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The Inaugural North Carolina Representative Beverly Earle Health Disparities Distinguished Lecture: Advancing Science, Policy, & Practice event will be held on Friday, February 27, 2015 at the UNC Charlotte College of Health and Human Services, CHHS 155 from 10AM-4PM. The lecture event is in conjunction with UNC Chapel Hill’s 36th Annual Minority Health Conference and […]

Film Series: Culture, the Environment and Health – Building an Understanding of Place through Film. All are welcome to join us for five outstanding films – and they are free! These films are made available through the Chancellor’s Diversity Challenge Fund and organized by the Department of Public Health Sciences and Department of Global, International […]

UNC Charlotte Public Health researchers Dr. Bill Saunders and Dr. Elizabeth Racine have partnered up with Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast and Cabarrus County community stakeholders to develop a childhood obesity action plan. Recent numbers suggest that 23% of children in the U.S. are obese and medical care costs for this group can run into billions of […]

As part of the “State of the Region Healthcare Summit 2014” sponsored by the Cabarrus Regional Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Saunders and Dr. Racine presented “Childhood Obesity & Wellness Research” to business leaders in Cabarrus County (click here for newspaper article). Their recently completed Action Plan developed for Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast (CMC-NE) identified five high-priority […]

Dr. Larissa R. Brunner Huber, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, has been invited to speak at the upcoming American Public Health Association meeting in New Orleans, LA. Editors from “Maternal and Child Health Journal” have organized a session related to the research and publishing experiences of authors of some of the top cited articles in the […]

Our study accounted for stroke throughout later life and compared African American and white women and men with and without stroke beginning at the same starting time. Our study was published in a recent issue of Disability and Health Journal as, “Stroke, Disability, and Mortality in the United States: 1999-2009.” Our study extends our research […]

The study looks at how education influences disability for people with cognitive impairment and was published recently in The American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias as, “More Education May Limit Disability and Extend Life for People with Cognitive Impairment.” Our study extends our research on active life expectancy. That is the average length […]

The Department of Public Health Sciences recently hosted a Graduate Programs Open House in the third floor atrium of the College of Health and Human Services. This event was a fantastic opportunity for prospective students to meet and have their questions answered by department faculty, current students, and representatives from the Graduate School. Discussion topics […]

Second year MSPH student, Charnele Walton (pictured second from left), co-led a presentation on the media’s influence on the field of public health. The live webcast was held on Wednesday, October 8th in Charleston, South Carolina which engaged undergraduates student on five college campuses in South Carolina. The presentation was an outgrowth of Charnele’s summer […]

The paper appears in the latest issue of Heath Care for Women International and builds upon previous empirical studies in Armenia conducted by Dr. Thompson and UNC Charlotte HSR PhD alumna Tsovinar Harutyunyan that identified this disconnect in ratings. Lead author Dr. Ruzanna Grigoryan notes that this qualitative study found that cultural and socioeconomic characteristics […]