Giselle Corbie-Smith featured in Women in Science Wednesday

Giselle Corbie-Smith is a social medicine professor in the UNC School of Medicine, as well as director of the Center for Health Equity Research and NC TraCS’ Community Academic Resources for Engaged Scholarship (CARES) Services. She is nationally recognized for her scholarly work on the practical and ethical issues regarding involvement of minorities in research.

When you were a child, what was your response to this question: “What do you want to be when you grow up?”

I actually didn’t have a childhood dream of being anything in particular. My parents stressed the idea of education as the path to whatever you wanted to be in life.