Links to archival webpages and interviews.
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- Van Sizar Allen
Van Allen received his MPH in August 1962 from the Department of Health Education in the UNC School of Public Health. He and classmate Julian Lewis were the school's first two African American graduates. In 1969 Mr. Allen received his PhD in Health Education at UNC.
- An interview with Barbara Baylor
"How do we achieve health equity? By embracing the values that we as faith leaders and health professionals know work! . . . If we fail to collaborate and communicate with each other to end disparities and inequities, we will continue the legacy of the dry bones. These bones must live so that together we can envision a day when preventable death, illness, injury and disability, health disparities, inequities, racism, and discrimination will be eliminated and that every person will enjoy the best health possible. We must all speak life into our families, communities, places of worship, and each other so that any dry bones around us can be transformed and connected to one another with love, strength, courage, and a determination to live."
- Edward Ellis
PhD, 1964 (August). Edward V. Ellis was the second African American to receive a PhD from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health (three months after the first African American, William A. Darity, received his).
- Eugenia (Geni) Eng
Geni received her MPH in 1978 and her DrPH in December 1983 from the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, and then served on the HBHE faculty for her distinguished career.
- John Wesley Hatch, Jr.
DrPH, 1975. One of the first African American faculty at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, John Hatch became one of the only African American full professors at the school, retiring as a Kenan Distinguished Professor.
- M. Anita Page Holmes
1972 MPH and a founding member of the Minority Student Caucus
- Ethel Jean Jackson
Alumna (MPH 1974), Clinical Assistant Professor (retired 1998)
- Bernice Otudeko
MPH, 1966. A teacher in the (segregated) Chapel Hill-Carrboro School System, before enrolling in Health Education, Bernice Otudeko became the first woman (and first African American) to sing with the UNC Men's Glee Club.
- Theodore Parrish
Theodore (Ted) Parrish received his DrPH from Health Behavior and Health Education in 1977, and joined the Health Education faculty at North Carolina Central University, and became chair. He also founded the Pine Knolls Community Housing Program and chaired the board for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.
- Barbara Pullen-Smith
1981 BSPH and first director of the NC Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities
- LeonardDawson-MemorialServiceProgram-2006.pdf
- La Verne Reid
MPH 1973; La Verne Reid worked for health departments in Wake County, Boston, and NYC. She earned her PhD from The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University in 1999 and then joined the faculty in the Department of Health Education at NCCU, where she later served as chair and later interim dean.