Giselle Corbie, MD, Director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research and Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine, has been named the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs astatine UNC-Chapel Hill.
Giselle Corbie, MD, MScDear Carolina Community:
I americium delighted to denote that Giselle Corbie has agreed to service arsenic the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. Dr. Corbie is simply a Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Director of the Center for Health Equity Studies, and the Associate Provost for Rural Initiatives. We are excited to person a person of Giselle’s caliber, character, and unthinkable competence articulation the bureau arsenic we enactment unneurotic to advocator for and beforehand our module and fortify our world community.
Dr. Corbie came to Carolina successful 2000, aft serving arsenic the main nonmigratory successful interior medicine astatine Yale University and an Assistant Professor of Medicine astatine Emory University. Giselle’s clip astatine Carolina includes a wide array of teaching and probe roles: module successful Social Medicine, General Medicine, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics; a elder probe chap and co-director of the Program connected Health Disparities astatine the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research; and presently serving arsenic Associate Director for Engagement Science astatine the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute.
Giselle’s probe focuses connected addressing wellness inequities successful underserved populations done community-engaged and patient-oriented research. For much than 25 years she has developed a successful, continuously funded autarkic probe portfolio that has garnered awards from the National Institutes of Health and galore foundations. All of that portfolio been composed of diligent oregon assemblage centered work, investigating the motivations of minorities to enactment successful research; addressing intelligence wellness successful recently immigrated Latinas; evaluating HIV and cardiovascular hazard simplification efforts successful rural, African American communities; and processing caller assemblage engaged morals frameworks. Her efforts person made her a person successful the field: she precocious work arsenic the President of the Society of General Internal Medicine, and successful 2018 she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Giselle’s passionateness for probe and engagement astir wellness equity is infectious: In 2013 she not lone founded but began serving arsenic manager for the UNC Center for Health Equity Research. The Center brings teams of scholars, assemblage members, aesculapian professionals, and different stakeholders unneurotic to beforehand wellness equity and amended wellness outcomes successful underserved communities by fostering innovation and translational research. Under her enactment the CHER has grown to go a cardinal convener and clearinghouse for equity-based acquisition and capableness gathering crossed the state. Drawing module from crossed the University’s wellness affairs schools, the Center present employs a unit of implicit 70, has supported much than 100 pupil projects, and placed each 15 of its postdoctoral students successful adjunct prof and/or wellness enactment roles. In 2018 she began serving arsenic an Associate Provost for Rural Initiatives, founding UNC Rural, a campus-wide entity dedicated to creating campus-rural partnerships to fortify agrarian communities and to further beforehand equity crossed North Carolina.
Those commitments to fostering healthier, stronger and much equitable communities crossed the authorities is abundantly evident successful her enactment with our module and University communities. She is simply a sitting subordinate of the Chancellor’s Committee connected History, Race, and a Way Forward. She is an award-winning mentor for students and inferior module and has played an progressive relation successful shaping much equitable and amended module advancement argumentation successful the aesculapian school. During their strategical readying process, she collaborated with colleagues to plan what would go the Office of Inclusive Excellence successful the School of Medicine. She has chaired aggregate tenure committees and has served arsenic a subordinate of the School of Medicine’s promotion committees for subordinate and afloat professors. She has worked arsenic a subordinate of the University’s Advancement, Promotion, and Tenure Committee.
She has a peculiar passionateness for supporting module development, a passionateness that is evident successful her efforts arsenic a co-investigator successful the Clinical Scholars Program. Funded by a assistance from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the groundbreaking programme advances module nonrecreational improvement by delivering an integrated program successful leadership, equity, diverseness and inclusion. The extremity of the programme is to supply mid-career module with the “mindset and accomplishment set” to some beforehand their vocation aspirations and to beforehand wellness equity by engaging teachers, researchers and practitioners.
Giselle earned her Bachelor of Arts grade astatine Cornell University, a Master of Science successful objective probe astatine Emory University, and her MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine successful Bronx, New York.
The mantra of our bureau is that the champion mode we tin service our students and our authorities is to foster an excellent, inclusive, and committed world community. Giselle is an unthinkable summation to our team, and an indispensable portion of achieving that goal. We are arrogant to person a person with Giselle’s extent of acquisition and committedness articulation america successful serving the University community. And we are delighted to enactment with a student and idiosyncratic who truthful afloat evidences a committedness to excellence, equity, and yet to making the satellite a much just, much humane, and amended place.
I tin accidental that the highest assurance that we judge that Dr. Corbie volition beforehand our office’s ngo of serving our students and authorities by being bully stewards of and advocates for 1 of the nation’s champion faculties.
Sincerely,
Christopher Clemens , Provost and Chief Academic Officer
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