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07/11/2022

The latest issue is live! Read about how North Carolina clinicians and communities are shifting loci of responsibility when it comes to health behavior and paving the way for better health equity. Many thanks to Dr. Carrie Rosario for guest editing. https://lnkd.in/gNGnkiGy

08/11/2021

“Linking crash data with health data can provide a more complete picture of crash circumstances and health outcomes. Efforts are now underway to create the North Carolina Crash Injury Surveillance System to function as a sustainable repository of linked data to further research and evaluation.” Read more in this new paper from UNC School of Medicine, UNC Highway Safety Research Center, and the NC Department of Health and Human Services

BACKGROUND Over the last several years, pedestrian fatalities have increased in North Carolina; however, fatalities represent a small proportion of the total number of nonfatally injured pedestrians. Therefore, we linked statewide motor vehicle crash (MVC) and emergency department (ED) visit data to...

07/08/2021

Countless individuals and institutions in NC approached COVID-19’s challenges with a combination of innovative thinking and norm-breaking collaborations. Susan Mims of Dogwood Health Trust writes that these were born of necessity but hold great promise for continued applications.

Certainly the COVID-19 pandemic will go down in history as one of the most significant public health challenges of our time. Responding to the uncertainty of the pandemic put public health officials, health care and human services providers, and people working in all service industries front and

07/07/2021

“The stories told in this issue of the journal are happening in real time and evolving. Our editorial staff had to change dates, add events, and keep data up to date as we approached publication, so fast has the pandemic continued to surge and fall…” But the good news is that the pages are filled with “a chorus of hope,” depicting the collaboration and innovation born of this crisis.

06/14/2021

“Philanthropy can play an important role by acting as a venture capitalist, supporting efforts to innovate and test alternative care models.” Chris Collins of The Duke Endowment discusses how philanthropy can play a role in advancing the public’s health as NC transitions to a value-based health care system. https://www.ncmedicaljournal.com/content/82/3/221

06/01/2021

UofS Interim President Dr. Harris Pastides and Secretary of Commerce Machelle Baker Sanders will Co-Chair

05/27/2021

“As COVID-19 continues to overwhelm public health and medical systems across the US, North Carolina must allocate necessary resources to support families and ensure that preventive public health approaches are sufficiently funded to address current and long-lasting consequences of the pandemic on the state’s youngest residents.” UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health authors Lucas Griffin and Dr. Dorothy Cilenti discuss challenges and strategy recommendation for policy and programmatic improvements to support NC’s youngest children. https://www.ncmedicaljournal.com/content/82/3/208

05/27/2021

“By developing informed programs and processes to facilitate integration and promote wellness...refugee children in Durham County and similar resettlement areas could receive the quality health care that is well deserved and long awaited.” Dr. Emily Esmali of the Duke Global Health Institute - DGHI and her research team worked with a diverse group of pediatric refugee patients in Durham to better understand the health needs, trends of health care utilization, and barriers to care for resettled pediatric refugee populations. Learn more here: https://www.ncmedicaljournal.com/content/82/3/157

05/13/2021

The latest issue of the journal is live! Take a look at how far we've come in public health in North Carolina over the past 50 years, and efforts to address the challenges ahead.

02/25/2021

“[O]nce organizations like AMEXCAN were selected to assist in addressing in the communities at hand, the resulting value was hard to dismiss. With the state’s support, AMEXCAN has hosted over a dozen resource fairs across Eastern NC wherein hundreds of Hispanics and Latinos at each have received free PPE and COVID-19 testing . . . Looking forward, AMEXCAN hopes this experience might lay a framework for future disaster responses.”

While the COVID-19 pandemic has been an immense burden across the state, both in terms of public health and economic security, one demographic has been hit particularly hard: North Carolina’s Hispanic and Latino communities, more than half of whom are North Carolina-born [[1][1], [2][2]]. Due to a