Anglo-US public health research partnership forged

The University of Cambridge and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health will pioneer collaborative research in dementia, obesity, tobacco and alcohol, as well as disease progression and treatment. The collaboration will build on the two universities' complementary strengths in biostatistics, epidemiology, obesity, non-communicable diseases, ageing, health behaviour and global health." - A collaboration to transform public health has been forged between the University of Cambridge and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health.  The collaboration will build on the two universities' complementary strengths in biostatistics, epidemiology, obesity, non-communicable diseases, ageing, health behaviour and global health. In its first year, the partnership has committed research funding to four areas: dementia, obesity, tobacco and alcohol control policies, and health data gaps that limit our understanding of disease progression and treatment. Co-chairs of the research collaborative, Professor Carol Brayne, Professor of public health medicine and Director of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health, and Barbara Rimer, Dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor at UNC's School of Global Public Health, have high expectations for the partnership. They hope to obtain funding for at least two more projects in the coming year and to develop incubator funding for developmental planning work that will lead to public and private resourcing in both countries.