Approaching Epidemiology with Empathy
Marc Emerson’s experiences growing up in Navajo Nation guide his research on health equity in American Indian and Alaskan Native communities.
UNCRS Category: Health
The Children’s Advocate
Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens has spent her career researching hard-hitting issues in children’s health care and has changed the way doctors think about puberty.
Math-Age Daydream
The mathematical puzzles that arise when modeling neurodegenerative diseases fascinate Tanya Garcia, who hopes to solve them to speed treatment development.
The Optimistic Nutritionist
Saroja Voruganti uses genetics to improve people’s nutrition — and she’s helping the next generation of scientists do the same.
Burdens of Paradise
A broad study looking at food and water insecurity in the Galápagos brings together a team of researchers to focus on an often-overlooked population.
Championing Public Health
The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health has been addressing the world’s biggest challenges for more than 80 years.
Slowly, Then All at Once
Shekinah Elmore’s road to radiation oncology was long, exhausting, and unexpected.
Infusing Hope for Hemophilia
A gene therapy clinical trial for hemophilia shows promise and could be approved by the FDA later this year — a feat made possible, in part, by UNC-Chapel Hill’s 70-year-old research program