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Recent News
3 days ago
Jonathan Oberlander, PhD, is co-editor of a new special issue on “The Price of Progress” published by the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law.
Jonathan Oberlander, PhD, is co-editor of a new special issue on “The Price of Progress: Managing Prescription Drug Spending” published by the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law. The issue considers the sources of high drug spending in the U.S. and policy reforms to make prescription drugs more affordable, including analysis of provisions of …
3 days ago
STEPPS new recommendations address crisis of physician stress, a project led by Mara Buchbinder
New recommendations address crisis of physician stress
1 month ago
Gail Henderson coauthored a new book, Bioethics Reenvisioned: A Path Toward Health Justice
Gail Henderson, PhD, coauthored a new book, Bioethics Reenvisioned: A Path Toward HealthJustice (UNC Press, 2022). The book, coauthored with two former Social Medicine faculty members,Nancy King and Larry Churchill, argues it is time for bioethics to take full account of the problems ofhealth disparities and structural injustice that are made newly urgent by the …
1 month ago
Giselle Corbie Named Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Giselle Corbie, MD, Director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research and Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine, has been named the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill. https://www.med.unc.edu/medicine/dr-giselle-corbie-named-vice-provost-for-faculty-affairs/