A new series published in leading medical journal Public Library of Science Medicine calls attention to the fact that poor sanitation, water and hygiene not only lead to the deaths of more than two million children each year, but also result in a massive global disease burden. Jamie Bartram, PhD, director of The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a UNC environmental sciences and engineering professor in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, is lead author of the introductory paper of four, released Nov. 16 in PLoS Medicine. Read more
Janet Place, MPH, director of the North Carolina Institute for Public Health’s Southeast Public Health Training Center, received the Theodore R. Ervin Award for Outstanding Service at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting in Denver on Nov. 9. The award, presented by the board of directors of UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Public Health Foundation, recognizes creative vision, relentless commitment and leadership to public health practice. Place was honored for her work in modifying and adapting national core public health competencies established by the Council on Linkages between Academia and Practice (COL). Read more
Obese adolescents are 16 times more likely to become severely obese by age 30 than their healthy weight or even overweight peers, according to a new study led by Penny Gordon-Larsen, PhD, associate professor of nutrition in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Public health researchers found that nearly 40 percent of obese adolescents are expected to become severely obese by age 30, compared to only 2.5 percent of healthy weight and overweight teenagers. The study was published in the Nov. 10, 2010, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Read more
Yingqi Zhao, biostatistics doctoral student at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has received the Statistics in Epidemiology Young Investigator Award from the American Statistical Association’s Statistics in Epidemiology Section. Zhao presented her research and received the award at the August Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver. The JSM is the largest gathering of statisticians held in North America. Usually attended by more than 5,000 people, JSM includes members of the American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society (both eastern and western North American regions, ENAR and WNAR), Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Statistical Society of Canada, International Chinese Statistical Association and International Indian Statistical Association. Read more
Three master’s students in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Department of Health Policy and Management each took home a $2,000 prize for winning third place in the National Association of Health Services Executives’ 15th annual Everett V. Fox Student Case Competition, held Oct. 12-15 in Memphis, Tenn. Justin Wright and Carmesia Straite, second-year Master of Healthcare Administration students, and Takeila Stringfield, second-year student in the Master of Science in Public Health program, prepared and presented a case, including cost and market analyses, to design a new health system for east New Orleans. Read more