Officials at UNC recently announced the launch of a new Collaborating Center on Social Innovation in Health, in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO). The new center in Chapel Hill will work on raising the vaccination rate, improving access to sexual health and reproductive health services, and working to reach underserved populations by developing new digital health services – though leaders of the center are quick to point out that ‘innovation’ isn’t always about new technology.

Read more about the center here.

Aaron welcomes one of the center’s co-directors, Liz Chen of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

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