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Stringer Receives 2025 O. Max Gardner Award

May 16, 2025
Dr. Jeffrey Stringer, the Clarke-Pearson Distinguished Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and associate director for research at the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, has received the 2025 Oliver Max Gardner Award for his transformative work in maternal healthcare in low-resource settings around the world. Established by the will...

Juliano Named Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor

May 15, 2025
Jonathan Juliano, MD, MSPH, DTM&H, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been honored with the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professorship. Effective July 1, 2025, this prestigious distinction recognizes outstanding contributions and...

UNC’s Long History of Service to North Carolina’s Prison Population: A New HIV Program Focuses On Post-Release

May 12, 2025
For more than two decades, UNC’s infectious disease specialists have provided HIV care to incarcerated individuals across North Carolina’s prison system. Dr. Becky White is the director of UNC Infectious Diseases and HIV Services in the N.C. Department of Adult Corrections. Dr. Lina Rosengren-Hovee is the associate director. In the following,...

UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases Awarded Ryan White C Funding Renewal

May 12, 2025
The UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases has received a three-year renewal of award funding for the Ryan White Part C Program, from the U.S. Department of Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Natalie Hairston, MPH, MSW, UNC’s Ryan White Program Coordinator since 2023, provided critical support to...

New Cross-Disciplinary ID Service Will Reduce Burden of C. Diff Infections

May 12, 2025
Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) is a leading cause of hospital associated infections nationally, and a significant burden at UNC Hospitals. Patients with C. diff infections (CDI) frequently experience recurrent or prolonged diarrhea following antibiotic exposures. They are also at a high risk for adverse outcomes and prolonged hospitalizations, with high...

Lisa Woodley Receives a Faculty Award for Global Excellence

May 7, 2025
Lisa Woodley, PhD, MSN, associate professor of nursing and a member of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, received a faculty award for global excellence from UNC Global. The award recognizes exceptional contributions to the University’s mission of “leading change to improve society and to help solve the world’s greatest problems.” Vice Provost for...

Public Health Expert Studies Disease, Empowers Next Generation of Researchers

May 7, 2025
Dr. Mina Hosseinipour’s interest in infectious diseases and medicine began when she was a medical resident in Houston, Texas. Many patients were immigrants, and she was treating several for HIV using a new combination of anti-HIV drugs commonly known as HAART. “It made me want to understand why certain diseases...

Migrant Farmworker Health Service-Learning Donation Drive

May 4, 2025
The Office of Global Health Education is collecting gently used clothing for migrant/farm workers in Western North Carolina. In early June, a group of UNC Health students, residents, and faculty/staff will travel to Cullowhee, NC, to volunteer with Vecinos, an organization whose mission is to provide equitable culturally centered health care and wellness...

UNC Neurologists Lead Global Research in HIV-Associated Cognitive Disorders and Multiple Sclerosis

May 4, 2025
Two UNC neurologists are making significant strides in understanding neurological disorders across diverse global populations, from Latin America to Sub-Saharan Africa.  Monica Diaz, MD, MS, and Deanna Saylor, MD, MHS, are neuro-infectious diseases and neuro-immunology specialists. They are the newest members of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases,...

From Kinshasa to Chapel Hill: An Entomologist Is Working to Understand Transmission of Drug-Resistant Malaria Parasites

May 4, 2025
Fabien Vulu, MD, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) specializing in mosquito vectors of malaria parasites and viruses. He joined the IDEEL Lab at the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases to study under the mentorship of Dr. Jonathan Parr, MD, MPH, training in malaria parasite sequencing for the PaluSeq...

Building Long-Term Capacity for Global Anti-Microbial Stewardship

May 1, 2025
Anti-microbial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest global health threats. Countries with limited resources, such as Malawi, are particularly vulnerable to its impact, with resistant infections threatening to undo decades of medical progress.  While antibiotics are a cornerstone of modern medicine, less than 2% of the 50,000 medical laboratories...

Clinical Trials Unit Celebrates ACTG Milestone

April 7, 2025
The ACTG (Advancing Clinical Therapeutics Globally, formerly the AIDS Clinical Trials Group) Network celebrates the A5321 trial, and a successful ten-year milestone this month. Joe Eron, MD, Chief of Infectious Diseases, is the ACTG Chair and leader of the ACTG Executive Committee. “The A5321 has been ongoing for 10 years...

Grant Submission Updates

April 7, 2025
Greetings from the Pre-Award team! If you are planning to submit a grant application, please let us know at least 1 month in advance (preferably 2 months), so that we have time to meet our internal deadlines: Reminders: Most NIH funded research now requires a Data Management Plan.  UNC’s Research...

8th Annual Run for Malawi Children

April 7, 2025
Registration is now open for this year’s “Run for Malawi” 5k scheduled for Saturday, April 26. This fundraiser saves the lives of children in one of the poorest nations in the world. This year’s goal is to raise $50,000 to support critical work at Kamuzu Central Hospital’s pediatric ward, including...

Chemtai Mungo Awarded ASCO Career Development Award for Cervical Cancer Research

April 6, 2025
Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, FACOG, a member of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases has been awarded the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Career Development Award to support her research on the role of the vaginal microbiome in treatment outcomes following self-administered artesunate in the R34 trial she is...

Malawi to North Carolina: A Medical Student’s Exchange

April 4, 2025
Charles Junior Mwansambo completed six years of training in Malawi, including one year of pre-med, before he began the year-long application process that would bring him to UNC Hospitals for a medical student exchange. Currently, he’s wrapping up a two-month program with the UNC School of Medicine and says he’s...

Beyond the Data: One Undergraduate’s Journey into the Heart of Global Health

April 4, 2025
Senior Alexis Siegler came to Carolina from Decatur, Georgia, choosing Chapel Hill for its breadth of research and interdisciplinary studies. In May, she will graduate with majors in Neuroscience and Political Science, and a minor in Chemistry, along with an understanding that health care is about much more than medical...

IGHID Investigators Participate in CROI Conference

April 1, 2025
Investigators with the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases (IGHID) participated in the 2025 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in San Francisco, California, March 9-12. Following are some highlights.   In a CROI preview, Joe Eron, MD, was interviewed for the “Going Anti-Viral” IAS-USA podcast, discussing the...

Nilu Goonetilleke Discusses Latest HIV Research During CROI 2025

March 11, 2025
Nilu Goonetilleke, PhD, a member of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and associate professor of medicine, was interviewed by Contagion Infectious Diseases Today during CROI, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. She discussed two studies that she led with first author Cindy Gay, MD, MPH. The interviews...

Eron Discussed the State of HIV Cure Research in CROI Preview

March 10, 2025
In an interview with Dr. Michael Saag for the “Going Anti-Viral Podcast” posted March 7, Dr. Joe Eron described his presentation for the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections CROI (2025). The two discuss the state of HIV cure research, recognizing why it has been difficult to develop a cure...