Alexandra Lightfoot

[UNC School of Law @unc_law]

Sometimes the Carolina Law family actually is
family 🩵⚖

Last Friday, Professor Rachel Gurvich helped hand off
a diploma to her husband and graduating 3L Ken Chu.
Professor Tom Kelley also shared the experience with
his son Aidan.

[UNC Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) @unc_hpdp]

A team at HPDP, led by Alex Lightfoot (@aflight_foot), collaborated with tribal partners to enhance COVID-19 vaccine confidence in rural NC tribes. Through Talking Circles, they fostered open dialogue and worked towards building trust.

Read the story: https://t.co/v39lz64zS7

[UNC Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) @unc_hpdp]

Congratulations to @aflight_foot for receiving an award from @UNCRural for her project "Through the Lens of Recovery: Photovoice Initiative for Healing in Robeson County".

Read more here: https://t.co/7lTSAgu39K

[Alexandra Lightfoot @aflight_foot]

Thrilled with this news and excited to move our BSPH in Community and Global Health forward.

[Alexandra Lightfoot @aflight_foot]

Kudos to my doctoral advisee, Sophie To, on this great work.

[UNC Public Health @UNCpublichealth]

Doctoral student Sophie To has co-authored a new study that shines a light on how BIPOC youth with mental health concerns perceive media and are impacted by the stories that are told. https://t.co/RlrKx7rv73

[Alexandra Lightfoot @aflight_foot]

Kudos to MH-CIP ACHIEVE partner ⁦@_NicoleTeal⁩ on this important work ⁦@nihceal⁩ ⁦@nih_nhlbi⁩ ⁦@unc_cwhr⁩ ⁦@UNCOBGYN⁩ https://t.co/lYpZt68uty

[Alexandra Lightfoot @aflight_foot]

Inspiring two days with our ACHIEVE team from @unc_cwhr at the Summit. Loved engaging and exchanging ideas with other Maternal Health Community Implementation Program and IMPROVE CIP teams. @nargnc @_NicoleTeal

[Alexandra Lightfoot @aflight_foot]

@nihceal Inspiring 2 days at the Summit with our UNC ACHIEVE Team and the other Maternal Health Community Implementation Program and IMPROVE CIP teams.

[Alison Stuebe @astuebe]

Our approach to birth has been that the baby is the candy & the mom’s the wrapper, & once the baby is out of the wrapper we cast it aside. We need to recognize that the wrapper is a person — moms are getting really sick and dying. ⁦⁦⁦@nytimes⁩ https://t.co/pYs77xueu7

[Carolina Performing Arts @UNCPerformArts]

"Omar is a pained blast of beauty . . . "

Check out National Book Award winner Edward Ball's comprehensive review of Rhiannon Giddens' new opera, OMAR. The opera was co-commissioned and co-produced by CPA. We presented the N.C. premiere back in February.

https://t.co/d602H5TZh6

[GU Medical Center @gumedcenter]

Black people living in rural areas of North Carolina were found to have better mental health than white people despite their exposure to various forms of racism and discrimination. This paradoxical finding was reported by researchers at @Georgetown. https://t.co/z0uUyKgUDX

[Benjamin Mason Meier @BenjaminMMeier]

The UNC Minority Health Conference will focus on:
“Practicing Health as a Human Right: Policy, Ethics & the Law”
Amid rising racial inequalities in health, can the #RightToHealth provide a framework to ensure #HealthEquity?
🗓February 24, 2023
Register at https://t.co/cI2gyTehjZ

[Ida Griesemer @IdaGriesemer]

https://t.co/438y9v9tjB

Coauthored with @aflight_foot @birkensarah @suzmaman @KariThatcher @Mrs_Dixon9 @thankful_cy @equityorganizer et al.!

[Carolina Performing Arts @UNCPerformArts]

Artists 🤝 Athletes

📹 Excellence in every leap.

@caleb2love @UNC_Basketball @GoHeels @UNC

Full video: https://t.co/LR4vd1xpfK

[Pedagogy in Health Promotion @PHP_SOPHE]

Developing an Antiracist Lens: Using Photography to Facilitate Public Health Critical Race Praxis in a Foundational MPH Course - Alexandra F. Lightfoot, Caroline R. Efird, Erika M. Redding, 2021 https://t.co/90pQCJRkCN

[Alexandra Lightfoot @aflight_foot]

Congrats to lead author @LemastersKate and the rest of our team on this new publication.

[Journal of Participatory Research Methods @JPRM_editor]

"Conducting Community-Based Research on HIV Prevention with Youth During Covid-19" is another new YPAR article. You can read it here: https://t.co/QQqFtMMKzS #participatoryresearch #YPAR #JPRM #CBPR

[UNC Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) @unc_hpdp]

Dr. Alex Lightfoot (@aflight_foot), Dr. Jennifer Leeman (@JenniferLeeman1), and Dr. Maihan Vu are part of team behind the ACHIEVE study that received $12.5 million in funding from @nih_nhlbi to identify and treat hypertension in pregnancy and postpartum. https://t.co/bB3Nm3CeMz

[Camelia Kuhnen🏳️‍🌈 @CameliaKuhnen]

Stop 2 #TarHeelBusTour: The Greensboro Health Disparities Collaborative. Community activists working with researchers & physicians to address racism in healthcare, eg. disparities in completion of care between Black & white breast or lung cancer patients. Hugely impactful work.