Former International Visiting Student and now Post-Doctoral Fellow, Apoorve Nayyar, presented research regarding sexual harassment among women surgeons. While the study is not yet published, it has won the 2019 Association for Academic Surgeons Best Overall Abstract Award, the 2019 AAS Outstanding Resident Research Award for Outcomes, and the Society of Asian Academic Surgeons best Academic Surgical Congress (ASC) Abstract Award.

Former OIA Global Health Scholar, Ross Boyce, MD, MSC draws on his military experience to provide care and help overcome access issues in rural Uganda. He has been awarded a Challenge Grant by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support his work.

Mirriam Munthali, who is in her fourth year at the Malawi College of Medicine, spent the summer in Chapel Hill as a part of the UNC Partner Site Student Scholarship, sponsored by the UNC School of Medicine’s Office of International Activities.

UNC MD Candidates, Shannon Herndon and Lauren Ellis presented their  poster “A qualitative case study of the Austral Institute in Neuquen, Argentina: A community healthcare model in Latin America” at the AAFP Global Health Summit this past week in Jacksonville, FL.  

OIA Global Health Scholar, Erica Bjornstad, MD, and third-year pediatric nephrology fellow is studying the epidemiology of acute kidney injury in Malawi.

This June, OIA Program Manager, Shay Slifko, was able to make her first journey to the popular elective site and got a first-hand look at what these global health electives entail.

Senior Emergency Medicine Resident Nadeem Modan, MD, received first place in the 2018 Annual Emergency Medicine Resident Day of Scholarship for his role in an ongoing global health project aimed towards expanding acute care availability in India.

A study led by UNC’s Sylvia Becker-Dreps, MD, MPH, reviewed more than 675,000 pregnancies in the U.S. to determine if the Tdap vaccine given to a mother will reduce the chances of her child developing pertussis during the first 18 months of life.

The OIA Director, Dr. Martha Carlough attends the 2018 North American Refugee Health Conference with UNC Medical Students for poster presentation.

The OIA is proud to announce the upcoming release of North Carolina Children’s Global Health Handbook- by one of our 2017 OIA Resident Global Health Scholars, Erica Bjornstad, MD, MPH

Check out this great article in UNC Global’s Carolina Passport about the exciting work our UNC Medical Students are doing around the world.