Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Gaurav Dave presents: “Addressing Adverse Social Determinants of Health In Rural North Carolina.”

Dr. Dave is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Director of Abacus Evaluation, and the Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). Dr. Dave trained as an emergency medicine physician in India with a master’s and a doctorate in public health from UNC-Greensboro. He has over 20 years of experience in clinical, public health, and evaluation research. Dr. Dave is an MPI for the National Institutes of Health’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations (RADx-UP). The RADx-UP Program provides critical findings to inform ongoing SARS-CoV-2 public health efforts to improve the reach, acceptance, uptake, and sustainability of COVID-19 testing and prevention in marginalized and vulnerable communities across the United States. Dr. Dave is a Principal Investigator for two NHLBI-funded R01 studies that aim to address adverse social determinants of health associated with chronic disease risk in rural North Carolina. He is also a site Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on multiple grants funded by the National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Dave’s research focuses on mitigating adverse social determinants of health and eliminating health inequities associated with chronic conditions in historically marginalized and rural communities.