Category: News

David L. Rosen, MD, PhD, MSPH, an Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, says prevention and control of infectious disease outbreaks in carceral settings face unique challenges in a paper published in Science Direct. Transmission modeling is a powerful tool for understanding and addressing these challenges, but reviews of modeling work in...

Tisungane Mvalo, MD, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and the in-country Pediatric Director of UNC Project-Malawi, authored a new paper published in The Lancet Child Adolescent Health about children with severe acute malnutrition who have a high but underappreciated risk of tuberculosis. Severe acute malnutrition affects more than 13 million children younger...

Dr. Jennifer Morgan, under the mentorship of Dr. Katie Reeder Hayes, Associate Professor of Oncology and Dr. Tamiwe Tomoka, UNC Project-Malawi Cancer Program Co-Director, describes breast cancer treatment patterns by stage and curative-intent guideline-concordant treatment (GCT) receipt among Malawian women in BMC Women’s Health. A prospective cohort of breast cancer patients was enrolled...

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an important tool for reducing HIV incidence in the United States, but barriers to access, including race, sex, socioeconomic status, and geography, continue to persist. Sarah E. Rutstein, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Christopher Hurt, MD, FIDSA, Professor of Medicine, and Brian Wells Pence, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology are conducting a study...

Monica Maria Diaz, MD, MS, an assistant professor of neurology, published a study in the Journal of Gerontology measuring internalized HIV stigma in the Women’s Interagency HIV Study between 2013 and 2015. Internalized HIV stigma refers to the negative beliefs, feelings, and attitudes that people with HIV (PWH) adopt about themselves...

Joanna “Asia” Maselko, ScD, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, and Ann M. Collins, PA-C, a Physician Assistant in the Division of Infectious Diseases, are working to improve preparation for future pandemics by examining the myriad psychosocial pathways through which the COVID-19 pandemic impacted mental health. In a recent...

Emily W. Gower, PhD, is an associate professor at the Gillings School of Global Public Health working in ocular epidemiology. Her primary area of research interest is in improving trichiasis surgery outcomes for individuals with trachoma, which is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. She has led multiple clinical...

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...

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...

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, 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...

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...

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...

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, 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...

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...

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...