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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]