The Global Women’s Health Division of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received new grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a collection of studies to be … Read more

For Shamira Lukomwa, working in Africa is personal. It was this passion that led Lukomwa to take what she learned as a double major in global studies and communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to … Read more

Thanks to the UNC Radiology Malawi Program, faculty and students at the UNC School of Medicine have been making strides to provide sustainable radiology technology to Lilongwe, Malawi. The program exists to provide radiologist support; technologist and radiographer education; development for working … Read more

By formal training, Anthony Charles is a trauma surgeon. By experience, he’s a diplomat. Charles leads the Malawian Surgical Initiative, a partnership between the Department of Surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi, and the Malawi College … Read more

A six-year grant by World Vision to the Water Institute at UNC will create a partnership to improve water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in several low- and middle-income countries, with the long-term goal of helping to solve the global water and sanitation crisis by 2030. … Read more

As far back as 10,000 years ago, the San Bushmen — some of South Africa’s earliest hunters and gatherers — practiced a cultural tradition of carving images into small boulders. Some, perhaps those new to the craft, would use a … Read more