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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...

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...

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...

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 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.

Mara Buchbinder’s research on physician stress during the Covid-19 pandemic was highlighted in an article on politics and medicine in the Raleigh News & Observer  

The Merrimon Lecture Thursday, October 26, 2023 12:00 – 1:30 pm EST Location: 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium Download flyer I. Glenn Cohen Deputy Dean and James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics Prof. Cohen...

Jill Fisher won the 2023 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Article Award from the American Sociological Association for her co-authored paper “Gendered Logics of Biomedical Research: Women in U.S. Phase I Clinical Trials” that was published in 2022 in the journal Social Problems. https://asasexandgender.wordpress.com/awards/

A team led by Kathleen Mullan Harris and Krista M. Perreira (MPIs)  at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Joseph Hotz and Naomi Duke (MPIs) at Duke University have received a five-year, $25.3 million National Institute of Aging (NIA) award. The award will address gaps in our...

Dr. Jill A. Fisher is the recipient of a three-year grant from the National Library of Medicine (NIH) to support the writing of a scholarly book on the medicalization and pharmaceuticalization of food allergies. Tentatively titled “Challenging Allergies: The Search for a Magic Bullet for Pediatric Food Allergies,” the book will explore how US...