Departmental News

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

Jill Davis has served on the UNC Charlotte MHA Advisory Board since 2014. She works as Senior Director, Enterprise Data, at Premier, Inc. In this role, Ms. Davis leads the teams responsible for enterprise-wide data acquisition and integration to support all informatics and data analytics tools offered by her company. Ms. Davis recently marked her […]

Nehemie Owen, MHA, FACHE, will assume the presidency of the Greater Charlotte Area Healthcare Executives Group (GCHEG) on January 1, 2018. She will succeed Jon Myers in the position. Ms. Owen currently serves as Assistant Vice President, Human Resources, Workforce Management Operations and Technology at Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS). She has worked with CHS since […]

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 […]

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 […]

Public health professor Jessamyn Bowling and a team of students are leading a new sexuality education initiative for UNC Charlotte, and in its first semester, the program is already making a difference. The Peer Leader-Educators Advocating for Sexuality Education (PLEASE) program is designed to encourage sexuality dialogues and safer sexual health practices. “Research shows that […]

Savannah Levins, WCNC UNC Charlotte researchers have just released the findings of a multi-year study into the health of all 17,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools elementary students. Each student was tracked for months, using pedometers and nutritional monitoring. The data shows that of all the students across 30 CMS elementary schools, the obesity rate was an incredible […]

While the obesity rate among Charlotte-Mecklenburg K-5 students hovers around the national average, it falls well short of the target numbers for a healthy population, according to a multi-year study led by UNC Charlotte researchers. Department of Public Health Sciences professor Beth Racine and a team of scholars evaluated the outcomes of Achieve 225, a […]

1) Although it is always with mixed emotions that I acknowledge the end of summer, I could not be more excited about another amazing beginning to what I know will be a memorable and productive academic year here in the College of Health and Human Services. I am so pleased to welcome the Class of […]

Engaging summer opportunities are an important part of the educational experience at the College of Health and Human Services, and help students prepare for successful careers in their respective fields. The Charlotte Research Scholars and Charlotte Community Scholars programs are two among many summer experiences available to UNC Charlotte students. Five public health undergraduate students […]

MPH student Alexandra (Alex) Alcorn has been awarded the Donna C. Arrington Scholarship for the coming academic year. Alex is a second year MPH student interested in environmental health. For summer 2017, she is completing an internship with Clean Air Carolina. In Fall 2016, Alex was the representative of El Salvador at the Regional Mock […]

Once in a while, you run across one of those people who, like a drop of water in a pool, creates ripples that affect everyone they touch. Keri Revens is one of those people. Keri is one of several Charlotte graduate students and faculty who, collectively, contribute more than 60 hours each week delivering counseling […]

A group of UNC Charlotte students took part in a spring break to write home about this year, but not for the reasons you might expect. The 30 students from degree programs across campus eschewed familiar vacation destinations to travel to Nicaragua on a volunteer medical mission trip. The group, hailing from pre-health, pre-business, international […]