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UNC wins grant to train HIV doctors in Africa


Carolina has been awarded a training fellowship from the Gilead Foundation to provide doctors from the African nation of Malawi with postdoctoral training in internal medicine. Among the poorest nations in the world, Malawi is the site of the UNC Project, a research, care and training facility in the country’s capital, Lilongwe. The facility is a collaborative venture between UNC and Kamuzu Central Hospital. read more

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Jonathan Oberlander, Ph.D., a specialist in health care politics and policy and in issues in American health care reform, can discuss the health care proposals of the three presidential candidates.
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Jonathan Oberlander on health care and the economy Print E-mail
Friday, May 02, 2008


As the presidential election nears, and the democratic primary hits full speed, health care – it’s growing costs and looming problems – weighs on the minds of voters. Jonathan Oberlander, Ph.D., associate professor of Social Medicine in UNC’s School of Medicine and associate professor of health policy and administration in the School of Public Health, breaks down the candidates’ health care plans and explains how health care effects our economy.