Gillings Students— Public Health Champions in North Carolina and the World! Your experiences here prepare you to solve the world’s greatest public health problems. You will be the leaders who must get water to billions, turn the tide on the obesity epidemic, figure out how to get quality health care to all people, reduce the incidence of cancer and infectious diseases and so much more. You’re amazing! I’m impressed by what you accomplish while you’re here and by your dreams for the future. — Barbara K . Rimer , D rP H
(Left) Lacey English, health behavior master’s student, received a Fulbright fellowship to address children’s malnutrition in Sierra Leone next year. (Above) Environmental sciences and engineering doctoral candidate Anne Galyean not only is forging new paths in nanochemistry—she’s also a world-class downhill mountain biker.
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