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AJPH special issue on mass incarceration as a driver of health inequities. No other industrialized democracy has a carceral system that is as expansive, punitive, and racialized as that of the United States. More than 2.2 million people in 2018 were incarcerated in jails and prisons, a sixfold increase since...

Providing a Safe Place for All Patients: Tonia Poteat interview with the American Academy of PAs Before becoming a PA, or even knowing about the profession, Tonia Poteat, PhD, MPH, PA-C, DFAAPA, knew she wanted to provide care to people living with HIV. “I was really interested in being a...

Discover magazine top science stories of 2019:  Scientists Put a Human Intelligence Gene Into a Monkey. Other Scientists are Concerned. Rebecca Walker  speaks with Discover magazine on scientists’ putting an “intelligence” gene in nonhuman primates. https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/scientists-put-a-human-intelligence-gene-into-a-monkey-other-scientists-are  

Jonathan Oberlander, PhD, chair of the Department of Social Medicine, coauthored a perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine on efforts in Congress to pass legislation that would regulate prescription drug prices. http://news.unchealthcare.org/som-vital-signs/2019/dec-12/oberlander-coauthors-nejm-commentary-on-prescription-drug-spending?utm_source=vs-email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=50

The commentary, by Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD, professor of social medicine and associate director of the UNC Center for Bioethics, argues that the WHO’s recommendation of dolutegravir as an HIV treatment for all populations was a significant advancement in the ethical inclusion of pregnant women in biomedical research. An invited...

Multiple forms of stigma may increase risk for mental illness and cardiovascular disease among Black and Latina Transgender Women Living with HIV. The research, led by Tonia Poteat, PhD, MPH, PA-C, in the Department of Social Medicine is highlighting the ways that stigma and stress affect health outcomes for Black...

Krista Perreira, publishes article in The Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies special issue on “Children of Immigrants in an Age of Deportation.”  Integrating Hispanic immigrant youth: perspectives from white and black Americans in emerging Hispanic communities and schools. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2019.1667512    

At the recent American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Mara Buchbinder, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine was awarded the Polgar prize, which is awarded to a professional medical anthropologist for the best paper published in Medical Anthropology Quarterly during the last year’s volume. The paper is: Buchbinder,...

Voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention among adolescents in Kenya: Unintended consequences of pursuing service-delivery targets https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0224548

“Everyone deserves a chance to be healthy in this country and in this state. And that’s why I do the work that I do,” said Dr. Giselle Corbie-Smith, director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research. https://thewell.unc.edu/2019/11/05/health-equity-is-a-matter-of-health-quality-for-e-k-graham-award-winner/