CPC Fellow Peggy Bentley named associate director of new Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases
Oct 11, 2007
The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill has launched an Institute for Global Health and Infectious
Diseases to extend and enhance ongoing research efforts to improve the
lives of people around the world.
The institute, based in the
School of Medicine, will build on the University's current global
health presence in about 50 countries.
Myron S. Cohen, M.D., associate
vice chancellor for global health in the medical school, has been named
institute director. Cohen, the J. Herbert Bate Distinguished Professor
of Medicine, Microbiology and Public Health, is a leading expert on the
spread and prevention of AIDS. A UNC faculty member for 27 years, he
has served as director of the medical school's Division of Infectious
Diseases since 1989.
Dr. Peggy Bentley, associate dean for global
health in the School of Public Health, will be associate director of
the institutes. A professor of nutrition, she joined the UNC faculty in
1998, is an expert on maternal and child health and nutrition and has
worked in several countries around the world.
