December 16, 2020 – Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD,  UNC CHER Core Faculty, and colleagues from Yale University and Columbia University have released a white paper on “Recommendations for Prioritization and Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccine in Prisons and Jails.” The paper discusses 4 recommendations by the authors on how states can craft and strategize a vaccine … Read more

Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, Ph.D., CHER Core faculty, has been awarded $250,000 in funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to support “expanding data collection under the COVID Prison Project to help transform public health data systems and advance health equity.” Learn more about the Covid Prison Project here.

December 8, 2020 – Seth Berkowitz, MD, MPH, UNC CHER Faculty Associate, publishes a study titled “Losing Jobless Benefits Is Not Only Stressful, It Might Be Harmful to Health.” in JAMA. The study “focused on unemployment insurance, health-related social needs, health care access and mental health during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Results showed unemployment insurance benefits … Read more

November 9, 2020 – Mark Shapiro, MD’s Explore the Space released a new podcast episode where Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc, CHER Director and Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine and Medicine was recently interviewed by Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine & health equity researcher at the University of Pittsburgh School of … Read more

  “My concern with these kinds of comments and the misinformation that we have out there is the way it’s undermining the trust in science and our healthcare systems at the very time we need our people and our communities to have accurate information and ways to protect themselves” –Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc, CHER director … Read more

Original publish date: October 19, 2020 “The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced a $12 million award for outreach and engagement efforts in ethnic and racial minority communities that are being disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The award to RTI International, a nonprofit research institution, will support teams in 11 states that are … Read more

Original publish date: October 20, 2020 CHAPEL HILL, NC – In May 2020, UNC Health launched a mobile COVID-19 testing unit to underserved areas in central North Carolina. The mobile unit was successful for several reasons, the first of which being that UNC Health immediately connected with community leaders and advocates to gain valuable insights … Read more

Source: The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will be releasing its report on Understanding the Well-Being of LGBTQI+ Populations on October 21st, 2020 with a report release webinar. “This report will review the available data and future research needs relevant to persons of diverse sexualities … Read more

Original press release date: September 30, 2020 “The Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), in partnership with the Center for Health Equity Research at UNC-Chapel Hill and Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, has received an $80 million award to serve as the coordinating and data collection center for a four-year program that will overcome barriers and increase … Read more

Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD, CHER core faculty and Assistant Professor of Social Medicine is leading the $5 million project, “COVID-19 Testing and Prevention in Correctional Settings” with researchers at Yale University and Brown University through a National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) RADx Award. “The first aim of this project, which is part of the NIH Rapidly Accelerating … Read more