The National Institute of Child Health and Development has awarded $1.97 million to the The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine over the next five years to increase and improve the application of social sciences to the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS in the Peoples Republic of China.
This is one of nine such awards, the only one for China. Gail Henderson, Ph.D., professor of social medicine and sociology in the School of Medicine, is the principal investigator. Collaborators include Peoples University (Beijing), the China CDC National Center for AIDS Prevention and Control, and the Nanjing National Center for STD Prevention and Control, as well as collaborators at the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin.
“This Award will allow us to examine the potential of social scientists to collaborate with public health researchers in order to stop HIV epidemic in China,” said Dr. Henderson. The Award is part of the new UNC Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases. Investigators from all collaborating institutions are meeting in Chapel Hill this week to launch the program.