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At UNC Public Health is Global Health!
Welcome to the website for the Office of Global Health in the School of Public Health
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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News Global health projects funded in first round of Gillings Innovation Labs
April 23, 2008
Three Gillings Innovation Labs, funded by the Carolina Public Health Solutions program, will focus on important topics related to health in the developing world.
- Single-dose vaccine for multiple respiratory viruses in infants and children (PI: Ralph Baric)
- Portable field tests for fecal contamination of water (PI: Mark Sobsey)
- Methods to explain origins of air pollution health effects and plan effective remediation (PI: William Vizuete)
These GILs, along with a study of the North Carolina mental health system and a plan to study data collection to improve disease management, join two other labs named last fall – the Center
for Innovative Clinical Trials and the Carolina Global Water Partnership for the first round of funding by CPHS. [more]
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What is Global Health?
Global Health may be defined as "health problems
that transcend national boundaries, that may be influenced by
circumstances or experiences in other countries, and that are best
addressed by cooperative actions, and solutions; whether they occur in
developing countries, countries in advanced transition, or
industrialized countries." Research interests of some of the faculty
and students in the UNC School of Public Health include infectious
diseases, immigrant health, water resource planning, bioethics, infant
nutrition, reproductive health, domestic violence, and obesity.
Source: Institute of Medicine, America’s Vital Interest in Global Health, Washington DC, National Academies Press, 1997.
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Last updated May 06, 2008 |
