Well Said: Jonathan Parr and Carolina’s hepatitis research
In this week's podcast, Jonathan Parr discusses how a team of Carolina researchers worked alongside partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to study hepatitis B and C.
Dr. Jonathan Parr of the UNC School of Medicine has spent his career studying diseases that disproportionately impact lower-income communities throughout the world.
His interest in conditions like malaria and hepatitis took Parr to central Africa to assist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s first country-wide health survey and study the spread of hepatitis C. After discovering approximately 1 percent of patients were infected with the virus, the team was asked to conduct a similar survey on hepatitis B.
In this episode of Well Said, Parr describes his experience in the Congo and the expected impact this research will have on the country.
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