Diane Rowley, MD, MPH, professor of the practice of public health in maternal and child health, recently published "Contextualized stress, global stress and depression in well-educated, pregnant, African-American women" in Women's Health Issues 2012;22(3):e329-336.

 

Jon Hussey, PhD, research assistant professor, and Carolyn Halpern, PhD, professor in maternal and child health co-authored "Adolescent expectations of early death predict young adult socioeconomic status" in Social Science & Medicine 2012;74(9):1452-60.

Kristina Simeonsson, MD, MSPH (MCH '03), assistant professor of pediatrics at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, has been named a 2012 Childhood Immunization Champion by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The award honors individuals who are doing an exemplary job to promote and foster childhood immunizations in their communities. [Read more]

Heidi Reynolds, PhD (MCH '02), Winifred Luseno, doctoral student, and Ilene Speizer, PhD, research associate professor in maternal and child health recently published "The measurement of condom use in four countries in East and Southern Africa" in AIDS and Behavior 2012;16:1044-53.

 

Ilene Speizer, PhD, research associate professor in maternal and child health recently published "Individual and community-level tolerance of spouse abuse and the association with circumstances of first sex among youth from six sub-Saharan African countries" in AIDS Care 2012;24(3):291-300.

 

Alison Doernberg, first-year master's student, has been named recipient of the Curtis Glenn Southward Award in community mental health for fall 2012.

Melissa Sanchez, first-year master's student, has been named recipient of the Jean T. Lassiter Scholarship for fall 2012.

Bronwyn Glenn Lucas, MPH (MCH '00) received the Sidney S. Chipman MCH Alumni Award for her outstanding contributions to the field of MCH. Currently, she is executive director of Youth Empowerment Solutions (YES!)

Kathy Parry, master's student, and Emily Taylor, director of Baby-Friendly Health Care project recently accepted the Robert E. Bryan Public Service Award for the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute's Breastfeeding-Friendly Healthcare Initiative and for its student group, Carolina Birth and Breastfeeding: Evidence Based Education and Support (BEBES). [Read more]

Pamela Shields, MCH master's student who leads the Spanish practice student group at the School, led a virtual exchange with students at the Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca Mexico on public health priorities in both Mexico and the U.S. [Read more]

Kavita Singh Ongechi, PhD, research assistant professor in maternal and child health, and Erica Haney, MPH, second-year doctoral student in maternal and child health, recently published in AIDS Care on understanding the importance of caregiver practices and messages to orphans on HIV prevention in Zimbabwe. [See article]

This new course responds to an increased interest and awareness of global public health and the corresponding need to understand sexual and reproductive health in a global public health context. Instructor, Trude Bennett, MSW, MPH, DrPH, associate professor in maternal and child health, has organized a distinguished group of lecturers from UNC faculty and other cooperative relationships. [Read more] 

 

Diane Rowley, MD, MPH, professor of the practice of public health in maternal and child health developed a new course for this semester entitled "Introduction to Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities". [Read more]

Launching MCH Distance Education

A 3 1/2 day workshop is part of a three-course, 10 credit-hour program for a Certificate in MCH Leadership. Participating MCH students (L-R) are standing: Micahel Munishi, residential MPH, Pam Shields, residendial MPH, Katie Clark, online MSPH, Tara Ilsley, online MPH, Paula Carazo, online MPH, Jessie Viders, MCH leadership certificate, Daphyne Williams, MCH leadership certificate, and front: Tara Gaston online MPH, Alane Murdock, residential PhD, and Andrea Hernandez, MCH leadership certificate.