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The UNC Charlotte Department of Public Health Sciences this April hosted a series of interactive events in celebration of National Public Health Week. Aligning with national activities led by the American Public Health Association, faculty, students, public health leaders and the greater Charlotte community came together for discussions on the health of the region and […]

In celebration of Public Health Week, UNC Charlotte and Tresata today announced a far reaching new partnership designed to make Charlotte, NC one of the healthiest cities in the world by 2025. This goal will be met using advanced data analytics, empowering the local community with actionable knowledge, and advancing health entrepreneurship in Charlotte. Through […]

Danielle Gilliard is a Health Policy Coordinator in the Office of Policy & Prevention at the Mecklenburg County Health Department (MCHD) and an Adjunct Professor at Queens University. She studied Global Health and Environment, Medical Anthropology, and Chinese at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill before earning her MPH from Emory University. Danielle […]

Dr. Yhenneko Taylor, an alumna from the Health Services Research PhD program from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, has agreed to join the Public Health Programs Advisory Board for a three year term. Dr. Taylor also has a Master’s in Statistics from North Carolina State University. She spent her early career as a […]

The MPH program has been approved to add a concentration in Population Health Analytics in Fall 2018. The new concentration will consist of 5 courses related to data analytic methods, health care systems and health informatics. The concentration experience culminates in a capstone course where students work in consulting teams with health care clients. The […]

Elizabeth Radcliff, RN, MSPH, PhD currently works in the Department of Health Services Policy and Management in the Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina. A former pediatric nurse, she oversees the Maternal and Child Health division of research at the South Carolina Rural Health Research Center and coordinates the evaluation of several […]

The MPH program has been approved to add a concentration in Epidemiology in Fall 2018. The new concentration will consist of 5 courses related to epidemiological methods and health-specific content culminating in an epidemiology capstone course focusing on outbreak investigations. The Epidemiology concentration will be offered in addition to concentrations in Community Health Practice and […]

In the following op-ed published by the Charlotte Observer, CHHS Dean Nancy Fey-Yensan and Liz Winer of the Winer Family Foundation reflect on the need for Charlotte to come together to address early childhood trauma. “We’ve done enough planning, it’s time to act.” It was a simple enough message from Vi Lyles, speaking less than […]

Fred Brown has enjoyed a long and varied career in healthcare in large and small markets across North Carolina. He started his work in healthcare as a high school student, when he worked as an orderly at Iredell Memorial Hospital in his home town of Statesville. After college, Mr. Brown served as an Army officer […]

Deborah Dirkse graduated from the UNC Charlotte MHA program in 2004, the first graduating MHA class. She currently works for Wake Forest Baptist Health as a Quality Improvement Consultant for a 17 county area. In addition to her position with Wake Forest, she recently joined UNC Charlotte as an adjunct faculty teaching the quality and […]