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Category: Infectious Diseases

  • David Weber, MD, MPH, is a professor of medicine and pediatrics in the UNC School of Medicine and a professor of epidemiology in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

    Weber and Colleagues Earn Award for Publication Excellence

    In 2017, Dr. David Weber and colleagues published a study in the American Journal of Infection Control about the effectiveness of ultraviolet light and hydrogen peroxide for cleaning hospital rooms. As the most read study, it recently earned an award of publication excellence.

  • Michelle Floris-Moore, MD

    Floris-Moore Joins HIVMA Board

    Michelle Floris-Moore, MD, MS has been elected to serve board of directors for the HIV Medicine Association.

  • Jonathan Juliano, MD, MSPH

    Dr. Jonathan Juliano is named Yang Family Biomedical Scholar

    The award, which recognizes the research achievements of young tenured faculty, is made possible through a generous donation from Lenovo chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang, with additional financial support from Mr. To Hing Wu.

  • Claire Farel, MD, MPH, received a 2018 Red Ribbon Award from the NCCAF.

    Farel and Mathews, Honored with Red Ribbon Awards

    Faculty and staff from UNC’s Institute of Global Health & Infectious Diseases were well represented at the 2018 Red Ribbon Gala, hosted by the North Carolina Community AIDS Fund.

  • UNC experts respond to CDC’s advisory regarding increase in mosquito and tick borne illnesses

    The CDC recently issued a report on the rising rates of tick and mosquito borne illnesses across the United States. In an interview with CNN, Myron Cohen, MD, spoke about the importance of the advisory and increasing public awareness. David Weber, MD, MPH, spoke with the New York Times about how to protect yourself from mosquitoes and ticks.

  • Jonathan Juliano, MD, MSPH

    Juliano Fights Antimalarial Resistance

    Jonathan Juliano, MD, MSPH, associate professor of medicine, has been asked to join the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network’s (WWARN) Scientific Advisory Committee.

  • Janet Rubin, MD, Ada Adimora, MD, MPH, and David Margolis, MD

    UNC School of Medicine Announces Three New Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professors

    Three exemplary physician-scientists at the UNC School of Medicine – David Margolis, MD, Ada Adimora, MD, MPH, and Janet Rubin, MD – have been named Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professors.

  • Robin Akins connects patients with clinicians at the UNC ID Clinic.

    Bridge Counselors Engage Patients in Care

    Robin Akins remembers receiving a phone call from a patient living with HIV she had been trying to reach for months. Dealing with the sudden loss of a family member had prevented the patient from keeping appointments at the UNC Infectious Diseases (ID) Clinic. Akins works as the clinic’s bridge counselor, ensuring people living with HIV remain in care.

  • Research Highlights: Infectious Diseases

    Mina Hosseinipour Women compromised 59 percent of adults living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa in 2014 according to the World Health Organization. Creating HIV prevention efforts that target women is critical to stopping new infections. Mina Hosseinipour, MD, MPH, is scientific director of UNC Project-Malawi in Lilongwe, Malawi, and a professor of medicine at UNC. She is co-chair … Read more

  • Drs. Ada Adimora, Joe Eron and Stephen Cole

    New Approaches to HIV Clinical Trials for Black Women and HIV

    US black women and HIV prevention is the focus of a new intervention strategy by Drs. Ada Adimora, Joe Eron and Stephen Cole in the department of medicine’s division of infectious diseases.

  • Dr. Myron Cohen Researches Antibodies to Develop HIV Vaccine

    In observance of World AIDS Day, WRAL News interviewed Dr. Myron Cohen from the division of infectious diseases about UNC research that will help develop an HIV vaccine.

  • Dr. Donna Evon

    New study aims to address the opioid crisis in western North Carolina

    Three UNC researchers, two from the department of medicine, are joining forces with investigators at RTI International to devise solutions to address the opioid epidemic and related public health problems in eight counties in North Carolina’s western tip.