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Following the 2022 mpox outbreak, dozens of cases occurred in young children within the U.S., and thousands have occurred internationally, where the Clade I virus has disproportionately affected young children in the Democratic Republic of Congo and surrounding areas.This is particularly concerning as increased severity of disease, mortality, and rates...

Tisungane Mvalo, MD, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UNC as well as the in-country Pediatric Director of UNC Project Malawi. He practices clinically at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi. In a recent article in The Lancet Global Health, Dr. Mvalo discusses the issues with access to medical...

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...

To reduce atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) among people living in the US with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, PLWH), it is critical to asess shortfalls in statin initiation. Stephen R. Cole, PhD, Myron S. Cohen, MD, Joseph J. Eron, MD, and Michelle Floris-Moore, MD, MS., aimed to describe patterns in clinically indicated...

Joanna “Asia” Maselko, ScD, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, is 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 article in BMC Public Health, they present findings on two less documented pathways: (a) COVID...

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...