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Our Work

Institute of Public Health

Our Work admin Tue, 02/05/2023 - 17:38 Our Work We focus on promoting health and wellbeing, improving health equity, and reducing health inequalities throughout the life course. This covers a wide range of topics within the broad theme of public health which can be seen below.

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Unraveling an oral health mystery leads to rare autoimmune diagnosis

NC Health News

The fellowship is a yearlong service-based program that empowers graduate students to do a community health service project that helps address systemic health inequities. Not only are the students paired with a faculty member to try to identify barriers to care, the overall goal is to improve health equity.

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What Is a Global Health Professional?

Tulane Public Health Blog

While healthcare organizations around the globe work to improve access to quality care, global health professionals work to bring together national and international efforts to address health inequity. Global Health vs. Public Health There are many overlapping approaches and goals between global health and public health.

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The Network in 2025: Connecting Public Health, Community Needs, and Law and Policy Solutions

The Network for Public Health Law

A Message from Interim Co-Executive Directors Quang (“Q”) Dang and Ann Phi-Wendt “ While laws and policies can serve as barriers to health equity, they can also be used to promote health and advance equity and this is, has been, and will continue to be the focus of our work, whatever the political climate might bring.

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Honoring the 2025 AMCHP Annual Award Recipients

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

After earning her Master of Public Health from Emory University, Haita began working for the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) in 2022. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Public Health and a Master of Public Health in Population Health Management and Leadership from Ohio State University.

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October Policy Updates: Budget Consultations, Historic Apology, Traditional Healing Coverage, and More

National Council on Urban Indian Health

Federal Comment Deadlines : Key upcoming federal deadlines for public comment on health policies affecting Native communities. NCUIH in Action & Recent Events : NCUIH leadership has been active at recent events, advocating for health equity and policy support for urban Native communities.

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NC’s public health community prepares for Trump administration chaos

NC Health News

Cilenti said she understood that Trump wanted to put his philosophical stamp on the government, but she wondered how the drive to remove language about diversity, equity and inclusion from federal documents would affect research on the differences in health that exist among different racial and ethnic groups.