UNC Epidemiology Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

September 10, 2024 The Gillings School of Global Public Health is proud to recognize over 50 students from the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering (ESE) who have been recognized with prestigious awards over the past academic year. Clara Eichler received the ASTM International Scholarship for graduate students.

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Environmental Health News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast is a biweekly podcast featuring the stories and big ideas from past and present fellows, as well as others in the field. It was a pretty, actually confusing and challenging time to be a young immigrant woman navigating the US academic system and just in general, day to day life.

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Environmental Health News

JANUARY 21, 2025

She was part of a group of undergraduate researchers at Sonoma State University that Dr. Daniel Soto and I had taken under our wing. Wed trained them to collect data and facilitate workshops in which they worked with community members from nearby environmental justice communities.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Laura Diaz joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss the intersection of social and environmental stressors on children’s health. And you went to so you mentioned Sonoma State University, which is now recognized as a Hispanic serving institution, and you went there for your undergraduate degree.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 4, 2021

Frontiers announces its first open-access agreement with Asian institution. One of Taiwan’s leading medical research institutions, the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), and the open-access publisher Frontiers have today announced a publishing deal effective as of August 2021.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The area has stark health care provider shortages and high rates of chronic disease, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease. And that’s not an accident, according to academic researchers, doctors, politicians, community leaders, and dozens of other people KFF Health News interviewed.

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BU School of Public Health Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

COVID-19 How Federal Funding Propels the SPH Research Making a Difference in People’s Lives With federal research funding cuts looming for academia and medical centers across the US, we take at look at how federally funded research at SPH has produced tangible results that benefit real lives in real communities.

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