Author Archives: Kim Morris

Dr. David Rosen is featured in a story from WFAE (an NPR news source in Charlotte, North Carolina), about mental health care in jails, and the lack of providers. Rosen’s team conducted a survey of the availability of health care in the jails of four southern states, including North Carolina....

Aravinda de Silva, PhD, MPH, a member of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, has designed a new blood test to accurately diagnose dengue and Zika Viruses, to improve surveillance and advance vaccine development. The dengue virus (DENV), which infects several hundred million people worldwide each year, is responsible...

Bill Miller, MD, PhD, and his wife Clara Lee, MD, talk about navigating decades of marriage and academics in a new UNC Research feature. Lee is a surgeon scientist, specializing in breast reconstruction and studying how women make decisions about whether to have those surgeries. Miller is an epidemiologist and...

Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD, a professor of global health policy in the Department of Public Policy and the Department of Health Policy and Management, examines rights-based approaches to health at the intersection of global health, international law and public policy. In a recent editorial published in Science, Meier...

In the U.S., cancer diagnosis often involves costly biopsies and tests. In the south African country of Malawi, where the average annual income is around $300, patients can rarely afford such procedures — yet accurate diagnoses remain essential. To help, staff of the long-standing UNC Project Malawi Cancer Program are...

(Following is a look back at the 3rd Annual Global Health Scholars Symposium. Links to recordings are provided throughout.)   Myron Cohen, MD, director of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases welcomed faculty, students and fellows to the 3rd Annual Global Health Scholars Symposium Friday, Feb. 14, recognizing...

The Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases (IGHID) and UNC Global Women’s Health announce the first two PhD graduates of the UNC-UNZA-Wits Partnership for HIV and Women’s Reproductive Health Training Program, led by co-principal investigators Carla Chibwesha, MD, MSc, and Benjamin Chi, MD, MSc, in Global Women’s Health. Funded by the Fogarty International Center, part of the...

UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases researchers Vivian Go and Dr. Bill Miller are running multiple clinical trials in Vietnam to prevent HIV spread and support people living with the disease. Go is a professor in the health behavior department, and Miller is a professor in the epidemiology...

Global health issues may seem geographically distant, but they directly impact our local community through travel, immigration, emerging infectious diseases, and interconnected global economies. The ‘global’ in global health refers to the scope of problems, not just their location, which can be infectious diseases with pandemic potention. UNC’s global and...

Ujunwa Onyeama, MPH, a research assistant at the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, supports the project “Sustaining Innovative Tools to Expand Youth-Friendly HIV Self-Testing (S-ITEST).” Onyeama recently participated in the 20th Annual Women’s Leadership Weekend at the Fuqua School of Business. In the following, she reflects on this experience...

Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) affects over 14 million children under the age of five worldwide and is a leading cause of mortality in low-resource settings with infections being the major drivers. With a lack of rigorous studies, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended broad-spectrum antibiotics for infections in this...

Ann Dennis, MD, MS, a member of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Disease (IGHID) and associate professor of medicine, focuses on the clinical and epidemiologic aspects of HIV/AIDS, particularly among minority and immigrant populations. Dennis will soon be starting the implementation phase of the RESPOND Carolinas study, to improve...