D.C. police have hired a director for a new office to help officers and civilian staff members dealing with physical and emotional problems, in large part stemming from the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Given the powerful experiences of this past year, the Faculty and Staff of the Department of Public Health Education at UNCG offer this video as a graduation gift to you, our amazing students. We hope this time capsule of our moment in time honors you, your endurance, and your future success. Congratulations pandemic and social justice Graduates of the 2021!
Masters of Public Health in Community Health Education students, Caroline Wells and Aaron Sturdivant, spent their final semester at UNCG providing community support for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
Samuella Ware, Ph.D., M.P.H. is a postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University in the College of Nursing and Health Professions (CNHP). Her research focus is on race-based theories and social structural factors that impact sexual health ad HIV vulnerability among Black men and women.
Dr. Erica Payton Foh in Public Health Education is the Center for Housing and Community Studies’ inaugural Faculty Research Fellow.
UNC Greensboro and Cone Health have been selected for a three-year award as Interdisciplinary Research Leaders (IRL) under the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
For Crystal Dixon, diversity and inclusion cannot exist without equity. In 2019, she was appointed by the dean as chair of HHS’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee – her first task? Including the word “equity” in the title. She wanted to ensure the committee was embracing the concept of equity… Continue reading…
With the COVID-19 virus we as a nation were told to go home, to social distance, to stay away from each other…and yet…we frequently heard the phrase “We are all in this together”. A bonding of our human tribe during a profound moment in human history. A moment when we truly came face to face with the reality that, yes, we really ARE all in this together. Curious isn’t it?
Kelley Massengale was having a cup of coffee in downtown Durham when she noticed a donation box for the Diaper Bank of North Carolina. She had never heard of the organization. Nor had many others, judging by a handwritten sign on the wall. It urged people not to drop dirty diapers in the box.
