Category: Global Women’s Health

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. —The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology is proud to announce that physicians within our program have developed a novel artificial intelligence–enabled ultrasound technology that has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The technology, invented by Drs. Jeffrey Stringer, Ben Pokaprakarn, and Juan Prieto,...

When a clinician has to make decisions about a pregnancy without knowing how far along it truly is, every choice becomes harder — and riskier. Early in his career working in Zambia, Dr. Jeffrey Stringer saw this reality play out every day, as the absence of ultrasound forced providers to...

We are proud to share that Dr. Friday Saidi, Research Assistant Professor in our Department, attended the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) Congress in Cape Town as a representative of the Association of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists of Malawi (AOGM), which like ACOG, is a member organization of FIGO....

Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, FACOG, has been awarded $2.5M over five years by the National Institutes of Health for her research focused on improving human papillomavirus treatment outcomes in women living with HIV in Africa. Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, FACOG, has been awarded $2.5M over five years by the National...

UNC-Chapel Hill and University of Zambia researchers are using cutting-edge medical devices, machine learning and artificial intelligence to tackle global maternal and child health issues while providing quality services to women and children in Zambia.

Lameck Chinula, MBBS, MMED, an Associate Professor of obstetrics and gynecology, recently graduated from the IGCS Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Training Program, a comprehensive two-year education and training program designed for regions around the world that do not currently have formal training in gynecologic oncology. He is the first from Malawi...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Dr. Katelyn Rittenhouse, Global Women’s Health Fellow, has been awarded a K23 Career Development Award from the NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Her project, titled AI-Assisted Ultrasound for Early Pregnancy Localization, aims to improve the diagnosis of ectopic...

magine being able to walk into a hospital and perform a basic medical procedure with no previous experience. A portable ultrasound device developed at UNC-Chapel Hill is designed to be used by people with little to no training. The low-cost device guides users through taking a basic ultrasound, then uses...

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Katelyn Rittenhouse’s proposal, “Fetal Age and Machine Learning Initiative: Improving Pregnancy Evaluation in Low-Resource Settings (FAMLI),” has been selected for the EQT Foundation’s Breakthrough Science: Women’s Health Grant. This award recognizes bold, transformative ideas with the potential to drive meaningful change in women’s...

Chapel Hill, NC — Dr. Jeffrey S. A. Stringer, a leading researcher from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been awarded a prestigious research and development grant from NCInnovation as part of a $13.6 million investment in university-led innovation across North Carolina. His project, one of only...

More than 300,000 North Carolina women ages 18 through 44 live in an area that doesn’t have enough hospitals or birthing centers – or in in some cases, any at all. That’s according to data from the March of Dimes. Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill are using AI technology to provide more...