novelist and Political Cartoonist Visits UNC-Chapel Hill
World-renowned graphic novelist and political cartoonist Ramón Nsé Esono Ebalé visited the FedEx Global Education Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Tuesday, September 24, 2019 to celebrate and speak about his exhibition, The Art of Resistance. For over a decade, Esono Ebalé has been creating artwork that openly criticizes the… Read more »