Research Projects

NCCPHP conducts research on a number of topics, ranging from foodborne diseases to factors affecting evacuation during hurricanes. Examples of recent research projects conducted by NCCPHP include:

  • The roles of social cohesion, social capital, and social control associated with risk of evacuation failure from Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina
  • North Carolina's capacity to plan, prepare for, and respond to public health emergencies
  • Organization, function, and capacity of North Carolina's Public Health Regional Surveillance Team system and the teams’ impact on the public health system’s preparation and response to potential threats and hazards
  • Acute diarrheal illness diagnosis, counseling, and reporting practices among laboratory and healthcare practitioners in North Carolina
  • Sensitivity of foodborne disease surveillance, using the capture-recapture methodology
  • Performance of timely electronic public health surveillance systems in North Carolina
  • Evaluation of the Emergency Department Data Stream of the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT)
  • Developing public health informatics tools for outbreak management of foodborne diseases in North Carolina
  • Timeliness and completeness of case reporting in the North Carolina communicable disease surveillance system
  • Rapid assessment of the public’s perception of the H1N1 vaccine in Orange and Alamance counties, North Carolina
  • Demographic features, risk factors, and use of health care among individuals with acute HIV infection in North Carolina
  • Unexpected transmission of HIV among college students in the southeastern United States

NCCPHP also shares staff with the North Carolina Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Center (NCPERRC), a new research center funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to strengthen and improve public health preparedness capacity through systems and services research. Learn more about NCPERRC.


To learn more about NCCPHP’s research activities please contact nccphp@unc.edu.


North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness
NC Institute for Public Health | Gillings School of Global Public Health | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 8165 | Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8165
Phone 919-843-5561 | Fax 919-843-5563 | email nccphp@unc.edu

NCCPHP is part of a national network of Centers for Public Health Preparedness funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through Grant/Cooperative Agreement U90/CCU424255.

Updated 8/31/09