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Fisher Co-authors New Report on Universities’ Support for Academic Couples

June 25, 2024
Jill Fisher,  Professor of Social Medicine and Core Faculty in the Center for Bioethics, has co-authored a new study ranking research universities’ support for academic couples, including for partner hires.  Fisher’s work with Torin Monahan on dual-career academic couples was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher...

Oberlander Edits Special Issue on Polarization, Partisanship and Health

June 17, 2024
Jonathan Oberlander, Chair and Professor of Social Medicine and Professor of Health Policy & Management, is editor of a new special issue in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law on Polarization, Partisanship, and Health in the United States. In the lead essay, Oberlander argues that partisan divisions between Democrats and...

Lyerly Is Lead Author of Article In The Hastings Center Report

June 13, 2024
Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD, professor of Social Medicine, core faculty in the Center of Bioethics, and research professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the UNC School of Medicine, is lead author of “Beneath the Sword of Damocles: Moral Obligations of Physicians in a Post-Dobbs Landscape.” Lyerly is Lead Author of...

The Hastings Center Names Dr. Mara Buchbinder Fellow, 2023

January 26, 2024
Dr. Mara Buchbinder has been named as 1 of 13 new fellows elected by The Hastings Center for 2023. Hastings Center Welcomes 13 New Fellows  

Dr. Mara Buchbinder and Colleagues Document Health Provider Impacts from Post-Dobbs Abortion Bans

January 26, 2024
Dr. Mara Buchbinder, and colleagues at the UNC School of Medicine and Harvard University, has a new piece out in JAMA Network Open on how OB-GYNs perceive the impacts of state abortion bans post-Dobbs, as well as an accompanying editorial in The News & Observer.