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A UNC Charlotte team, led by Dr. Shi Chen, has received nearly $750,000 in a highly competitive three-year U01 (cooperative agreement) grant from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop novel mathematical models of infectious diseases and train the next-generation healthcare research workforce. Researchers from the Department of Public Health Sciences […]

Isaac Olufadewa was selected to attend as one of the moderators/speakers on the ‘health equity’ theme at the prestigious One Young World 2022 Manchester Summit. Public Health Sciences Ph.D. student, Isaac Olufadewa, was selected as one of the young global scholars to attend the One Young World 2022 Summit in Manchester, United Kingdom, from 5-8 […]

In the last 20 years, happiness has emerged as a study with a scientific basis. UNC Charlotte faculty and students are finding how it can teach us all to lead better and more rewarding lives. At the height of the pandemic, two public health professors—Deborah Beete and Alicia Dahl—started taking walks at Freedom Park for […]

Dr. Michele Issel, a public health professor emerita at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, discusses how the division between political parties in the United States is negatively impacting the public’s health. UNC Charlotte’s Niner Insider recognizes Dr. Michele Issel On August 2nd, Dr. Michele Issel was referenced in the Media Highlight section of […]

Sasha Zabelski’s parents fled Ukraine months before she was born. Now she rediscovers a connection to her home country through political activism and outreach on the conflict. Ukrainian Immigrants Begin New Life in U.S. Before she was born, Sasha Zabelski’s parents fled to New York City from Kiev. It had been two years since the […]

Emery Ngamasana went home after almost two decades away. What he saw moved him to create a nonprofit that improves the conditions of the rural communities he came from. Going Home to the Democratic Republic of the Congo after 20 Years Emery Ngamasana, a Ph.D. student in public health at UNC Charlotte, grew up in […]

In 2019, Loaves & Fishes/Friendship Trays fed over 80,000 Charlotte residents, enough to fill Bank of America Stadium. In 2020, that number jumped to over 120,000. “We saw a dramatic, overnight increase in food insecurity during the pandemic,” explained Tina Postel, CEO of Loaves & Fishes/Friendship Trays. In May of 2021, the two organizations merged […]

UNC Charlotte will soon be able to build sustainable trauma-focused, resilience-oriented campus suicide prevention policies, programs and networks thanks to the three-year Garrett Lee Smith Campus Suicide Prevention grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The grant totals about $300,000 over three years and will start on Sept. 30. “This was […]

Join us for the Health Systems Management (HSMT) Information Session on Tuesday, August 24, 1-2pm in CHHS 131. This event is open to anyone interested in learning about the HSMT program at UNC Charlotte or the health systems management field in general. The session will cover general program information, discuss career prospects, and answer questions. […]

UNC Charlotte graduate Andrea Badillo-Perez was accepted to Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Penn, Duke, Virginia, Georgetown, UNC-Chapel Hill, Miami and NYU. She’s graduating with degrees in biology and psychology and a minor in public health. Read more from Fox 46