Monday Morning | A blog by UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Dean Barbara K. Rimer

Public health practice is important for schools of public health

In a cycle that often starts with practice and leads to research that improves practice, close collaboration with people in communities results in scalable public health solutions that improve lives.

Environment
Climate action, religious faith and rational hope

As long as there still are actions we can take to save the planet, there is reason to be hopeful.
Higher Ed
The pandemic and the need for empathy

After 18 months of uncertainty, loss and pain, we must tap into our reserves of empathy and find ways to help ease each other's – and our own – stress.
Government
Texas legislature passed an anti-woman, anti-abortion law

Texas law S.B.8 banning abortion at six weeks threatens the right to reproductive health services and sets the state back 50 years.

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Racism is a public health crisis

The past week has been profoundly sad, and the pain continues. Still in the throes of a global pandemic, we are sickened, angry and traumatized by repeated acts of violence against Black people, particularly Black men, in the United States.

Diversity, Inclusion and Equity

Black lives matter

Black lives matter. In this moment, with cellphone cameras, surveillance cameras and even police cameras recording events, Black men, like Rayshard Brooks, on June 12; George Floyd, on May 25, and too many others, continue to be killed – no, murdered – in cold blood.

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Public Health

All is not well in America

In a Jan. 19 opinion piece in The New York Times, noted writer and legal scholar Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, an excellent book, paints a picture of a flawed America that still has not come to grips with the role of race in our society.

North Carolina

Guns and threats of violence have no place on this campus

On two of the past three weekends, members of pro-Confederacy groups have visited our campus to continue to protest the toppling and removal of the Confederate soldier monument. I did not write after the first incident because one event, although deplorable, could be an anomaly. When the second event occurred, I felt compelled to respond. Two events could be the beginning of a trend.

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