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Giselle is nationally known for her scholarly work on the inclusion of disparity populations in research and has over a decade of experience in using community engagement to conduct innovative, translational health equity research. Her empirical work, using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, has focused on the methodological, ethical and...

Tonia Poteat, PhD, CHER Core Faculty, and colleagues have published research on transgender women’s intervention preferences for addressing HIV vulnerability determinants.   https://news.unchealthcare.org/2021/08/poteat-and-colleagues-publish-transgender-women-and-hiv-research-in-bmc-public-health/

American Sociological Association announced Jill Fisher’s book, Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals, is the 2021 winner of the Robert K. Merton Book Award, from the ASA’s Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section. https://news.unchealthcare.org/2021/08/fisher-receives-robert-k-merton-book-award/  

Rebecca Walker discusses the ethics of asking persons about vaccine status:  https://abc11.com/10941180/  

Jonathan Oberlander, Professor and Chair of the UNC Department of Social Medicine, and Professor of Health Policy & Management, is editor of a new special issue on the Biden Administration’s health care agenda that appears in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.  Articles in the special issue explore...

Tonia Poteat, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine and CHER Core Faculty member, and colleagues published research in the journal Cancer on delays in breast cancer care by race and sexual orientation.   https://news.unchealthcare.org/2021/08/poteat-colleagues-publish-breast-cancer-care-research/ https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cncr.33629

First-year college students are reporting drinking less alcohol and having fewer episodes of binge drinking four months into the coronavirus pandemic than they were before the pandemic started, according to a study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. https://www.cpc.unc.edu/news/drinking-among-first-year-college-students-decreases-during-pandemic/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1054139X2100327X?dgcid=author

Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Social Medicine, is the lead author of a research letter published in the July 7, 2021 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2108479

Social Medicine statement on Nikole Hannah-Jones

Arlene M. Davis, JD Arlene M. Davis, JD, associate professor in the UNC Department of Social Medicine and director of the Clinical Ethics Service at UNC Hospitals, has been named director of the UNC Center for Bioethics, effective July 1. https://news.unchealthcare.org/2021/06/davis-named-director-of-unc-center-for-bioethics/