Devlin elected to Action for Children North Carolina board

 

Leah Devlin, DDS, MPH, Gillings Visiting Professor of health policy and management at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been elected to serve a two-year term on the Action for Children North Carolina board of directors. Read more here. 

 

Terms such as "medical malpractice" mean different things in different countries around the world, but understanding quality of medical care is the first step toward reform and improvement, a UNC health policy and management professor told members of Azerbaijan's parliament and representatives of government ministries. Read more here.

Faizullah Kakar, PhD, Afghanistan's Minister for Advising the President on Health Affairs, met Oct. 11 at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health with global health leaders from the UNC schools of public health and medicine. Read more here.

 

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Conille, HPM alumnus, confirmed as Haiti's prime minister 

A 1999 alumnus of UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health was named Haiti's prime minister on Oct. 4.

Garry Conille, MD, MPH, senior U.N. development specialist and former aide to president Bill Clinton, was confirmed by Haiti's senate, hopefully bringing to a close many months of political upheaval in the country. Read more here.

The new wave of fiscal conservatives voted into Congress during the 2010 elections are resetting the national agenda, and this rise of "austerity politics" has important implications for health policy, says Jon Oberlander, PhD, professor of health policy and management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Gillings School of Global Public Health and professor of social medicine in the UNC School of Medicine. Read more here.

Posted: September 01, 2011

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