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Fall 2025

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Mobile health smart messaging could lead to safer drinking choices

Researchers are developing a mobile app that uses location and social cues to send real-time messages helping young adults reduce high-risk drinking behaviors.

From Matthew Chamberlin
Associate Dean for Communications and Marketing

This year’s impact report highlights how Gillings advances health across North Carolina and around the world through research, education, practice and strong community partnerships. It shows how our faculty, students, staff and alumni turn ideas into real solutions that strengthen public health every day.

Public Health Foundation | Advisory Council | Alumni Association

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Fall 2025

Gillings School elevates practice at annual NCPHA Educational Conference

Gillings faculty, staff and students led sessions and shared research at the NCPHA conference, strengthening partnerships and advancing public health practice.

Where do I do public health?

A look inside Dr. Patsy Polston’s office reveals the inspirations, student work and personal reminders that shape her leadership and teaching in public health.

Building trust, one data point at a time

Dr. Bethany Hedt-Gauthier shares her path into public health, her advocacy-driven research in maternal health and the values guiding her work and mentorship.

Partnership Hubs bring students from classroom to community across NC

Partnership Hubs connect students with N.C. communities, offering hands-on practicum experiences that strengthen local health systems and address county needs.

Rotimi Kukoyi wants to be a bridge builder in public health

Rotimi Kukoyi shares how lived experience, equity-focused thinking, and a passion for bridging medicine, policy and community shape his path in public health.

Elevating Practice, engaging communities and advancing health

Gillings advances public health practice through preparedness work, community hubs, student engagement and partnerships that strengthen equity across N.C.

Messaging that informs with impact

Gillings strengthens public health communication with clear, accurate information that counters misinformation and helps communities make informed decisions.

A legacy of service by the Lee family

Mark Lee honors his mother’s legacy of pediatric service by creating a maternal and child health scholarship that supports rural communities and future leaders.

A legacy rooted in community health

Dr. Robert Goodman’s estate gift funds doctoral students committed to community health, continuing his legacy of advancing social and behavioral change.