Joy L. Wood

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• In Memoriam
  Joy Wood passed away on Sunday, November 23, 2025.

  A staff member in the Department of Epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, she worked with legendary faculty, including Professor Carl M. Shy.

  Born in Livingston, New Jersey, Joy received her B.S. from Wake Forest and an M.S. from Florida State University. She met and married her husband Tom in Nashville, Tennessee, where she worked for an educational project sponsored by Peabody College. A year later she and Tom moved to Chapel Hill, where she worked as a research programmer in the Department of Epidemiology in the UNC school of public health. She and Tom also raised their son Michael. Joy retired from UNC in 2010.

  Joy has been a longtime member of Binkley Baptist church and has volunteered there and at the Interfaith Council of Chapel Hill and Carrboro.

Research articles

• Heart attack victims on Medicaid, from poor areas, face longer delays reaching hospital: study
  UNC News Archives, Sept. 24, 2008.
• A Case Control Study of Multiple Myeloma at Four Nuclear Facilities
  Steve Wing,, David Richardson, Susanne Wolf, Gary Mihlan, Doug Crawford-Brown, Joy Wood. Annals of Epidemiology. April 2000; 10(3):144-153
• Job factors, radiation and cancer mortality at OAK ridge national Laboratory: Follow-up through 1984
  Steve Wing, Carl M. Shy, Joy L. Wood, Susanne Wolf, Donna L. Cragle, William Tankersley, E. L. Frome. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. February 1993; 23(2):265-279.
• Mortality Among Workers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Evidence of Radiation Effects in Follow-up Through 1984
  Steve Wing, PhD; Carl M. Shy, Joy L. Wood, Susanne Wolf, Donna L. Cragle, E. L. Frome. JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association. March 20, 1991 1991;265(11):1397-1402.