Monthly Archives: November 2010

Water, water everywhere

Read IGHID director Myron Cohen’s latest global health column Read More

Meshnick awarded Gates Foundation grant for innovative research

Steven Meshnick, MD, PhD, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health epidemiology professor, has received a Grand Challenges Explorations Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The $100,000 award will support an innovative global health research project titled “Development and Evaluation of the Synthetic Lymph Node.” Read More

UNC will hold 12th Annual World AIDS Day Symposium Dec. 1

November 15, 2010–The UNC Center for AIDS Research will hold its 12th Annual World AIDS Day Symposium Wednesday, Dec. 1, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Water Institute at UNC launches at international conference

October 28, 2010 — The University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health launched The Water Institute at UNC on Oct. 25, as part of the international “Water and Health: Where Science Meets Policy” 2010 conference held in Chapel Hill. Read More

Discovering “the best that can come out of you”: Charles Chasela

UNC trainee Charles Chasela, PhD has persevered despite obstacles and setbacks Read More

UNC global health featured at APHA

A wide variety of research will be presented at world’s largest public health meeting Read More

IGHID announces fifth round of Global Health Faculty Research Partnership grants

Support for Global Health Projects September 27, 2010 – The Institute for Global Health &Infectious Diseases (IGHID) and the Office of Global Health in the Gillings School of Global Public Health (OGH) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel … Read More

UNC global health programs featured at international gathering of public health professionals

UNC faculty and students will present global health research at the 138th annual American Public Health Association Meeting and Exposition, to be held Nov. 6-10 in Denver, Colorado. The nearly two dozen abstracts cover a broad range of global health … Read More