The mission of GWH is to advance the health of women and their families in resource-limited settings through research, service delivery, and training. A major focus is to raise the profile of global health within the OB-GYN specialty and to train the next generation of OB-GYN leaders in global health.

GSDI’s mission is to create innovative interventions, build knowledge, produce evidence, and, in collaboration with local stakeholders, shape policy towards the well-being of marginalized populations globally.

The Global Research Institute focuses on research areas in which UNC-Chapel Hill already has significant strengths as a way both to advance knowledge in these areas and to help attract world-renowned scholars to Chapel Hill.

The UNC-CH Genome Analysis Facility (formerly the UNC-CH Automated DNA Sequencing Facility) is a Core Facility, established in 1992 by the Program in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (PMBB), to provide researchers at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with access to state-of-the-art resources for DNA sequencing and genotyping.

The University of North Carolina School of Medicine created the Gene Therapy Center in 1996 with the goal of merging molecular genetics research with healthcare delivery. The Gene Therapy Center provides important resources to academic investigators through two core facilities created to support preclinical and clinical gene therapy studies.