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Developing diversity

Developing diversity Our School must become more diverse in our faculty, staff and students. (We follow UNC-Chapel Hill definition of diversity outlined in the Diversity Plan. This includes the many kinds of structural and contextual ways in which people...

Published Wed, Dec 16 2009 4:35 PM by Monday Morning

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Holiday blog—wishing you all great holidays

Saturday was a beautiful, crisp winter day in Chapel Hill, with just a hint of the light snow from the day before. Sunday was winter commencement – always fun to see the joy the event brings students and their family and friends. It was great to see public...

Published Wed, Dec 30 2009 12:22 PM by Monday Morning

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New Year’s blog

It’s been a very good year; it’s been an awful year. Next year has to be better. It’s been a year of many contradictions; researchers, in general, have benefited from stimulus dollars. But declines in state funds have left many universities and the people...

Published Wed, Dec 30 2009 1:05 PM by Monday Morning

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You can work and go to school — here!

Celebrating our Executive DrPH students Last week, one of the School’s great friends held a celebration for our Executive DrPH students at his house. It had been a long day, it was a cold night, and I was dragging. Bernard and I drove out to the...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2010 4:50 PM by Monday Morning

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Haiti, health reform and diversity

Haiti - a public health nightmare In the devastation of Haiti, what appears from the pictures and first person accounts, is hell on earth, a public health nightmare, a human tragedy. Yet, public health forces on the ground, along with our medical colleagues...

Published Tue, Jan 19 2010 3:48 PM by Monday Morning

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Requiem for health care reform?

Shock and dismay reverberated around the country last week as people took in the enormity of the impact of Martha Coakley’s Massachusetts loss. I remember sitting in my driveway very early Wednesday morning and thinking, “No way, Ted Kennedy’s...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2010 5:30 PM by Monday Morning

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We confront diversity

While we look a lot like our peer schools of public health, none of us are sufficiently diverse, particularly, in terms of minority staff, students and faculty. Most of us are in the 18-22% minority range although a few urban universities are higher....

Published Wed, Jan 27 2010 2:27 PM by Monday Morning

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A whirlwind week and then it snowed

State Health Directors’ meeting, etc A whirlwind week: chairs’ meeting, a fascinating ASPH conference call with Linda Birnbaum, PhD, director NIEHS, School of Dentistry dean search committee, meeting with one of three candidates for Provost...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2010 4:04 PM by Monday Morning

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A sad day for UNC; Minority health conference especially important

Dr. Jessie Satia dead at 39 We are so disheartened by the passing of Jessie Satia, PhD, Associate Professor in the departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology and Special Assistant to the Dean for Diversity. Jessie had built a national reputation for her...

Published Mon, Feb 08 2010 9:40 AM by Monday Morning

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We say good-bye to Jessie Satia

Saturday, February 13th, family, friends, colleagues and students of Jessie Asong Satia, PhD, Associate Professor Nutrition and Epidemiology, daughter, sister, aunt, niece, cousin, teacher, mentor and colleague came together to celebrate her life’s...

Published Tue, Feb 16 2010 11:13 AM by Monday Morning

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CDC Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, Talks with Guide team

Director Frieden talks about prevention Dr. Frieden met with members of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services during our February meeting in Atlanta last week. It’s been great to see the increased appreciation of evidence under Dr. Frieden’s...

Published Mon, Feb 22 2010 3:53 PM by Monday Morning

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31 Years and Counting—Minoritstudent-copy.jpgy Health Conference hits a home run!

Building Community in the Age of Information: fighting health disparities in the modern world That was the title and theme of the 2010 student-run minority health conference, held February 26 at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill. The Minority Health Conference...

Published Mon, Mar 01 2010 11:00 AM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health, minority health

Spring beckons; loss calls

Spring comes to Chapel Hill…almost, at least for several days It feels like spring is arriving, as Carl Sandburg wrote in one of his poems, on little cat feet. I was so torn this morning—to review a School report or start cleaning out the plants on our...

Published Tue, Mar 09 2010 7:07 AM by Monday Morning

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Predictably Irrational I am reading the very interesting book, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely. For people who want to sample his work, he has an author in this month’s Harvard Business Review. He aims to explain human behavior by using theories...

Published Mon, Mar 22 2010 11:42 AM by Monday Morning

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Health Reform…to be or not to be….Yes!

I’d nearly given up. Maybe, health reform just wasn’t going to happen in my lifetime. Then, the reform train started moving again, with a lurch and then with a frontal assault from President Obama and his team. Over the weekend, the outcome...

Published Mon, Mar 22 2010 12:08 PM by Monday Morning

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Developing diversity

Holiday blog—wishing you all great holidays

New Year’s blog

You can work and go to school — here!

Haiti, health reform and diversity

Requiem for health care reform?

We confront diversity

A whirlwind week and then it snowed

A sad day for UNC; Minority health conference especially important

We say good-bye to Jessie Satia

CDC Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, Talks with Guide team

31 Years and Counting—Minoritstudent-copy.jpgy Health Conference hits a home run!

Spring beckons; loss calls

Health Reform…to be or not to be….Yes!