At the recent American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Mara Buchbinder, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine was awarded the Polgar prize, which is awarded to a professional medical anthropologist for the best paper published in Medical Anthropology Quarterly during the last year’s volume. The paper is: Buchbinder, Mara. 2018. Choreographing Death: A … Read more

Voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention among adolescents in Kenya: Unintended consequences of pursuing service-delivery targets https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0224548

“Everyone deserves a chance to be healthy in this country and in this state. And that’s why I do the work that I do,” said Dr. Giselle Corbie-Smith, director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research. https://thewell.unc.edu/2019/11/05/health-equity-is-a-matter-of-health-quality-for-e-k-graham-award-winner/  

A new study, led by Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD, in the UNC department of social medicine, finds that people who were held in restrictive housing while serving time in prison face a substantial increased risk of death after their release. Association of Restrictive Housing During Incarceration With Mortality After Release  

The Edward Kidder Graham Faculty Service Award recognizes distinguished service to the state, the nation and the University by a faculty member. Giselle Corbie-Smith A nationally recognized expert on the inclusion of disparity populations in research, Giselle Corbie-Smith is the founder and director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research, which works to improve … Read more

Duke University Press: We sat down with Jonathan Oberlander, the new editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (JHPPL), to discuss his vision for the journal, what sets JHPPL apart, and what he’s looking for in submissions. Oberlander is Professor and Chair of Social Medicine, Professor of Health Policy and Management, and Adjunct Professor of … Read more

The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics is a prestigioius international reference collection that publishes of state-of-the-art reviews of ethical issues in public health solicited from leading scholars around the world. The recently published volume features work by five faculty and two mentees from the UNC Department of Social Medicine: Jean Cadigan, Gail Henderson, Elana … Read more

Tonia Poteat, PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Medicine has been appointed to the National Academies of Science Consensus Panel on the Well-Being of Sexual and Gender Minorities. An ad hoc committee will conduct a study to review data and research on the state of LGBTQ+ populations on dimensions such as family formation and parenting, social … Read more

Mara Buchbinder, PhD, associate professor of social medicine, appeared on WUNC’s State of Things as part of the May 23, 2019  show on the new wave of state abortion legislation.