Raul Necochea, receives Foundation Phase Teaching Excellence Award
June 8, 2023
Academy of Educators Names 2022-23 Teaching Award Recipients
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Giselle Corbie interviewed in New York Times Article: Addiction Treatment Medicine Is Vastly Underprescribed, Especially by Race, Study Finds
May 12, 2023
Addiction Treatment Medicine Is Vastly Underprescribed, Especially by Race, Study Finds Black patients with opioid use disorder were far less likely to fill prescriptions for the most effective addiction treatments than white patients. But strikingly few patients of all races got the medicine. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/health/addiction-treatment-buprenorphine-suboxone.html
Giselle Corbie receives the Ned Brooks for Public Service Award
April 13, 2023
This year’s Ned Brooks award went to Giselle Corbie, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine; Director, Center for Health Equity Research; Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. Corbie was recognized for her distinguished and sustained record of service to Carolina and the larger community. Corbie is noted for her dedication and...
Buchbinder moderates NC Policy Watch faith and abortion panel.
March 28, 2023
https://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2023/03/23/more-important-than-ever-unc-panel-talks-faith-and-abortion/#sthash.dzZnChoD.K0hlOwEG.dpbs
Anne Lyerly featured interview with NPR.
March 13, 2023
NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe talks to Dr. Anne Lyerly, a professor and OB-GYN, about how hospital ethics boards are being invoked when a patient requires a medical exception to an abortion ban. https://www.npr.org/2023/03/12/1162917337/in-states-with-abortion-bans-hospital-ethics-boards-have-the-power-to-make-excep
Anne Drapkin Lyerly has been elected as a new fellow of the Hastings Center
February 17, 2023
The Hastings Center is pleased to announce the election of 12 new fellows. Hastings Center fellows are a group of more than 200 individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, science, and technology. The new fellows focus...
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.
February 3, 2023
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,...
STEPPS new recommendations address crisis of physician stress, a project led by Mara Buchbinder
February 3, 2023
New recommendations address crisis of physician stress
Gail Henderson coauthored a new book, Bioethics Reenvisioned: A Path Toward Health Justice
January 4, 2023
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...
Giselle Corbie Named Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
January 4, 2023
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/