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Date:10/9/2008

>"I am proud UNC has been selected by the CDC as one of seven new Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers," Burr said. "Congress called for public health systems research in the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act, which was signed into law in 2006. North Carolina has been a leader in public health preparedness and this new funding will help the state, and the nation, evaluate ways to create and maintain sustainable preparedness and response systems for future emergencies."

Pia MacDonald, Ph.D., director of the NC Center for Public Health Preparedness and research assistant professor of epidemiology in the public health school, will serve as director of the new center as well as principal investigator of one of the research projects. Carol Gunther-Mohr, currently a research associate with the public health preparedness center, will be the project's program manager.

The center will be a cooperative effort among researchers from UNC, North Carolina State University, the University of Arkansas, the University of Kentucky and public health practitioners from the North Carolina Division of Public Health.

The six other institutions to receive funding from the CDC to set up centers are: Emory University, Harvard School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Washington.

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Contact: Patric Lane patric_lane@unc.edu 919-962-8596 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Source:Eurekalert

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