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The 2026 faculty service award winner tackles complex health challenges with community partners while training Carolina students to do the same.

Tasseli McKay, PhD was invited to join the Fifth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Persons of African Descent, which took place at the UN’s Geneva headquarters in April. Dr. McKay delivered oral testimony on the UN floor as part of the Forum’s reparatory justice deliberations. She also...

The UNC Center for Bioethics and its Clinical Ethics Program, in collaboration with the Hospital Ethics Committee and Clinical Ethics Service in UNC Hospitals, offers the Clinical Ethics Pathway, a two-year program for upper-level residents. The program, led by Social Medicine faculty Arlene Davis, JD, Jean Cadigan, PhD, and Rimma...

The Alan W. Cross Social Medicine Paper Award recognizes exceptional scholarship by students in social medicine. Such work epitomizes the integration of social and clinical thinking, applies social science and humanities perspectives to the world of science, and exemplifies creative efforts to convey or represent the experiences of patients, physicians,...

Each year, the Department of Social Medicine selects a member of the graduating class “who over four years of undergraduate medical training, demonstrates both academic excellence in and practical commitment to the principles of Social Medicine” to receive the Cecil G. Sheps Award. Anna Ilyasova received the 2026 award in...

This year has seen exciting progress on the PREPARE (PRomoting Equity for Pregnant Adolescents in Research) project. Led by Social Medicine faculty Anne D. Lyerly, MD, MA and Suzanne Day, PhD, PREPARE is an NIH-funded study that addresses a long-overlooked gap in biomedical HIV prevention and treatment research: despite major...