Left to right: First-year communications fellows Khalanie Taylor and Alana Austin, Associate Dean for Communications and Marketing Matthew Chamberlin, and second-year communications fellows Ethan Chupp and Shriti Pant.
The School enhances public health communication, bridging global information gaps and expanding media presence to address health misinformation effectively.
At the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, we recognize the vital role of effective public health communication in saving lives. Strong support from our leadership, faculty and staff ensures our communications and marketing unit can adapt to the evolving media landscape.
To that end, we are wrapping up a strategic communications and marketing review that will help our unit strengthen its processes and bring dynamic communication to the broad audiences we serve.
We have grown our team to include a role that is focused on admissions communications, enabling us to stay in closer touch with prospective students as they navigate the admissions process.
News travels fast, and mis- and disinformation travel even faster. We continue to resist the urge to throw up our hands in response to what can seem like an insurmountable wave of bad information and, instead, continue to connect the dots that lead to beneficial public health impact and outcomes.
Our faculty’s expanding presence in mainstream media outlets, in addition to scientific journals, increases the reach of public health messaging to broader audiences who benefit from reliable information.
Finally, thanks to the generous support of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, our Public Health Communications Fellowship continues to instill talented Master of Public Health students with the communications skills necessary to address ongoing public health challenges.
Top articles
- The artificial sweetener aspartame now considered a ‘possible carcinogen’ (NBC News, July 13, 2023)
- Tracking a mom’s first year after birth revealed shocking insights (HuffPost, August 8, 2023)
- Amid signs of a Covid uptick, researchers brace for the ‘new normal’ (The New York Times, August 2, 2023)
- The US food industry has long buried the truth about their products (The Guardian, May 20, 2024)
Top Gillings news
- UNC Gillings School to host new CDC center for outbreak forecasting, response (September 19, 2023)
- Paxlovid, molnupiravir substantially reduced Omicron hospitalization, death (September 21, 2023)
- Menthol cigarette bans could lead nearly a quarter of smokers to quit (February 21, 2024)
- UNC Gillings ranked No. 1 public school of public health in US (April 9, 2024)
