Gillings, chairman and chief executive officer of Quintiles Transnational Corp., is a former UNC biostatistics professor and a current member of the School’s Advisory Council. Joan has had careers in public health, including the Carolina School of Public Health, and in commercial real estate.

In recognition of this gift, the School of Public Health will be named the “Gillings School of Global Public Health.”

Although the Carolina School of Public Health has long been known for its outstanding research, teaching and practice, we now have the opportunity to bring this work to the scale needed to achieve profound state, national and global impact. This transformative gift will enable our School to acquire critical resources to accelerate solutions to public health problems across North Carolina and around the world.