Category: Health Equity
HPDP helps expand COVID-19 vaccination to doctor’s offices
May 14, 2021The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is working to support expansion of COVID-19 vaccination to primary care clinics in areas with low vaccination rates, thanks to a grant from the U.S. Cen … Read more
Research Fellow Profile: Samuel Cykert, MD
December 11, 2020Samuel Cykert, MD is a research fellow at HPDP and Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology at UNC-Chapel Hill. What questions are you trying to an … Read more
Samuel-Hodge wins inaugural Gillings Faculty Award for Excellence in Health Equity Research
October 28, 2020Carmen Samuel-Hodge, PhD, RD has been selected as the recipient of the inaugural Gillings Faculty Award for Excellence in Health Equity Research. Samuel-Hodge is an associate professor of nutrition at … Read more
UNC-led ACCURE trial remedies racial disparities in treatment for early-stage lung and breast cancer patients
May 20, 2020Adapted from the UNC Health Care and UNC School of Medicine newsroom. Results from a study published in The Journal of the National Medical Association show that a pragmatic system-based intervention … Read more
Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network produces supplemental issue of Preventive Medicine highlighting disparities in cancer prevention and control
December 16, 2019In 2019, nearly 2 million Americans will receive a cancer diagnosis and more than 600,000 will die of cancer. Cancer diagnoses and deaths are disproportionately high among people who live in rural cou … Read more
UNC researchers solve racial disparities in treatment for early-stage lung cancer patients
February 18, 2019Results from a study published Feb. 4 in the journal Cancer Medicine show that a pragmatic system-based intervention within cancer treatment centers can eliminate existing disparities in treatment and … Read more
Good Bowls: A recipe for health equity
May 29, 2018Short-term and long-term health can be dictated by a paycheck, a home address, or another social determinant, but Good Bowls is a new initiative seeking to change that. Alice Ammerman, director of UNC … Read more
New research project to study impact of living wage on health
May 29, 2018Does more money equate to better health? Researchers are focusing on Minneapolis’ minimum wage increase to answer this question. University of Minnesota and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill re … Read more
CHANGE project part of AAMC Health Equity Snapshot 2018
May 22, 2018As a part of their continued commitment to improving the health of individuals and populations, academic medical centers are conducting research to find solutions for inequities in health and health c … Read more
Samuel-Hodge receives the Harriet Hylton Barr Distinguished Alumni Award
April 23, 2018Carmen Samuel-Hodge, PhD, is the 2018 Barr awardee. Samuel-Hodge, who earned a doctorate in nutrition in 2000 at the Gillings School, joined the Gillings School faculty in 2003. She has won a number o … Read more