Research is a Team Sport: Build Your Team
September 5, 2018
By Dr. Kandace McGuire and Apoorve Nayyar
Category: News
OIA Releases 2017-2018 Annual Highlights
August 30, 2018
OIA Global Health Scholar, Erica Bjornstad, Studies Epidemiology of Acute Kidney Injury in Malawi
August 30, 2018
OIA Global Health Scholar, Erica Bjornstad, MD, and third-year pediatric nephrology fellow is studying the epidemiology of acute kidney injury in Malawi.
Global Health Happenings: Summer 2018
August 30, 2018
https://mailchi.mp/7251ccb8b55c/quarterly-global-health-happenings-spring-2017-draft-1199469
Alarming polio outbreak spreads in Congo, threatening global eradication efforts
July 5, 2018
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/polio-outbreaks-congo-threaten-global-eradication Alarming polio outbreak spreads in Congo, threatening global eradication efforts By Leslie Roberts Jul. 2, 2018 , 1:30 PM Overshadowed by the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), another frightening virus is on the loose in that vast, chaotic country: polio. Public health experts have...
The Triangle Global Health Annual Conference 9/27/2018
July 3, 2018
http://www.triangleglobalhealth.org/2018-conference-abstract Are you involved in global health research? Consider submitting an abstract to the NC Triangle Global Health Consortium conference. Deadlines are below. Good luck…and keep in mind the OIA has conference reimbursement stipends for UNC medical students accepted to present at a global health conference. If approved, OIA reimbursements...
In Upholding Trump’s Travel Ban, Supreme Court Ratifies Worldview That Worries Colleges
June 28, 2018
https://www.chronicle.com/article/In-Upholding-Trump-s-Travel/243765?utm_source=Global+Health+NOW+Main+List&utm_campaign=8eddc27d5c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_26_12_34&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d0d062dbd-8eddc27d5c-875843 By Karin Fischer June 26, 2018 When President Trump, days after taking office, issued an executive order barring travelers, including students, from a half-dozen predominantly Muslim countries, it was like a chain-link fence hastily erected along the border. High and barbed and menacing, yes, but thanks to immediate legal...
The missing science: Could our addiction to plastic be poisoning us?
June 7, 2018
The Plastic Paradox
The Disease That Strikes Back
June 7, 2018
Could a form of leishmaniasis challenge elimination efforts in India?
Refugee Health & Wellness Seminar 2018-2019
May 23, 2018
Refugee Health and Wellness Seminar – 2018-2019_ We are excited to be offering this year long course for the second year; expanding our class size to 30 students and crossing campuses to involve Duke University (though all classes will be held at UNC). This course is offered through the...
2018 Global Health Pediatric Simulation Training
May 9, 2018
On April 23, 2018, Drs. Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Emily Ciccone and Alyssa Tilly held a Pediatric Global Health Simulation for those planning to rotate abroad during residency or medical school, or are considering a career in global health. Dr. Fitzgerald, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, served as the Faculty Advisor for...
The Forgotten Ebola Survivors of Sierra Leone
April 27, 2018
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/04/25/604966533/two-years-after-end-of-ebola-crisis-survivors-sue-to-receive-promised-aid?utm_source=Global+Health+NOW+Main+List&utm_campaign=b884df3902-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d0d062dbd-b884df3902-875843 “Cellal alaa cogu — health has no price,” sighs Haja Bah, looking out on a dusty street in the sprawling eastern suburbs of Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital. “But they have forgotten us … and many are still really suffering.” Between 2013 and 2016, the Ebola virus claimed more...