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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/

Mara Buchbinder, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Social Medicine, is the author of a new book, Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America, which will be published in May by the University of California Press. Mara Buchbinder, PhD https://news.unchealthcare.org/2021/04/new-book-by-mara-buchbinder-to-be-published-in-may/ Here’s how the publisher describes the book in...

Vaccine hesitancy and mistrust of medicine and science dominate current discourse around disparities in who is currently receiving COVID-19 vaccines, a potentially lifesaving prevention strategy. Mistrust of medicine and science is based in a long and sordid history of unethical practice and research on African American, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian...

  Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc, Director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research, was a panelists on WRAL’s “On the Record” Overcoming vaccine reluctance. The panel, led by Lena Tillett, discussed the roots of vaccine hesitancy and refusal and how to overcome these challenges.   https://www.wral.com/on-the-record-march-13-2021-overcoming-vaccine-reluctance/19578416/

A coronavirus variant was detected for the first time inside a U.S. prison. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/11/world/covid-19-coronavirus/a-coronavirus-variant-was-detected-for-the-first-time-inside-a-us-prison