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Transmission Models of Respiratory Infections in Carceral Settings

April 23, 2025
David L. Rosen, MD, PhD, MSPH, an Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, says prevention and control of infectious disease outbreaks in carceral settings face unique challenges in a paper published in Science Direct. Transmission modeling is a powerful tool for understanding and addressing these challenges, but reviews of modeling work in...

Life Sentence on the Installment Plan

March 6, 2025
Dr. David Rosen is featured in a story from WFAE (an NPR news source in Charlotte, North Carolina), about mental health care in jails, and the lack of providers. Rosen’s team conducted a survey of the availability of health care in the jails of four southern states, including North Carolina....

Study Shows Drug Use-Associated Endocarditis Increases Hospital Risk For Bacterial Infections

May 10, 2024
David Rosen, PhD, MD, and Asher Schranz, MD, MPH, members of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, found people with drug use-associated infective endocarditis are at high risk of mortality and future hospitalization for bacterial infections, including endocarditis, skin and soft tissue infections and bacteremia. The study, a...

IAMIGHID: A Community With a Fierce Commitment to Ending HIV Turns 25

December 4, 2023
The UNC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) is an engine for funding HIV research, supported by a competitive NIH P30 infrastructure grant that has been successfully renewed since 1998. It is also a consortium of three complementary institutions (UNC, RTI and FHI) as CFAR Director Ron Swanstrom, PhD, and Associate...

Survey Indicates Jail Healthcare Falls Short of Community Standards

November 9, 2023
David Rosen, MD, PhD, a researcher with the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases (IGHID), assessed healthcare services at county jails in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. The results indicate jail healthcare falls short of community standards. The need for adequate healthcare has been a long-standing concern...

‘Global Health’ at Home: ID Fellow Eli Arant Works With Drs. Rosen and White to Study HIV Care For the Criminally Charged

April 27, 2023
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...