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Bianca Allison, MD, MPH, a researcher with the Child & Adolescent Health Services Program at the Sheps Center and Associate Professor of Pediatrics, was recently quoted in an NPR story examining new federal data showing that U.S. teen birth rates reached another historic low in 2025. The NPR article, which draws on newly released data... Read more » [...]
A team of UNC researchers recently published a new study examining how often youth with attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ask their health care providers the questions they have about their condition. The article, “How Often Do Youth Ask Their Providers the Questions They Checked on an Attention‑Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Question Prompt List?”, appeared in the Journal... Read more » [...]
The Sheps Center is pleased to announce that Dr. Bianca Allison, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine and researcher with the Child & Adolescent Health Services Program at Sheps, has been selected as a recipient of the 2026–2027 Junior Faculty Development Award. The annual awards, funded by IBM and... Read more » [...]
At the Academy of Communication in Healthcare’s (ACH) 2025 International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH), #UNCPharmacy Regional Associate Dean Betsy Sleath was awarded the 30th Annual George L. Engel Award! This award recognizes Betsy’s outstanding research contributing to the theory, practice and teaching of effective healthcare communication and related skills. Betsy is a long-time... Read more » [...]
Congratulations to Bianca Allison, MD, MPH on being a recipient of the 2025-26 Jefferson-Pilot Fellowship in Academic Medicine! Dr. Allison is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and also a researcher with the Child and Adolescent Health Services Program at the Sheps Center. The Jefferson-Pilot Fellowship in Academic Medicine is amongst the most... Read more » [...]