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Brinkley-Rubinstein Interviewed by The Lancet Voice Podcast

October 29, 2021
October 22, 2021 鈥 Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD, CHER Core Faculty, was a guest on the 50th episode of The Lancet Voice, a podcast focused on global health, policy and clinical research. The episode, 鈥淧rison health and COVID-19,鈥 covers US and sub-Saharan African contexts. Brinkley-Rubinstein shares the barriers faced by populations...

Pioneering Hispanic health study keeps uncovering trove of info 鈥 Krista M. Perreira (American Heart Association)

October 18, 2021
Krista M. Perreira, a professor of social medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill has led recruitment and retention for the research project since its earliest days. She said the study’s emphasis on diverse heritage groups had helped researchers spot important differences among Hispanic...

Giselle Corbie receives 2021 McClinton Outstanding Faculty Staff Award

September 9, 2021
Giselle is nationally known for her scholarly work on the inclusion of disparity populations in research and has over a decade of experience in using community engagement to conduct innovative, translational health equity research. Her empirical work, using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, has focused on the methodological, ethical and...

Poteat and Colleagues Publish Transgender Women and HIV Research in BMC Public Health

August 12, 2021
Tonia Poteat, PhD, CHER Core Faculty, and colleagues have published research on transgender women鈥檚 intervention preferences for addressing HIV vulnerability determinants.   https://news.unchealthcare.org/2021/08/poteat-and-colleagues-publish-transgender-women-and-hiv-research-in-bmc-public-health/

Jill Fisher receives 2021 Robert K. Merton Book Award

August 12, 2021
American Sociological Association announced Jill Fisher’s book, Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals, is the 2021 winner of the Robert K. Merton Book Award, from the ASA鈥檚 Science, Knowledge,聽and Technology Section. https://news.unchealthcare.org/2021/08/fisher-receives-robert-k-merton-book-award/  

Rebecca Walker on ABC11, Ethics or etiquette: Is it OK to ask someone’s vaccination status?

August 12, 2021
Rebecca Walker discusses the ethics of asking persons about vaccine status:聽 https://abc11.com/10941180/  

Oberlander Edits Special Issue on Biden Administration鈥檚 Health Care Agenda

August 5, 2021
Jonathan Oberlander, Professor and Chair of the 黑料网 Department of Social Medicine, and Professor of Health Policy & Management, is editor of a new special issue on the Biden Administration鈥檚 health care agenda that appears in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.聽 Articles in the special issue explore...

Poteat, Colleagues Publish Breast Cancer Care Research

August 5, 2021
Tonia Poteat, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine and CHER Core Faculty member, and colleagues published research in the journal Cancer on delays in breast cancer care by race and sexual orientation.   https://news.unchealthcare.org/2021/08/poteat-colleagues-publish-breast-cancer-care-research/ https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cncr.33629

Krista Perreira Co-authors Study on Drinking among College Students During Pandemic

August 5, 2021
First-year college students are reporting drinking less alcohol and having fewer episodes of binge drinking four months into the coronavirus pandemic than they were before the pandemic started, according to a study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. https://www.cpc.unc.edu/news/drinking-among-first-year-college-students-decreases-during-pandemic/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1054139X2100327X?dgcid=author

Brinkley-Rubinstein publishes research letter in NEJM

July 12, 2021
Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Social Medicine, is the lead author of a research letter published in the July 7, 2021 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2108479