Category: Health Equity
Doctoral candidate Black awarded University Cancer Research Fund grant
July 24, 2015Kristin Z. Black, doctoral candidate in maternal and child health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and HPDP graduate research assistant, has been awarded a $20,000 grant from the Uni … Read more
Envisioning Health Project combats explicit bias in health care
May 10, 2015In her recent post for The OBSSR Connector, the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research’s blog, Mimi Chapman, MSW, PhD, introduces the Envisioning Health Project. The transdisciplinary … Read more
Dr. Samuel-Hodge Honored For Mentoring Women of Color
March 26, 2015Written by Jennie Saia Public Communications Specialist, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Carmen Samuel-Hodge, PhD, research assistant professor of nutrition at The University of North Caro … Read more
HPDP receives receives $3.75 million to conduct prevention research
October 7, 2014The Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention continues to bring essential health promotion resources to underserved areas of North Carolina with an initial focus on heart disease in Hertford … Read more
HALF of NC Schools Commit to Expand Breakfast with Help from No Kid Hungry NC
September 11, 2014No Kid Hungry North Carolina, under leadership of the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, and in partnership with the NC Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI) and the Southeast … Read more
NC high school students embrace public health advocacy
May 30, 2014A group of North Carolina high school students are making strides in public health and youth advocacy, thanks to a partnership with the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and Stren … Read more
HPDP research seek voice for immigrant populations
May 8, 2014HPDP researchers Eugenia Eng and Alexandra Lightfoot and community partner Florence Siman are working with an interdisciplinary team at UNC on the Envisioning Health project. Envisioning Health is led … Read more
HPDP researchers connect community members with hospitals in Lehigh Valley
March 5, 2014After a two year partnership with the UNC Office of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, five area hospitals in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania have ratified the Community Health Needs Assessment and … Read more
Former CBPR trainee’s research seeks to reduce sexual health disparities in young African American women
July 7, 2013Former UNC WK Kellogg Health Scholar Briana Woods-Jaeger is making strides to reduce sexual health disparities among African American female youth. Woods-Jaeger is the principal investigator on a teen … Read more
WK Kellogg Health Scholar wins $100,000 grant
June 3, 2013Congratulations to former UNC WK Kellogg Health Scholar, Keon L. Gilbert who recently received a two-year, $100,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Gilbert will use the grant to … Read more