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Author Archives: lchensvold
Myron Cohen talks fighting infection at TEDx
Last month, the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics hosted “TEDxNCSSM” as a celebration of human achievement and experience in a wide variety of fields. IGHID director Myron Cohen was among the invited speakers, along with Flora Lichtman, correspondent … Read More
Meet Melia
Melia (on the right in the green striped shirt) works as a cleaner at the fistula care unit at Bwaila Maternity Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi. She is a very hard worker and a true inspiration for the other patients and … Read More
Photo of the Day: A New Generation of Published Scientists
Earlier this year, a group of young South African scientists gathered for an intensive manuscript writing course which is held annually for participants in the South African TB/AIDS Training Program (SATBAT). The course is led by SATBAT co-principal investigators Charlie … Read More
Posted in Africa, South Africa, Teaching
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Shining a light on UNC Global Women’s Health
Our new Global Women’s Health Division was featured in a fantastic story on ABC 11 News Last week, WTVD reporter and anchor Steve Daniels stopped by our offices, where we were hosting about 15 faculty and staff members in the … Read More
Photo of the Day: UNC on Top of the World
Well OK, it’s not Mount Everest, but 19,341 feet is nothing to sneeze about. Last week, a team of cultural influencers and clean water advocates successfully reached the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise awareness of the global clean water … Read More
Innovative approaches to improve sexual health in China (The SESH project)
[This post was sent in by Cedric Bien, a medical student at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine who is working in Guangzhou on a Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellowship awarded through UNC.] Over the past thirty years, China has … Read More
“Someone to tell them they are doing a good job”: In the field with Project ImPact
[This item originally appeared in the October 2012 issue of the UNC Center for AIDS Research newsletter. It has been shortened and edited to conform to GH Notes style] Lynn Tillery is a clinical research associate at the UNC Center … Read More
Posted in From the Field, Research, USA
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UNC AIDS research featured on WUNC-TV’s North Carolina Now
HIV prevention and cure research were the focus of this story on WUNC-TV’s North Carolina Now. Originally aired Monday, Sept. 24. Video below. Watch Monday, September 24, 2012 on PBS. See more from NC Now.
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Photo of the Day: At the NIH
On Wednesday, Sept. 19, Myron Cohen, MD, director of the Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases, delivered the annual R. E. Dyer Lecture at the National Institutes of Health. The lecture is part of the Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series, … Read More
Is there a surgeon in the country?
In an opinion piece this week in The New York Times, journalist Sarika Bansal writes about the lack of surgical care in sub-Saharan Africa. She cites some staggering statistics, among them a conservative estimate that 56 million people in sub-Saharan … Read More