November 11, 2025
Bauserman Elected Member of American Pediatric Society
The society recognizes distinguished academic leaders, educators, and researchers whose contributions have earned national and international acclaim.
Category: Global Health
September 24, 2025
Mungo Awarded $2.5M for Research Project to Improve HPV Treatment Outcomes for Women Living with HIV
Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, FACOG, has been awarded $2.5M over five years by the National Institutes of Health for her research focused on improving human papillomavirus treatment outcomes in women living with HIV in Africa.
June 26, 2025
Groundbreaking Twice-Yearly HIV Prevention Injection Approved by FDA
UNC School of Medicine’s Joe Eron, MD, an expert on HIV transmission and drug development, led a clinical trial on the new medication, which has the potential to resolve the HIV epidemic around the world.
March 26, 2025
Effective Antibiotic for Maternal Sepsis Saves Healthcare Costs, Study Finds
An international cost-effectiveness study, led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and the Kinshasa School of Public Health, has found that an effective antibiotic used to combat maternal sepsis vastly reduces health-care costs for pregnant patients.
May 15, 2024
Jiang Receives $4.46-million NIMH Grant
Guochun Jiang, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics and member of the UNC HIV Cure Center, received an R01 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for his project “Defining the HIV reservoir and latency mechanism in human brain myeloid cells” which is funded for five years and $4.6 million.
May 14, 2024
Five Questions with Isabela Gerdes Gyuricza
In this new Vital Signs series, we feature graduate student Isabela Gerdes Gyuricza in the Parr lab. Through her research at UNC, Gerdes Gyuricza has developed a clearer vision of how her work in genetic epidemiology can influence public health policies and make a difference in people's lives.
February 13, 2024
Five Questions with Autumn Grace Hullings
In this new Vital Signs series, we feature graduate student Autumn Grace Hullings in the Gordon-Larsen lab. Inspired by the emerging field of precision nutrition, Hullings would like to improve dietary guidelines to prevent or reduce cardiometabolic disease.
February 13, 2024
New Trial Highlights Incremental Progress Towards a Cure for HIV-1
Cynthia L. Gay, MD, MPH, associate professor of infectious diseases, and David Margolis, MD, the Sarah Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology, and Epidemiology in the UNC School of Medicine, published results of a clinical trial showing that vorinostat and immunotherapy may modestly shrink the latent HIV reservoir.
July 19, 2023
Researchers Link Early-life Exposure to Wildfire Smoke with Early Use of Upper Respiratory Medication
Ilona Jaspers, PhD, director of the UNC Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology, co-authored a study with colleagues from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on possible effects of wildfire smoke in-utero or in the first weeks of life.
August 8, 2022
Scientists Create Long-acting Injectable Drug Delivery System for Tuberculosis
Led by Martina Kovarova, PhD, Miriam Braunstein, PhD, and J. Victor Garcia, PhD, UNC School of Medicine researchers showed in vivo efficacy of a long-acting injectable formulation of the anti-TB drug rifabutin.
March 24, 2022
2022 Global Health Pathway Residents Announced
The residents come from diverse backgrounds with a variety of experiences and each are committed to careers incorporating Global Health.
March 17, 2022
Charles, Gallaher Co-Author Review of Acute Cholecystitis in JAMA
Anthony Charles, MD, MPH, and Jared Gallaher, MD, MPH, co-wrote a review article in the Journal of the American Medical Association on acute cholecystitis, a gallbladder condition diagnosed in approximately 200,000 people in the United States each year.