Co-edited by Claudia S.P. Fernandez, DrPH, and Giselle Corbie, MD, healthcare experts from nurses to social workers present a way forward which shifts away from our fragmented and often judgmental approach to health in the new book Leading Community Based Changes in the Culture of Health in the US – Experiences in Developing the Team … Read more

Rebecca L. Walker, PhD and Jill A. Fisher, PhD from the Department of Social Medicine have published a new survey that identifies how researchers using vertebrate animals viewed issues of significance for translational science. https://news.unchealthcare.org/2021/12/walker-fisher-publish-survey-of-u-s-biomedical-researchers/

Jill A. Fisher, PhD and Rebecca L. Walker, PhD in the UNC Department of Social Medicine are among 24 newly elected Hastings Center fellows, a group of more than 200 individuals of outstanding accomplishment. https://news.unchealthcare.org/2021/12/fisher-walker-elected-as-hastings-center-fellows/

Giselle Corbie, CHER Director, has co-authored an opinion piece for STAT with Warren Kibbe of the Duke Cancer Institute, calling for engaging communities “around how and why data affect them.” https://news.unchealthcare.org/2021/11/corbie-smith-co-authors-opinion-on-data-inclusivity/

Krista Perreira, Professor of Social Medicine, and Jonathan Oberlander, Professor and Chair of Social Medicine, co-authored an article on Hispanic children’s health insurance coverage and use of health services.  The article, which analyzes changes in coverage and barriers to health care access for Hispanic children, appears in a new volume of The Annals of the … Read more

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law JHPPL Call for Paper Proposals On January 22, 1973, the US Supreme Court decided the case of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), ruling that the Due Process clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution protects a “right to privacy,” which includes a pregnant person’s … Read more

October 22, 2021 – Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD, CHER Core Faculty, was a guest on the 50th episode of The Lancet Voice, a podcast focused on global health, policy and clinical research. The episode, “Prison health and COVID-19,” covers US and sub-Saharan African contexts. Brinkley-Rubinstein shares the barriers faced by populations in jails and prisons in … Read more

Krista M. Perreira, a professor of social medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill has led recruitment and retention for the research project since its earliest days. She said the study’s emphasis on diverse heritage groups had helped researchers spot important differences among Hispanic people. https://www.heart.org/en/news/2021/10/08/pioneering-hispanic-health-study-keeps-uncovering-trove-of-info

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 practical issues of research to … Read more

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/