July 15, 2021
Clinical Scholars awarded $298,000 in COVID rapid response grants for 22 projects nationwide. The national leadership program for health care providers pivoted program funds which helped nearly 10,000 people plus animals in this unprecedented time of need.
July 8, 2021
It is the first scientific article looking at breakthrough cases among vaccinated people in a correctional setting.
June 24, 2021
Arlene M. Davis, JD, will be new director of the UNC Center for Bioethics at the UNC School of Medicine starting July 1. The center’s previous director, Eric Juengst, PhD, will continue as a professor in the departments of Social Medicine and Genetics and as a core faculty member in the Center.
April 20, 2021
The Inaugural Columbia Street Lecture will take place on April 29th from 4:00-5:30pm. Professor Steven Woolf, MD, MPH will present "The Intersection of Medicine and Public Health: A Reflection on Challenges and Opportunities."
April 14, 2021
Mara Buchbinder, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Social Medicine, is the author of a new book, Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America, which will be published in May by the University of California Press.
March 31, 2021
Participating households in Greenville, Pitt County, NC will receive free month-long supplies of rapid tests aimed at reducing community transmission of COVID-19. UNC School of Medicine’s Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, and Duke colleagues will conduct research to test effectiveness of the program.
February 10, 2021
Mara Buchbinder, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine, authored an opinion piece that was published February 10 on the website of Scientific American.
November 17, 2020
Rebecca L. Walker, PhD, Professor in the Department of Social Medicine, is featured in a campus profile, "Ethics at the Forefront," on pages 26-27 of the November/December 2020 issue of Carolina Alumni Review.
October 28, 2020
UNC Speech and Hearing Sciences faculty member, Brenda Mitchell, recently published and released her first children’s book titled, “Anthony’s Adventures: Already a Winner.”
October 22, 2020
The NC TraCS Stakeholder Engagement Voucher provides funding to enable equitable stakeholder engagement in health research at UNC-Chapel Hill and TraCS Institute-affiliated partner institutions.
October 6, 2020
For the first time, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation named two clinical scholars from the same institution to two different health provider teams in the same year: Crystal Wiley Cené, MD, MPH, and Thava Mahadevan, MS.
August 13, 2020
Read the announcement of Dr. Jonathan Oberlander's Five-Year Review, and learn how to provide your perspective in this important process.