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Elizabeth Frankenberg in The Conversation
July 6, 2021Elizabeth Frankenberg co-wrote a piece in The Conversation looking at what has been learned about recovering from the Boxing Day tsunami.
Fruehwirth featured in Carolina Alumni Review
June 21, 2021Faculty Fellow Jane Fruehwirth was featured in the Carolina Alumni Review for the research she conducted with Fellow Krista Perriera on depression and anxiety among first-year college students.
Luca Flabbi interviewed for WRAL Tech Wire
June 1, 2021Faculty Fellow Luca Flabbi was interviewed for WRAL Tech Wire about a possible labor shortage.
Yong Cai appears on NPR
May 3, 2021Faculty Fellow Yong Cai appeared on Morning Edition to discuss China’s 2020 Census.
Whitney Robinson quoted in The Atlantic
April 28, 2021Faculty Fellow Whitney Robinson was interviewed in The Atlantic for Sarah Zhang’s piece on COVID-19 and children.
Fellow Handa interviewed in CQ Researcher
April 26, 2021CQ Researcher freelance correspondent Zarrín Caldwell interviewed Faculty Fellow Sudhanshu Handa about direct-payment aid programs.
Fellows Yang and Mullan Harris featured in Nature
April 26, 2021A research highlights piece in Nature featured Yang Claire Yang and Kathleen Mullan Harris’ recent study examining obesity’s racially skewed rise.
Paul Delamater featured on CBS17 about vaccine plateaus
April 26, 2021Faculty Fellow Paul Delamater was recently featured on CBS17 discussing vaccination rates in NC. Both Delamater and Faculty Fellow Whitney Robinson were also interviewed for a piece in NC Health News about vaccine slow-downs.
Whitney Robinson featured in The New York Times
April 22, 2021Faculty Fellow Whitney Robinson was featured in a New York Times piece on how epidemiologists are planning to vacation with their unvaccinated kids.
Fellow Avery wins Teaching Innovation Award
April 11, 2021Christy Avery, MPH, PhD, won this years’ Gillings School of Global Public Health Teaching Innovation Award. One nominator wrote “Dr. Avery has led a sustained effort to revamp Epidemiologic training to more accurately define and measure race and racism. Although … Read more