UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing's Invest in Nursing Faculty Fellowship program is currently recruiting nursing faculty for their 2021-2022 fellowship year. This is an amazing opportunity for advancing leadership and curriculum development skills.
The application cycle for the 2021-2022 cohort will open February 15 and close April 16. The application is available for download on our website.
Please join the Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences department on Thursday, January 28, from 12 to 1 p.m., for the virtual James H. Carter, Sr. Memorial Lecture with Patrice Harris, the 174th president of the American Medical Association and the first African-American woman to hold this position.
Duke Health has produced an article about the COVID-19 vaccine, "Weigh the Benefits of COVID-19 Vaccine Against the Risk for Infection" by Debbe Geiger.
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Kudos to Hailey Miller, postdoctoral associate, and her sponsors for the submission of her Duke Clinical & Translational Science Institute, Post-Doctoral Training Program (TL1) application entitled: "Feasibility of delivering a digital health intervention to improve food access among adults with hypertension." This proposal requests funding with a start date of July 1, 2021.
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Joseph Kilasara, a nursing faculty member at Kilimanjaro Christian University Medical University-College (KCMUC0) in Moshi, Tanzania, has graduated from the University of Botswana with a masters degree in nursing as a family nurse practitioner. Kilisara spent two years in Botswana, including during COVID.
Donna Biederman, associate professor and D-CHIPP director, is now chair of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) Respite Care Providers Network (RCPN) Steering Committee and a council board member. Biederman was confirmed as a member of the RCPN Steering Committee in 2015 and has been vice chair since 2019.
Gina Wilson, DNP'16 and consulting associate, is an author of "Addressing Organizational Barriers to Adolescent Access to High-Quality, Low-Cost, Confidential Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in a Community Health Center" in Health Promotion Practice. Other authors include Meriel A.
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