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Researchers affiliated with the Child & Adolescent Health Services Program at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research are part of a multidisciplinary team that has received a five-year, $3.6 million grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to improve asthma care and outcomes for Hispanic adolescents. The... Read more » [...]
Bianca Allison, MD, MPH, a researcher with the Child and Adolescent Health Program at the Sheps Center, has received a competitive award from the Society of Family Planning to study access to over-the-counter oral contraception in North Carolina. The $175,000 award will support her project, “Implementing over-the-counter oral contraception in a Medicaid expansion state: Pharmacy... Read more » [...]
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 » [...]