Dean Barbara K. Rimer, our faculty and staff, and many of our students have blogs about public health and other issues of interest. Some of the blogs, along with a select few from our partner organization, are listed below.

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Faculty blogs

Blog title	Author	Topic
Monday Morning	Barbara K. Rimer, Dean, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health	Issues of the day and a variety of topics
On the Table	Suzanne Hobbs, DrPH, clinical associate professor of health policy and management and nutrition, and director, Doctoral Program in Health Leadership	Diet, health and the policies that influence health-supporting lifestyle choices
SantéCarolina	Tom Ricketts, professor of health policy and management	A blog that connects the public health worlds of France and the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Global Bioethics Blog	Stuart Rennie, research assistant professor of health policy and management	Reflection on bioethics and research ethics issues in sub-Saharan Africa
Gillings Sustainable Agriculture Project	Alice Ammerman, professor of nutrition and Director of the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention	Updates concerning her Gillings Innovative Laboratory, which studies the public health impact of moving toward a local, sustainable food system
My Favorite Diseases	Amy N.	Principles and Methods of Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology
3 Squares	Amanda S. Holliday, clinical assistant professor of nutrition	A nutrition blog for active older adults

Student blogs

Blog title	Author	Topic
Upstream	Students in the Interdisciplinary Health Communication program	Dialogue and debate on health communication
Wellness Policy	Lindsey Haynes-Maslow, doctoral student, Department of Health Policy and Management	Tips on healthy living, recipes, obesity prevention research and information
Wright on Health	Brad Wright, doctoral student, Department of Health Policy and Management	The ins and outs of our health care system
topnaman	Naman Shah, MD/PhD student, public health and medicine	Malaria news and discussion
Nutritionella	Elle Curtin, master's student the Department of Nutrition	A creative outlet for food, nutrition, fitness, fashion and photography
Interns 2 India	Shelley Marcus, master's student in the Department of Nutrition, and Robert Wallace, master's student in the Department of Health Policy and Management	Assisting GRAVIS in their efforts to improve the health of the poor and marginalized populations of the Thar dessert region of Rajasthan
Shane Goes to Guinea	Shane Capps, recent graduate of the Department of Health Policy and Management	Experience with the Peace Corps in Guinea as a Public Health Educator for community health programs

Partner and media blogs

Blog title	Author	Topic
UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases	Lisa Chensvold, UNC students and faculty	Blogging all things global health at UNC-Chapel Hill
Roper on Health	William L. Roper, Dean, UNC School of Medicine	Varies
UNC Health Care's Weblog	UNC Medical Center News Office	Medicine and research related to UNC
American Society for Nutrition	Professionals and academics in the field of nutrition	Nutrition research and outreach
The Pump Handle	Environmental health academics and practitioners	Public health and the environment
Get Ready for Flu	American Public Health Association	Personal hazard and disaster preparedness
Health Blog -- Public Health	Wall Street Journal	News and analysis on health and the business of health.
Hard Science	Les Lang, UNC Medical Center News Office	UNC biomedical research

The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health does not manage nor endorse the content of the blogs on this page. Please address concerns about a particular blog to the blog author, and concerns about this compilation to sphcomm@listserv.unc.edu.