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Knittel study examines incarceration among women at risk for HIV

February 24, 2021

New Rochelle, NY, February 17, 2021—Nearly half (46.7%) of women in the U.S. at risk for HIV have been incarcerated, according to a new study. The study is published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Women’s Health. Click here to read the article now. The incarceration rate for women at risk for HIV was 5.5 per 100 person-years, compared … Read more

Gates Foundation awards UNC Global Women’s Health $6.2 million to study pregnancy outcomes in Zambia

December 10, 2020

UNC Global Women’s Health has received two new grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for work on pregnancy outcomes in Zambia. The first grant funds the “Multi-omics for Mother and Infants (MOMI) Consortium,” which seeks to identify new predictive biomarkers for preterm birth, preeclampsia, stillbirth and fetal growth restriction. UNC Project-Zambia is one of … Read more

Knittel appointed as Women’s Reproductive Health Research Scholar

December 2, 2020

The UNC Women’s Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Career Development Program is pleased to announce that Andrea Knittel, MD, PhD, FACOG, has been appointed as a WRHR Scholar effective December 1, 2020. Dr. Knittel completed her research fellowship in the Division of General Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2018 and was subsequently appointed Assistant Professor of Obstetrics … Read more

CenteringPregnancy® at UNC: Group 48 Finds Community through a Pandemic

October 7, 2020

by Shannon Keller, CNM As my excitement to meet new families and see their friendships begin with the start of a new CenteringPregnancy® group rose, a new threat to this connection— COVID-19—hit the world.  At UNC, we did not cancel our centering groups. Instead we transitioned to  a virtual social group for women and their … Read more

Elisabeth Johnson, PhD, NP receives the CARN-AP Carolyn Jewell “Steel Magnolia” Scholarship

June 23, 2020

In 2018, the Addictions Nursing Certification Board (ANCB) initiated the annual Carolyn Jewell “Steel Magnolia” Scholarship to honor Carolyn’s work in providing care for patients with addictions and to encourage others to promote the mission of healing. Elisabeth Johnson, PhD, NP, UNC Horizons’ Director of Health Services, was awarded the CARN-AP Carolyn Jewell “Steel Magnolia” … Read more

A message from UNC Midwives on CenteringPregnancy and COVID-19

March 10, 2020

A message from UNC Midwives on CenteringPregnancy and COVID-19 Dear Centering Pregnancy Participants UNC Health is closely monitoring the spread of COVID-19. Due to the group nature of the Centering Pregnancy program, we would ask that participants who are at risk for COVID-19 not attend the group as planned and instead call the office. If … Read more

Neeta Vora, MD, receives pilot grant to advance non-invasive prenatal genetic testing

March 1, 2020

UNC Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH), which aims to transform patient care through evidence-based precision medicine, and the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) have awarded four pilot grants for project that have direct clinical or human translational impact … Read more