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