Kate Westmoreland crouched in the dirt of a courtyard at the Malawi hospital. Under the shade of a tree, a mother was holding her son. He was thin, too weak to hold his head up, and had an obvious abdominal … 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

From his window at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Project-Malawi, Satish Gopal has a clear view of the cancer hospital currently under construction on the campus of Kamuzu Central Hospital. The metaphor isn’t lost on him or anyone … Read more

A new international study, co-led by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health researchers, has analyzed the associations between malaria, malnutrition and birth outcomes in women in Africa and the western Pacific between 1996 … Read more

From the moment she first learned about the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center three years ago, Chancellor Carol L. Folt has been an avid backer of the center and its mission of compassionately treating and supporting severe burn victims. The … Read more

It’s just after 6 p.m. in Lilongwe and the Chipiku Plus grocery store is crowded with people doing after work shopping. We are here to gather basics: tea, cereal, juice, a large case of bottled water. Despite the crowd, the … Read more

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol L. Folt visited UNC Project-Malawi in early June; read more about her visit and the work of UNC Project-Malawi here. UNC Project-Malawi is a global health success story. From Malawi, a landlocked … Read more

Physicians who seek to bring cancer treatments to sub-Saharan African that are available in other parts of the world are often hindered by a lack of clinical trial data showing how these treatments might help or harm patients in the … Read more

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s heelprint extends far beyond the borders of North Carolina. To better understand just how Carolina’s faculty and researchers are impacting lives around the world, Chancellor Carol L. Folt traveled almost 8,000 miles to Zambia, Malawi and Kenya.

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