Lauren G. Leve is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies. She studies the political and cultural dynamics of religion in South Asia using ethnographic studies of religion as a window into broader issues of local and global life. The … Read more

Alice Ammerman is the Director of the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and Professor of Nutrition in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. Her research focuses on design, testing, implementation and dissemination of innovative clinical and … Read more

GRADUATE FELLOW My name is Lindsay Savelli and I am a 2nd year MPH student in the Health Equity, Social Justice and Human Rights concentration. I currently serve as the Graduate Fellow for the Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research, work … Read more

Melvin Jackson, MSPH, has over 30 years of experience in public health research and program coordination. He is the Director of Operations for Strengthening The Black Family, Incorporated, a community-based nonprofit organization in Raleigh, NC. Mr. Jackson serves as Community … Read more

Director, Angela Stuesse is a cultural anthropologist broadly interested in social inequality in the Americas and specializing in the methodologies of activist research. Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies and Advisory Board Member of the Latina/o Studies Program, much … Read more

Geni Eng is a co-director of the Community Health Scholars post-doctoral program. She teaches community organization; cross-cultural aspects of health education practices; community diagnosis; and health issues relevant to women, ethnic minorities, and developing nations. Her current research projects apply community-based … Read more

Formerly a librarian, I am currently a PhD student in the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. I research print and online publishing spaces used by autistic self-advocates who are re-shaping public and scientific discourses about the … Read more

My name is Erica Janko and, as of Fall 2021, I am a third-year PhD student in the Department of Sociology. My research sits at the intersection of work and power. My master’s thesis examines the relationship among work insecurity, … Read more

Ariana Ávila is a medical/sociocultural anthropologist interested in food as a form of care among the farmworker community in Immokalee, Florida. Her research is guided by viewing food insecurity in Immokalee as food apartheid which better describes the violence of … Read more

My name is Asia Carter, and I am a first-year Master of Public Health student in the Health Behavior department and entered the program in Fall of 2021. I am a graduate research assistant in the Health Behavior department working … Read more