Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor Adaora Adimora is the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Award recipient

Award presentation and Dr. Adimora's acceptance remarks (view recording)

Nomination letters (disclosed after the award presentation and acceptance) from professors Ethan Basch, Gail Henderson and Victor Schoenbach (nomination letters)

Announcement (below - excerpted from UNC Faculty Governance News, September 2020 - full issue)

FACULTY GOVERNANCE NEWS

SEPTEMBER 2020

Meeting of the Faculty Council on September 11

Faculty Council members and presenters attended on Zoom, with livestream on YouTube. Preliminary agenda, link to full recording, and journal of proceedings are at this link.

Adimora to receive Thomas Jefferson Award

Professor Ada Adimora is this year's Thomas Jefferson Award recipient. A Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor in the School of Medicine and professor of epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, Dr. Adimora's research focuses on the epidemiology of STDs and HIV in woman and under-served populations in order to reduce transmission rates using community-based approaches. In 2019, she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, which is regarded as one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.