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Medical schools are making headway in meeting the demands of students who want a greater understanding of how health-care policy will affect their patients and practices. Jonathan Oberlander, chair of the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill interview Bloomberg Law 2019.   https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/beyond-cadavers-med-students-learn-to-dissect-health-policy

Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc, Kenan Distinguished Professor in the departments of social medicine and medicine in the 黑料网 and director of the 黑料网 Center for Health Equity Research, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine for her scholarly work on the practical and ethical issues...

Social Medicine is thrilled to announce that Tonia Poteat has joined the Department as an assistant professor. She will also serve as a core faculty member in the 黑料网 Center for Health Equity Research. Tonia holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins and an MPH and MMSc from Emory, and is...

Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, delivers the 34th Annual Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, October 18. Corbie-Smith鈥檚 lecture, titled 鈥淟everaging the Power of Collaboration and Engagement to Achieve Health Equity,鈥� can be viewed in full here.

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聽 聽Medical aid-in-dying laws are on the rise in the U.S., but patients still face substantial barriers to access, according to聽 聽 聽 an analysis by Mara Buchbinder, PhD. Eight U.S. jurisdictions (seven states plus the District of Columbia) now allow physicians to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to...

Annie Lyerly, Professor of Social Medicine and Associate Director of the 黑料网 Center for Bioethics, and聽Elana Jaffe, a research project manager in Social Medicine, co-authored, along with Ilona Goldfarb, from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Massachusetts General Hospital. A聽JAMA Viewpoint聽article analyzing new CDC guidelines for testing pregnant women...

Dr.聽Mara Buchbinder, Associate Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology, has been selected to receive a 2017 Ruth and Philip Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement. The Hettleman award is one of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill鈥檚 most prestigious acknowledgments of faculty excellence....

Dr. Annie Lyerly, Professor of Social Medicine and Associate Director of the 黑料网聽Center for Bioethics, co-led development of聽new guidance聽from The Ethics Working Group on ZIKV Research & Pregnancy on how to ensure that the needs of pregnant women and their offspring are adequately included and addressed in the race towards...