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In Austin, striking a balance between work and play
[This is the fourth in a series of posts by Steven Norton ('12), who is a part of a student team making a documentary film about clean water in Tanzania.] Students of the World office. Photo by Gladys...
View ArticleStorytelling through song: AIDS in Malawi
[This post was sent in by Anne McNulty, a senior majoring in international studies who works part time for IGHID] People often say that music is a universal language. But is it really? A recent study...
View ArticleRinging the bell for AIDS awareness
What do AIDS, gay icons, fashion royalty, NBC comedy, and capitalism have in common? They were all present on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange this morning to ring the opening bell. The...
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Educating girls and the hope for a healthier tomorrow
Today marks the 100th International Women’s Day, and I’ve been following the online discussion off and on all day. This morning on Twitter, our neighbors at Capacity Plus (part of Intrahealth...
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Florence, Exavery, Katia: Patient portraits from Kenya
[This post was sent in by Gemma Lewis, MD, a first-year resident in emergency medicine at UNC] In the Spring of 2011, a delegation of health care providers from UNC and Duke traveled to Kenya and...
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A remarkable day in HIV prevention research – report from Rome
Dr. Mina Hosseinipour presenting HPTN 052 results at the International AIDS Society Meeting in Rome For the past two months, things have been pretty crazy around our institute. On May 12, we announced...
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Hook-ups and check-ups: how social media is changing STD prevention programs
[This post was written by Catherine Grodensky, MPH. Catherine is manager of the UNC Center for AIDS Research Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Core] Researchers at UNC have been making news...
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In D.C., honoring black women living with HIV/AIDS
Alicia Keys (in white hat), Valerie Jarrett (front center), Ada Adimora (front row, second from right) gather for a meeting focused on black women living with HIV/AIDS, held in conjunction with the XIX...
View ArticleShining a light on UNC Global Women’s Health
Our new Global Women’s Health Division was featured in a fantastic story on ABC 11 News Last week, WTVD reporter and anchor Steve Daniels stopped by our offices, where we were hosting about 15 faculty...
View ArticleMyron Cohen talks fighting infection at TEDx
Last month, the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics hosted “TEDxNCSSM” as a celebration of human achievement and experience in a wide variety of fields. IGHID director Myron Cohen was...
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Blog: ID Clinic Director Answers Most Common Patient Questions
Claire Farel, MD, MPH, shares the questions she is most asked as medical director of the UNC Infectious Diseases Clinic. Claire Farel, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor of medicine in the UNC School...
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Experience at UNC Leads to New Job
While training at UNC, Cheng Wang met many faculty including Myron Cohen, MD, director of the UNC Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases. Cheng Wang came to UNC as a Visiting Scholar...
View ArticlePhotos: Community Engagement Improves STD Testing and Treatment in Asia
Allison Mathews, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at UNC. She leads 2BeatHIV, a research project examining the social and ethical aspects of research on curing HIV. She recently attended two...
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UNC Grad Tackles STI Prevention in China
Amy Lee works at UNC Project-China. Amy Lee recently graduated from UNC Chapel Hill and has travelled to Guangzhou, China, for a research coordinator position with UNC Project-China. In this post, she...
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UNC Faculty Present at HIV Prevention Conference in Asia
Wenting Huang, third from left, presented a secondary analysis of an online condom use promotion cohort study among Chinese MSM. In this blog post, Wenting Huang, a research assistant at UNC...
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Conference Connects Researchers and the Community
Amy Lee (left) with her AIDS 2018 youth ambassador team talking with Dr. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, a virologist who co-discovered HIV. Amy Lee is a research coordinator with UNC Project-China. She...
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Get into MATRix: A New Public Health Program Launches at UNC
Kimberly Knight is a member of the MATRix program team. Kimberly Knight is a Disease Interventionist Specialist and Patient Navigator with the MATRix Program and a Master’s of Social Work graduate...
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