The Institute serves as a catalyst for global collaboration,
working with partners across the University of North Carolina and around the world.
Leading the response to COVID-19
At the onset of the pandemic, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases researchers sprang into action, advising and partnering with the NIH, WHO and others on a coordinated response. By August 2020, Institute clinicians and researchers were engaged in 52 research projects including national vaccine and treatment trials. Watch the video at left to learn more.
Cindy Gay, MD, on leading COVID-19 vaccine trial; Ron Falk, MD, on participating
Michelle Floris-Moore, MD, MS, talks about impact of COVID-19 on African Americans
Michael Herce, MD, MPH, MSc: ¿Por qué participar en un esayo clinico?
Big Tent, One Team:
How a multidisciplinary research partnership built to fight HIV, Ebola, and other infectious diseases turned its people, expertise, and experience to fight COVID-19
In his March 23, 2021 story in UNC’s The Well, writer Scott Jared takes a deep look at the history and accomplishments of the Institute and Division of Infectious Diseases, especially how Institute Director Myron Cohen and ID Chief Joe Eron have cultivated a Big Tent way of thinking in which professionals of varying expertise work in synch with each other. The Big Tent philosophy “has no silos,” Cohen says. “We’re all working together on problems, and we all work together very successfully.”
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2018-2020 Impact Report:
Pandemic highlights Institute’s critical role
Our abbreviated report includes updates from the Institute’s global sites, stats on the breadth and impact of our work, and a look at the COVID-19 research that our faculty launched in the spring of 2020 in reaction to the pandemic.
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Now More Than Ever, Global is Local
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Antimalarial Drug Use and Practices in Uganda
“The findings of this work are critically important and more of this type of research is desperately needed in Africa. Appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic stewardship is essential for both improving the clinical care of people and for the long term protection of these interventions from resistance resulting in treatment failure.” Jon Juliano In the remote … Continued
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I AM IGHID: Joelle Howard
Regulatory Affairs (RA) plays a critical role throughout the grant lifecycle, ensuring protocol integrity in the development of drugs and vaccines on the path to human use. Joelle Howard, who goes by Jo, joined IGHID last June. She is one of three regulatory document specialists who work across departments, schools, and countries to maintain accurate … Continued
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Investigators Discuss Their Research As New Fiscal Year Begins
Global health research is a collaborative process, and each researcher at the Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases contributes a piece to solving the puzzle of disease and morbidity. With a new fiscal year underway, read what some of our investigators are working on to improve the health of global populations. Their multi-disciplinary findings will be … Continued