Led by Nabarun Dasgupta, researchers from across the University will work with seven community-based harm reduction programs from all regions of North Carolina to conduct the first-ever street drug assessment focused on public health, backed by sophisticated machine learning techniques.
With new grant funding, Nabarun Dasgupta '13 (Ph.D.), Gillings Innovation Fellow at the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health and senior scientist at the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center, will work with colleagues across Carolina to develop systems to detect and issue public warnings about dangerous adulterants in street drugs.
As infection rates of Covid-19 rise, or in some cases only plateau, across the United States, experts say those who haven’t gotten their shots yet may be relaxing safeguards too soon.
Dave Bailey accompanies his son, Walter, on a socially distanced grid before Walter’s first day back to in person school in April 2021. (Courthouse News photo / Karina Brown)
(CN) With millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses being given to Americans by the day, and public health officials announcing pieces of normal life that can resume post-vaccination, it’s understandable that many are feeling a sense that, after more than a year, the pandemic’s end is near.
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Positive messaging plays a key role in increasing COVID-19 mask compliance
Many organizations are looking at effective ways to communicate the importance of wearing a mask, especially as highly contagious new strains of coronavirus threaten to cause a surge in infections.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill suggest positive messages based on unity and togetherness are critical to supporting the effort and could help normalize wearing a mask in social settings.
Their findings, published in December in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, give public health experts, leaders and communicators insight to craft messaging that could potentially increase mask usage during the pandemic.
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