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The Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the UNC School of Medicine announces the launch of an innovative platform powered by Terra Dotta that will support the Office of Global Health Education (OGHE) and the Office of Fellowships and Training (OFT). The new platform streamlines essential processes and...

Chapel Hill, N.C. — Researchers at the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases recently held a launch retreat for a new study testing ways to connect women leaving prison with highly effective HIV prevention tools, including pre‑exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Led by Becky White, MD, MPH, infectious diseases physician and long‑time...

Researchers with the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases have identified persistent Giardia infections as a significant risk factor for impaired linear growth, independent of intestinal inflammation.  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A study led by post-doc Lester Gutiérrez, MS, PhD, with Luther Bartelt, MD, DTM&H, and Sylvia Becker-Dreps,...

Life as a medical student comes with plenty of highs and lows. For Ben Arnold, a fourth-year medical student at UNC School of Medicine, the journey has been rewarding. Through countless hours in clinics, operating rooms, and hospital wards, he gained valuable skills and took pride in the care that...

In Malawi, where fewer than 50 pediatricians serve millions of children, there is little margin for delay—and even less margin for error.   For Dr. Elizabeth Fitzgerald, that reality has shaped her latest work, to help expand a Malawi-designed pediatric emergency training program at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre,...

Research highlights widespread sensitization to alpha-gal in areas where lone star ticks are common, while emphasizing the importance of symptom-based diagnosis.  Chapel Hill, NC — A new study examining blood donor samples from across the U.S. has found that nearly one in four adults in states with the highest rates...

What if some of the most promising solutions to U.S. health challenges have already been developed elsewhere? That question was at the heart of the inaugural Reciprocal Innovation Workshop, held April 13–16, 2026, in Baltimore, Maryland. Designed for emerging researchers and implementation scientists, the workshop explored how evidence-based interventions developed...

Chapel Hill, N.C. — A clinical trial designed to expand malaria protection for young children, led by Ross Boyce, MD, MSc, with the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the UNC School of Medicine, has been awarded $5.9 million from the National Institutes of Health. Co-investigators include...

On the eve of her medical school graduation, Camille Morgan paused to look back—not just on the close of a transformative chapter in Chapel Hill, but on a February spent in the busy public wards of Hospital Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru. She says that month in Lima helped her...

Jonathan J. Juliano, MD, MSPH, has been announced as the next director of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases (IGHID). He will begin work in this new role on July 1. Dr. Juliano is a physician-scientist and committed global health researcher whose work focuses on understanding how infectious...

A new study co-authored by Sylvia Becker-Dreps, MD, MPH, member of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, as well as the Joan C. and Robert Huntley Professor of Family Medicine and Epidemiology, and Filemón Bucardo, PhD, a senior researcher at UNC-Chapel Hill, offers new insight into how a common intestinal...

What is the future of global health? In April, attendees of the 2026 annual conference for the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) explored possible answers to this question. The Washington, DC meeting, which assembled leaders from academia, government, the private sector, and other organizations, reflected CUGH’s commitment to...