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An ad hoc committee has been appointed to undertake a routine review of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the UNC School of Medicine and the leadership of its chair, Dr. Myron Cohen. The review is a standard procedure of UNC-Chapel Hill and will take place on Sept. 2, 2025.

The review committee invites your input:

  • If you would like to share feedback with the committee, please reach out to any of the following contacts:
  • The deadline to submit feedback is August 26, 2025 (one week prior).

Note that North Carolina law requires that any written materials developed or received by the committee during the review may be made available to the person reviewed upon request. All requests from the person reviewed will be handled by the legal department and any identifying information will be redacted prior to release of the material.

Members of the Review Committee:

  • Jenny Ting, PhD, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor, Co-Director of the Inflammatory Diseases Institute, Director of the Center for Translational Immunology, Department of Genetics (Committee Chair)
  • Mark Heise, PhD, Professor, Department of Genetics
  • Helen Lazear, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
  • M. Kathryn Menard, MD, MPH, Distinguished Professor, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology