Jill Fisher, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Social Medicine and Center for Bioethics, was elected to a 3-year term as Chair of the Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association. https://www.asanet.org/about/governance-and-leadership/election

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Call for Papers The Political Economy of Vaccines During the COVID-19 Pandemic After the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and the heavy losses suffered across the globe, the availability of multiple effective vaccines seemed like a miracle—a way to prevent wide-scale suffering by reducing the spread of … Read more

Health Care Reform under the Biden Administration — Broad Ambitions, Narrow Majorities – Dr. Jonathan Oberlander (The New England Journal of Medicine)

Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Ethics and the ELSI of Precision Medicine Call for Applications: The University of North Carolina (UNC) Center for Genomics and Society (CGS) and the Center for Bioethics (C:B), together with the Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH), announce a joint postdoctoral position in clinical ethics and the ethical, … Read more

Research led by Donald Pathman, MD, MPH, and Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH, published in Public Health Reports shows the trauma to healthcare clinicians in low-income communities. Continue reading

Co-edited by Claudia S.P. Fernandez, DrPH, and Giselle Corbie, MD, healthcare experts from nurses to social workers present a way forward which shifts away from our fragmented and often judgmental approach to health in the new book Leading Community Based Changes in the Culture of Health in the US – Experiences in Developing the Team … Read more

Rebecca L. Walker, PhD and Jill A. Fisher, PhD from the Department of Social Medicine have published a new survey that identifies how researchers using vertebrate animals viewed issues of significance for translational science. https://news.unchealthcare.org/2021/12/walker-fisher-publish-survey-of-u-s-biomedical-researchers/

Jill A. Fisher, PhD and Rebecca L. Walker, PhD in the UNC Department of Social Medicine are among 24 newly elected Hastings Center fellows, a group of more than 200 individuals of outstanding accomplishment. https://news.unchealthcare.org/2021/12/fisher-walker-elected-as-hastings-center-fellows/

Giselle Corbie, CHER Director, has co-authored an opinion piece for STAT with Warren Kibbe of the Duke Cancer Institute, calling for engaging communities “around how and why data affect them.” https://news.unchealthcare.org/2021/11/corbie-smith-co-authors-opinion-on-data-inclusivity/

Krista Perreira, Professor of Social Medicine, and Jonathan Oberlander, Professor and Chair of Social Medicine, co-authored an article on Hispanic children’s health insurance coverage and use of health services.  The article, which analyzes changes in coverage and barriers to health care access for Hispanic children, appears in a new volume of The Annals of the … Read more