School of Public Health News from UNC

Advocating healthier school lunches: Ammerman and Hobbs featured in The Gazette

tcaldero@email.unc.edu (Tirza Calderon) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:06:04 PST

This article by Gary Moss originally appeared in the Feb. 8 issue of The University Gazette. It is reprinted here with permission.

Eight faculty members win inaugural Teaching Innovation Awards

kastlema@email.unc.edu (Linda Kastleman) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:13:18 PST

Eight faculty members at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health � one from each academic unit at the School � were selected by their students to receive the School�s inaugural Teaching Innovation Awards at

Student social entrepreneurs provided with resources to commercialize water quality test

tcaldero@email.unc.edu (Tirza Calderon) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:27:53 PST

A new method of detecting bacteria in water and on food and hands may soon help reduce the global burden of infectious disease after a team of

Helping children of incarcerated parents is goal of symposium

kastlema@email.unc.edu (Linda Kastleman) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:33:42 PST

What happens to the children of people in prison? And what can be done to protect them and improve their lives? Policy makers, professionals, students and others will gather for a symposium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to explore ways that policies and partnerships can help meet the needs of children of incarcerated parents.

The North Carolina Institute for Public Health, part of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has partnered with Our Children�s Place, a private nonprofit agency, to host �What About the Children?� on Feb. 14 at the William and Ida Friday Center

Singer honored for leadership and service in Chapel Hill-Durham community

kastlema@email.unc.edu (Linda Kastleman) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:20:18 PST

Philip Singer, PhD, and his wife, Ellen Singer, have been honored by the Jewish Federation of Durham-Chapel Hill for their leadership and service to the community. The couple will accept the Sara and Mutt Evans Leadership Award on Feb. 4 at the federation�s kickoff celebration at the Levin Jewish Community Center in Durham, N.C.

Dr. Singer, a recently retired distinguished professor of environmental sciences and engineering at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, now is an adjunct professor

School launches �Celebrate Teaching!� Month in February

kastlema@email.unc.edu (Linda Kastleman) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:46:27 PST

Members of the Academic Programs Committee at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have announced that the School will celebrate its inaugural Celebrate Teaching! Month in February.

The decision to hold the series of events, which celebrate innovative teaching and offer faculty members development opportunities, grew out of SPH2020, a planning process that began in fall 2010. SPH2020 aims to

New directory helps connect low-income women to cervical cancer services in North Carolina

kastlema@email.unc.edu (Linda Kastleman) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:02:57 PST

A new online resource is available to help connect women and adolescents to life-saving cervical cancer-related services.

The N.C. Cervical Cancer Resource Directory includes county-specific information on where uninsured or underinsured women can go to find screening (Pap test) services. The site also has information on human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination, answers to frequently asked questions and additional resources.

The directory � available in both English and Spanish � was developed by Cervical Cancer-Free NC, an initiative based at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel

Callahan and Harris co-author Institute of Medicine report on chronic illness

kastlema@email.unc.edu (Linda Kastleman) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:05:39 PST

Two members of the UNC public health faculty are co-authors of an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report released this week that calls for immediate action to reduce the nation�s burden from all forms of chronic illness.

Leigh Callahan, PhD, adjunct associate professor of epidemiology in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, and Russell Harris, MD, MPH, director of the health care and prevention concentration in the School�s Public Health

Four master�s students selected for Presidential Management Fellowship

kastlema@email.unc.edu (Linda Kastleman) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:49:25 PST

Four Master of Public Health students at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have been selected as 2012 Presidential Management Fellows by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. They are Sara Crocoll and Laura Tison, in the Public Health Leadership Program; Paul Ebohon, in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering; and Kea Turner, in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education.

The fellowship application process is long and competitive, beginning with a September application, followed by an online assessment of situational judgment, leadership and writing skills

BIOS article wins 'Best Paper in Biometrics' award

kastlema@email.unc.edu (Linda Kastleman) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:35:53 PST

An article by lead author and biostatistics doctoral student Yingqi Zhao has won the �Best Paper in Biometrics� award, presented by the International Biometric Society (IBS), which publishes the journal Biometrics.

A committee of current and former co-editors of the journal selected Zhao�s �Detecting Disease Outbreaks Using Local Spatiotemporal Methods,� which was published in Biometrics in December 2011, as the best paper of 2011.

IBS bestows the award biennially to research from the previous two years that journal co-editors gauge to be of the