For 10 years, UNC and UNC Project-Malawi have provided food and an education for nearly 1,000 pre- and primary school children in the Dzama community outside of Lilongwe, Malawi. Learn how this support has impacted the community and what UNC hopes to achieve in 2017.

UNC’s Department of Radiology and the Department of Allied Health Sciences’ Division of Radiologic Science have worked together to strengthen an international footprint in radiology.

A donation of pathology equipment between two schools in the University of North Carolina system will save lives and improve lab operations in Malawi.

For the past eight years, Anthony Charles, MD, has built the Malawian Surgical Initiative, training Malawian surgeons to care for their own and providing transformative educational experiences for UNC medical students and residents.

Breast cancer was not a death sentence for Malawi native Maggie Zgambo. She believes God spared her to spread awareness about breast cancer. She was one of four women to take part in the first breast cancer screening pilot study in Malawi launched by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

UNC’s unique model of permanently based American faculty and training of Malawian medical professionals is improving healthcare for Malawians.

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the UNC Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases have received a $3.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to study the growing worldwide cancer problem and expand the University’s efforts in Malawi to study and treat HIV-associated cancers.

By Diane Shaw

“I love you,” declared a child’s voice among the crowd of health professionals gathered at the home of Myron Cohen, MD, Director of UNC’s Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases. The room erupted in laughter, but the sentiment expressed by the grandson of Susan Fiscus, PhD, summed up the feelings of everyone attending the … Read more