Tag: Becky White

Chapel Hill, N.C. — Researchers at the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases recently held a launch retreat for a new study testing ways to connect women leaving prison with highly effective HIV prevention tools, including pre‑exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Led by Becky White, MD, MPH, infectious diseases physician and long‑time...

When epidemiology graduate student Nilkanth (Neil) Calimlim-Khot talks about his interests, his professional and personal experiences naturally intersect. As a study coordinator for HIV research with incarcerated individuals through the UNC School of Medicine’s Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, and an injury epidemiologist at the N.C. Office of...

Chapel Hill, NC— A newly published case study in the Journal of Correctional Health Care urges immediate action to strengthen syphilis screening protocols for pregnant individuals in U.S. jails and prisons. Researchers at the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases recently published “Syphilis Screening Among Pregnant Individuals in Carceral...

This year’s ID Week will take place October 19-22, 2025, in Atlanta, GA. ID Week is the joint annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the HIV Medicine Association, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, and the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists....

The HIV Medical Association (HIVMA) has selected Becky White, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, to receive the 2025 Ada Adimora Citation Award for her leadership in improving HIV care and reducing health disparities for incarcerated women with HIV. The Adaora Adimora Citation Award...

For more than two decades, UNC’s infectious disease specialists have provided HIV care to incarcerated individuals across North Carolina’s prison system. Dr. Becky White is the director of UNC Infectious Diseases and HIV Services in the N.C. Department of Adult Corrections. Dr. Lina Rosengren-Hovee is the associate director. In the following,...

African American women in the criminal justice system face a heightened risk of acquiring HIV, particularly during the critical transition from incarceration to the community. Despite this, many lack access to essential prevention services and effective treatments like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Becky White, MD MPH, an infectious disease physician and...

Research capacity building is intrinsic to the work of the Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases (IGHID), nurturing trainees here and around the world. Eli Arant, MD, a third-year infectious diseases fellow in the T-32 training program, represents this training at its best, moving the literature forward in an...

In the summer of 2001, Shani Morgan was a few months pregnant and in prison, where she learned that she had HIV. She’d been sent from jail to Bragg Street Women’s Prison in Raleigh for better monitoring and medical treatment. What she remembers most about being treated by her UNC...

  Becky White, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of medicine in UNC’s Division of Infectious Diseases and co-director of HIV Services for the North Carolina Department of Corrections. White’s research focuses on the dynamic interface between public health and medicine. She was one of the leading physicians who described...