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The Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, seeks applicants for a tenure-track or tenured faculty position in health disparities/health equity at the Assistant to Associate Professor rank. This position will be supported through the UNC Center for Health Equity Research and the Department of Social Medicine. Review of applications will begin September 15^th and continue until the position is filled. The anticipated start date is July 1, 2018.

Please check here for more instructions and requirements for the position. Candidates should apply electronically. Please include a cover letter, a CV, writing sample, and the names and contact information of three professional references. For more information, contact healthequitysearch@med.unc.edu.

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Stephanie Hoover, PhD, joined the UNC Center for Health Equity Research as the new Research Scientist. Dr. Hoover earned her PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Utah, where she investigated social justice training for mental health service providers. Her research interests include culturally adapted interventions for Latinx youth, social justice training for mental health service providers, and participatory and qualitative methods. She currently works on CHER’s community-based participatory research projects alongside community partners, CHER project coordinators, and potential collaborators.

Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc, Director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research will speak at the 2017 Annual Research Meeting (ARM). Her session, titled “Obesity and Opioids: How Planning for, and Changing Practice Guidelines Around, Might Slow these Epidemics”, is scheduled on Tuesday, June 27 from 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting shares important findings, showcases the latest evidence, and moves research into action to improve health and health care. The meeting features compelling sessions, panels on critical and emerging issues in Health Services Research, and presentations of high quality peer-reviewed research.

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Congratulations to CHER Postdoctoral Associate, Tiffany L. Young, PhD for winning the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Gerontology Institute at Georgia State University on April 25.

The Gerontology Institute at Georgia State University has existed for over 30 years and is among the oldest and most accomplished gerontology programs in the Southeast. The Gerontology Institute’s faculty are active researchers and serve in leadership roles in organizations such as the Gerontological Society of America and the Southern Gerontology Society.

This year’s Annual Awards Ceremony and Student Recognition Luncheon wrapped up yet another year of superior academics, significant service, and student achievement. Often times, it is one of the last events that students attend as a student of the Gerontology Institute as they prepare to graduate and begin their professional careers, or further their education. The Gerontology Institute would like to take the time to thank all of their students, faculty, alumni, and affiliates for another amazing year.

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Congratulations to CHER Postdoctoral Associate, Tiffany L. Young, PhD for being named the Social Medicine Postdoc of the Month for May 2017.

Dr. Young and her research team were recently selected to participate in the Community-Based Participatory Research Partnership (CBPR) Academy, which is offered through the Detroit Urban Research Center.

Dr. Young completed her doctorate at the University of South Florida (USF), School of Aging Studies. During her tenure at USF, Dr. Young also earned a cognate in Evaluation from the Department of Educational Measurement & Research. While at USF, her research focused on developing and evaluating community programs for older adults.

You can read more about Dr. Young and her research by visiting our current postdocs page.

The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) recently announced it’s upcoming leadership, which includes UNC CHER director Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc, who will begin her three-year terms as of the annual meeting.

See the annoucement here

President Elect: Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc

Dr. Corbie-Smith is Professor of Social Medicine and Medicine at the School of Medicine and nationally recognized for her scholarly work on the practical and ethical issues regarding the involvement of minorities in research. She directs the Program on Health Disparities at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is also the Director of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute’s Community Academic Resources for Engaged Scholarships (CARES) services, and Co-Director of the Program on Health Disparities through the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.

She is nationally recognized for her scholarly work and has expertise in community-engaged and patient-oriented research. Her empirical work, using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, has focused on the methodological, ethical, and practical issues of research to address racial disparities in health. She has been the principal investigator of grants funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), and the National Human Genome Research Institute, among others. Since 2004, Dr. Corbie-Smith has been the PI on grants to support Project GRACE, a community-academic research partnership in Eastern North Carolina that has developed, tested, and disseminated interventions to prevent HIV and cardiovascular disease.

The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) has also announced that Thomas H. Gallagher, MD will be inducted as the 40th president of SGIM at the 2017 Annual Meeting on April 22, 2017, during the Pass the Gavel Ceremony. Dr. Gallagher will serve a one-year term as president but will be on the Council as an officer for a three-year term.

Other recent elections of new Council officers and members-at-large are:

Treasurer Elect: Mark D. Schwartz, MD

Dr. Mark Schwartz is Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department of Population Health at New York University School of Medicine (NYUSOM)

Council Members-At-Large:

Luci K. Leykum, MD, MBA, MSc

Dr. Luci Leykum is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center – San Antonio.

Monica E. Peek, MD, MPH, MSc

Dr. Monica Peek is an Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Chicago Medicine and Associate Director, Chicago Center for Diabetes Translational Research.

CHER Associate and third-year medical student, Hayley Cunningham, was recently interviewed by Southern Neighbor, a Chapel Hill based news website and publication. In order to help community flourish, Cunningham developed UNC Flourish, a program that strives to equip low-income individuals and families with the knowledge, skills, and support they need to eat well. She says she wants to do her best to help people find health – wherever they are in life.

A year ago, she saw a need for students in the School of Medicine to better understand the contexts of patients with whom they were interacting. The idea for UNC Flourish was born.

UNC Flourish partners with the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle (IFFS) to offer extra Cooking Matters at the Store classes. Effectively, the project acts as a point of access between IFFS and the UNC student population.

Read the full story in Southern Neighbor here.

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CBPR Invitation

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It is our pleasure to announce that Sable Watson-Hopper has been accepted into the doctoral program in the Department of Health Behavior at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

Sable is an alumna of the Gillings School, having earned an MPH in Health Behavior in 2014. Since graduation, she has served as the Project Coordinator for Project GRACE (Growing, Reaching, Advocating for Change and Empowerment), a community-based participatory research (CBPR) collaboration between UNC Chapel Hill and Nash and Edgecombe counties in rural, eastern North Carolina.

Please join us in extending heartfelt congratulations to Sable for this well-deserved accomplishment. We wish her all the best in her future academic endeavors!