Topic: Public Health

It is election year: Get involved, discuss, debate, listen and vote

Gillings is a big tent with room for many perspectives.

What is anti-American?

I nearly choked while driving Saturday morning when I heard on the radio about the new presidential directive stating that the government will no longer pay for anti-racism training for federal workers because it is “anti-American.”

Diversity, Inclusion and Equity

A hero dies too young

Chadwick Boseman exemplified courage and dedication to purpose more lasting than ourselves.

North Carolina

Campus decisions: who makes them, with what consequences and when to change them?

Decision making about whether to reopen a UNC System campus to residential students, especially students in dorms, is a complicated multi-layered process.

Global

Eleventh-hour policy targeting international students is unjust

This post is adapted from a July 9 letter to the Gillings School community that was endorsed by most members of the Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Dean’s Council. The text here reflects substantial revisions to the letter text. The opinions are mine, and I take responsibility for any errors or omissions.

Global

America self-isolates

If we are not at the table, the U.S. forfeits the chance to affect decisions made by WHO that have huge implications for global health.

Health insurance again at risk in US

Affordable health care for all is needed during this crisis and future ones.

Diversity, Inclusion and Equity

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.

Global

Steve Meshnick, professor of epidemiology, mentor, musician and mensch

The Department of Epidemiology at the Gillings School recently celebrated and paid tribute to Professor Steve Meshnick, MD, PhD, in a remarkable Zoom event with more than 200 participants from all over the world.

Diversity, Inclusion and Equity

The pandemic rages, days blend and springtime is sweet in Chapel Hill

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global disaster that has pummeled the world with the ferocity of the strongest winds, and the wreckage will last for years if not decades.

Public Health

Confronting the fast-moving twists and turns of COVID-19

Countries, cities, communities, organizations, families and individuals around the world are dealing with the evolving impacts and challenges of COVID-19 months after the novel coronavirus was identified.

Global

Experiencing NYC in the time of COVID-19

We all must rely on science and evidence as much as possible in making decisions, and we should not be paralyzed by the uncertainty that characterizes the coronavirus outbreak.

Making sense of the numbers and facts around COVID-19

Reporting and interpreting COVID-19 case data in a rapidly evolving, complex situation requires care, and the spread of misinformation is an added public health challenge.

Global

Coronavirus keeps on

It’s been six weeks since a new type of coronavirus, now named SARS-CoV-2 by the Coronavirus Study Group, was identified in China as the cause of an outbreak of severe, contagious respiratory disease. Once again, the world is learning just how important public health is to life as we know it.

Pictured are handcuffs on top of a fingerprint chart.

Diversity, Inclusion and Equity

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.

A person swims in a river that is flanked by houses with tin roofs.

North Carolina

Improving public health in North Carolina and around the world

A little more than 100 years ago, North Carolinians were plagued by hookworm, one of a group of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that affect more than one billion people annually worldwide.

Students walk across the stage at the 2019 Gillings School Spring Commencement.

Higher Ed

Congratulations, winter graduates!

Since becoming dean in 2005, I have participated in many commencements. All were different, and I loved them all, especially those for the Gillings School.

Government

Carrboro, NC, mayor proclaims Transgender Day of Remembrance

Ending threats and bias against transgender individuals - and ensuring safe, full lives for all people - depends on continued social, cultural and legislative progress.

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Topics

Topic: Public Health

It is election year: Get involved, discuss, debate, listen and vote

What is anti-American?

A hero dies too young

Campus decisions: who makes them, with what consequences and when to change them?

Eleventh-hour policy targeting international students is unjust

America self-isolates

Health insurance again at risk in US

Racism is a public health crisis

Steve Meshnick, professor of epidemiology, mentor, musician and mensch

The pandemic rages, days blend and springtime is sweet in Chapel Hill

Confronting the fast-moving twists and turns of COVID-19

Experiencing NYC in the time of COVID-19

Making sense of the numbers and facts around COVID-19

Coronavirus keeps on

All is not well in America

Improving public health in North Carolina and around the world

Congratulations, winter graduates!

Carrboro, NC, mayor proclaims Transgender Day of Remembrance

What's Popular

Black lives matter

Guns and threats of violence have no place on this campus

Toppling of the Silent Sam statue

Disposition of a statue