Monday Morning

Follow-up to my 6/13 post on E coli

See Dean Antoine Flahault’s blog for an incisive, witty assessment of the outbreak of E coli in Germany. It is particularly interesting to get a European epidemiologic perspective on the outbreak. Read More...

Published Mon, Jun 20 2011 4:04 PM by Monday Morning

Filed under: Students

Students are the only antidote for bad news

The news has been as enervating as day after day of 95+ degree weather. It saps and erodes energy. Finally, last week, there was just-in-time resolution of the deficit brinksmanship game being played in Washington. But there was no celebration. The price...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2011 6:43 AM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health, North Carolina, budget

Disaster of epic proportions

Earthquake and tsunami in Japan Aren’t the disasters that have occurred in Japan horrifying and overwhelming? I hadn’t really understood why a tsunami is so dangerous and powerful until reading some of the explanations in the press. I’ve lived through...

Published Mon, Mar 14 2011 4:41 PM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health, Global

What a week!

President’s Cancer Panel I am so grateful to all the people who responded to the White House announcement about their intent to appoint me and Owen Witte, MD to the President’s Cancer Panel. We cannot discuss the PCP until appointments are finalized...

Published Wed, Dec 07 2011 2:54 PM by Anonymous

Filed under: Uncategorized

Holiday present for diversity

President Obama’s new guidelines As I have said before in this blog and through numerous other venues, I am committed to help our School become a more diverse and inclusive organization. In public health, we aim to solve some of the biggest problems facing...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2011 2:21 PM by Anonymous

Filed under: public health, diversity, North Carolina

An important week for diversity and health disparities

I’ll be writing more about diversity Over the next few months, I’ll be writing more about diversity as we develop new approaches to increase our School’s diversity. Diversity and excellence are interwoven. Someone said to me a few weeks ago, “Aren’t you...

Published Wed, Jun 09 2010 3:52 PM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health

Doing good, better—including diversity

Doing good, better We are proud that our School alumna, Heather Munroe-Blum, PhD, was selected to be the 32nd University Day lecturer. Munroe-Blum spoke about the development of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an innovation in public education;...

Published Thu, Oct 21 2010 2:08 PM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health, diversity

Zen of Technology

Faster, better, smarter I’m not a geek, but I married a geek. So, I may be more open to new technologies than a lot of former English majors. Still, for me, technology has to have a purpose. It can’t just be cool, though I like cool. I was...

Published Tue, Sep 21 2010 10:52 AM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health

Gratitude

It’s almost a cliché to talk about Thanksgiving and gratitude. Gratitude platitudes surround the holiday, just like the newspaper inserts for Black Friday specials. We eat too much, often remarking about it while continuing to eat (which is ironic for...

Published Mon, Nov 29 2010 10:54 AM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health

Commencement: the journey continues

SPH Commencement Saturday at 1pm, those of us on the stage (including our fabulous faculty, student leaders, commencement speaker and others) looked out upon hundreds of beaming faces as family and friends watched expectantly for their very special graduate...

Published Tue, May 11 2010 11:29 AM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health

Postcard to President Obama

Monday, January 21st, NPR’s website offered an easy way to send postcards to President Obama with one the issue one wanted him to address in his second term. This was mine. Barbara Check out Hill Harper’s Twitter feed and Manifest Your Destiny...

Published Mon, Jan 28 2013 12:05 PM by Anonymous

Filed under: Uncategorized

Public health flashmob

Share Last week, the tables were turned on teachers and learners. Health Policy and Management BSPH student Savan Kothadia (who just made Phi Beta Kappa, by the way) and Vivek Mahajan, from the School of Pharmacy, taught a group of exuberant faculty and...

Published Mon, Apr 08 2013 9:56 AM by Anonymous

Filed under: public health

Why I’ve come to love commencement

It’s fun, joyful and focuses on our amazing people As dean, I wouldn’t miss a School commencement or the University ceremony. Commencement means beginning, but it is so much more. It’s a time out to celebrate who our students are and what they have accomplished...

Published Mon, May 20 2013 3:49 PM by Anonymous

Filed under: Students

No guns here please

Do we really want guns in public colleges? From today’s News and Observer: A major gun-rights bill took an unexpected turn Tuesday with a proposal to eliminate the law that requires people receive a permit from their county sheriff before they can buy...

Published Thu, Jun 13 2013 5:11 AM by Anonymous

Filed under: North Carolina, Government, gun control

Something is happening here

What it is ain’t entirely clear (said Buffalo Springfield of a different time and place) There’s been a lot of activity in the Division of Natural Resources and the Division of Water Quality. Several highly respected individuals have left their positions...

Published Tue, Sep 10 2013 11:19 AM by Anonymous

Filed under: public health, North Carolina, Government

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Follow-up to my 6/13 post on E coli

Students are the only antidote for bad news

Disaster of epic proportions

What a week!

Holiday present for diversity

An important week for diversity and health disparities

Doing good, better—including diversity

Zen of Technology

Gratitude

Commencement: the journey continues

Postcard to President Obama

Public health flashmob

Why I’ve come to love commencement

No guns here please

Something is happening here