Category: Undergraduate-News

A systematic review led by Dorian Ho (UNC BSPH-2025), and Joseph Tucker, co-director of UNC Project-China and a member of the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, found that givers leveraged altruism, agency, and relationality with recipients to improve distribution and use of health services in their social...

Cedra Ali, a senior Honors student in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, presented her research at the 4th Annual Global Health Scholars Symposium in February. She was the only undergraduate presenter at the event, which primarily featured doctoral trainees, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty researchers from all over the globe....

Claire Pedersen was a sophomore at UNC-Chapel Hill when the COVID-19 pandemic upended daily life, forcing students into remote learning with stay-at-home orders. Meanwhile, her mother Susan Pedersen, the Clinical Director of the UNC Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) at the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases was working to...

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...

Junior Hallie Stallings is a public policy major with minors in education and African Studies. Last spring, she took one of her favorite classes to date, Public Health 420: The HIV/AIDS Course, led by Ronald Strauss, DMD, PhD, a medical sociologist and dentist. Offered through the Gillings School of Global...

Michaela Tse is a Senior at UNC-Chapel Hill majoring in Global Studies and minoring in both Business and Japanese. This past summer, she spent eight weeks in Malawi to do research for her senior thesis, mentored by Professor Irving Hoffman, PA, MPH, UNC Project Malawi’s International Director. The opportunity came...