 Research by Dr. Noel Brewer and Dr. Jennifer Smith may inform North Carolina policy on HPV vaccination for girls and young women.
The spirit of inquiry and the drive to have a
positive impact on the health of the public are alive and well in our SPH
faculty, staff and students, as attested to by their many innovative research
undertakings.
Having a
faculty actively involved in innovative research and scholarship, whose
teaching is transformed by discovery and whose service is informed by current
knowledge is fundamental to being a research university
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The vast majority of our
faculty actively engage in some type of research activity. Moreover, they seek to ensure that
their research findings are translated into effective public health practices
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Noel T. Brewer, PhD, Assistant Professor,
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, studies the psychology of
medical decision making. Currently, Dr. Brewer and his colleagues, including
Jennifer Smith, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology,
are studying why girls and young women get the human papillomavirus (HPV)
vaccine, the first vaccine that can prevent much of cervical cancer. Read more..
Click here for further examples of our research impact. |
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