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Diverse teams perform better and are more innovative. That’s why with a new grant from the Emerson Collective, Drs. Tomi Akinyemiju, Meira Epplein, and Jason Somarelli will lead a minority training program for recent grads interested in entering graduate school to become cancer researchers.

Drs. Muiruri and Fuller will lead a center that provides streamlined, intentional, and long-term access to quality educational and career development opportunities for NC underrepresented minority students and trainees.

Dr. Lesley Curtis tells Raleigh's CBS17 that, unlike most states, North Carolina's COVID-19 vaccine distribution has been more equitable across urban and rural areas.

Is telemedicine less equitable? A team including Drs. Connor Drake, Hayden Bosworth, and student Tyler Lian explain.

Dr. Tomi Akinyemiju is apointed the new Associate Director of Community Outreach and Engagement at the Duke Cancer Institute.

Dr. Valerie Smith and team provide the methodology for analyzing semicontinuous data from surveys in a new article in "Health Services Research."

Dr. Sherry Glied, Dean of New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, joined the Pop Health Sciences Department to discuss trends in US health policy. Watch her presentation.

Research from Dr. Brystana Kaufman and team say it’s not COVID-19 burden. It seems political preference and social factors were key,

The Population Health Opioid Collaboratory worked with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Injury and Violence Prevention Branch and interviewed 72 local health department representatives and stakeholders to identify features for effective planning and implementation of overdose prevention programs.

Dr. Muiruri will use his two-year, $150K award to study African Americans living with HIV, determining the most salient modifiable barriers they face in achieving blood pressure control by adapting and testing the feasibility of a clinic-based intervention.