Building on their recent research, Mara Buchbinder, PhD, professor and vice chair of Social Medicine, and Kavita Arora, MD, director of the UNC Division of General Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Midwifery, published a viewpoint article in JAMA about how institutions can support OBGYNs in states with the most restrictive abortion laws.   Supporting OB-GYNs in Abortion-Restrictive … Read more

Jill Fisher,  Professor of Social Medicine and Core Faculty in the Center for Bioethics, has co-authored a new study ranking research universities’ support for academic couples, including for partner hires.  Fisher’s work with Torin Monahan on dual-career academic couples was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed.   Do Institutions Support … Read more

Jonathan Oberlander, Chair and Professor of Social Medicine and Professor of Health Policy & Management, is editor of a new special issue in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law on Polarization, Partisanship, and Health in the United States. In the lead essay, Oberlander argues that partisan divisions between Democrats and Republicans are reshaping U.S. health … Read more

Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD, professor of Social Medicine, core faculty in the Center of Bioethics, and research professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the UNC School of Medicine, is lead author of “Beneath the Sword of Damocles: Moral Obligations of Physicians in a Post-Dobbs Landscape.” Lyerly is Lead Author of Article In The Hastings Center … Read more

Dr. Mara Buchbinder has been named as 1 of 13 new fellows elected by The Hastings Center for 2023. Hastings Center Welcomes 13 New Fellows  

Dr. Mara Buchbinder, and colleagues at the UNC School of Medicine and Harvard University, has a new piece out in JAMA Network Open on how OB-GYNs perceive the impacts of state abortion bans post-Dobbs, as well as an accompanying editorial in The News & Observer.