By UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Expanding Medicaid coverage could lead to fewer deaths among those who were formerly incarcerated, but new findings from a JAMA Network Open study show significant racialized inequities in this reduction. The study, … Read more

By UNC School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine The research shows firearm injuries in N.C. are pervasive and increasing, but preventable. The findings were released earlier this year and demonstrate that firearm violence occurs in rural, suburban and urban … Read more

By Vibhav Nandagiri, NC Health News North Carolina saw a significant rise in pedestrian and bicyclist deaths in 2022, marking it as the deadliest year for non-motorist fatalities in over three decades. The alarming statistics have prompted public health advocates and … Read more

By UNC School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine The research findings were published in PLOS ONE. The paper was authored by applied public health researchers in the Carolina Center for Health Informatics (CCHI) in the UNC Department of Emergency … Read more