Welcome to the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Family Medicine Research & Scholarship site. The Research and Scholarship Program is one of the Department’s major programs.

The Department’s research and scholarship mission is:

“(The) promotion of the discovery and dissemination of knowledge important to clinical practice, teaching and improvements in the organization of health care. We aspire for our research to answer questions that matter in individual and population primary health care.”

Important principles for our program and its mission are a commitment to:
• both research (discovering new knowledge) and other forms of scholarship (integrating work from disparate fields, translating work to new audiences, innovating in education)
• research and scholarship that are important to people and populations and to their primary care needs
• research and scholarship that address clinical, teaching, the organization of health care services and policy issues.

The Department’s strategies to support, strengthen and expand its research and scholarship efforts include:

• supporting the research interests and efforts of its senior and junior faculty on whose shoulders our current and future research success rests
• linking our work to the many resources, centers and faculty collaborators within UNC’s rich scholarly environment
• building a solid financial foundation through grants from federal (NIH, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Health Resources and Services Administration, CDC), state and foundation sources
• providing research fellowship programs whose graduates have been the lifeblood of the Department’s growth in researchers
• providing leadership in developing the science and contributions of primary care research across North Carolina and nationally.
Please feel welcome to explore the links within this website to learn more about our researchers and their activities.