Dr. Mirek Styblo, PhD, associate professor of nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, recently received a National Institutes of Health grant to create a Virtual Consortium for Translational/Transdisciplinary Environmental Research (ViCTER). The consortium will be built around Styblo’s existing NIH-funded project titled “Environmental Arsenic and Diabetes Mellitus.” Styblo and his team use a translational approach to characterize the association between chronic exposure to arsenic – a common drinking water contaminant – and diabetes. Read more
Leah VanceBrittany PapworthThe students are Katherine Wesley Byerly, of Chapel Hill, N.C., senior health policy and management major in the School and anthropology major in the College of Arts and Sciences; Paul Jeffrey Hiatt, of Loveland, Co., senior environmental health sciences major; Katherine Meredith Hunold, of Henrico, Va., junior biostatistics major; Charles Albert LePrevost, of Hickory, N.C., senior health policy and management major; Robyn Nicole Levine, of Miami, senior nutrition major; Brittany Nicole Papworth, of Hoffman Estates, Ill., a junior environmental health sciences major at the School and biology major in the College of Arts and Sciences; Michelle Ashley Tsang, of Chapel Hill, N.C., who received a May 2010 degree in environmental health sciences; and Leah Danielle Vance, of Cleveland, Tenn., senior environmental health sciences and engineering major. Read more
The New York Times: Panel Set To Study Safety Of Electronic Patient Data
Almost two years ago, President Obama pledged $19 billion in stimulus incentives to help convert the nation’s doctors and hospitals to using a paperless system of electronic health records intended to improve the quality of care and reduce costs. But the conversion is still a slow work in progress (Freudenheim, 12/13).
William G. Gray, PhD, professor of environmental sciences and engineering at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, will present the 2010 Langbein Lecture at the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) fall meeting in San Francisco on Tuesday, Dec. 14. The Walter B. Langbein Lectureship is awarded for lifetime contributions to the basic science of hydrology and/or unselfish service promoting cooperation in hydrologic research. Additional considerations may be the candidate’s renown as a lecturer and/or as an educator. The lectureship is one of AGU’s series of Bowie Lectures, established to honor Walter B. L Read more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) released its report, “Priority Areas for Improvement of Quality in Public Health,” at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Denver last month. Cheryll Lesneski, DrPH, clinical professor in the Public Health Leadership Program at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, is one of a small group of contributors to the landmark document, which was written by DHHS’ Peggy Honoré, director of the Public Health Systems, Finance and Quality Program, and Wakina Scott, public health system researcher, both of the Office of Healthcare Quality and Office of Minority Health. Read more