Carol Golin, MD
Director, CFAR Social and Behavioral Research Core
Professor, Department of Health Behavior, Gillings
Areas of Interest
HIV health services and behavioral research
About
Dr. Golin is a physician, director of the Social and Behavioral Research Core at the UNC Center for AIDS Research, and a professor in the Department of Health Behavior at the Gillings School of Global Public Health and in the UNC Department of Medicine. She is engaged in research on the development and assessment of behavioral interventions to enhance compliance and health care for persons living with HIV/AIDS and access to care for incarcerated persons. In addition, Dr. Golin studies the influence of patient-provider communication on health outcomes with a particular interest in the effects of enhanced patient participation in medical decision-making. She is also interested in behavioral interventions to prevent the secondary spread of HIV.
In the news
Black women in the southern United States are less likely to seek HIV prevention and treatment services because they don’t trust the health care system, according to a study in the September/October issue of The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (JANAC) by Schenita Randolph, PhD, MPH, at Duke University School of Nursing. … Read more
African American women perceive systemic barriers to accessing HIV prevention care
Education
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Undergraduate
Oberlin College
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MD
University of North Carolin at Chapel Hill