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- In Memoriam
Dr. Jo Anne Earp passed away on 11/18/2022. She will be fondly remembered and deeply missed.
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- 0-WereYouLookingFor go.unc.edu/jearp?
Page for online donations in honor/memory of Jo Anne Earp
- 225 years of Tar Heels: Jo Anne Earp
University Communications, Wednesday, November 7, 2018
As a researcher at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, Jo Anne Earp founded the NC Breast Cancer Screening Program to increase mammography screenings for older black women in poor, rural counties.
- A Legacy in Action - Retirement Celebration
"Dr. Jo Anne Earp: A Legacy in Action" Jo Anne Earp's Retirement celebration, April 12-13, 2013 - symposium and dinner
Photos by Tom Fuldner; cellphone audio recordings from the dinner by Victor Schoenbach.
- Faculty profile at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
- Jo Anne Earp Papers, 1977-2014
Collection Number: 40484 in the University Archives at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library.
Jo Anne Earp's faculty papers, 1980-2014, including materials related to the North Carolina Breast Cancer Screening Project, a twelve year program to close the racial gap in breast cancer screening in rural counties; numerous questionnaires developed by Dr. Earp; and materials related to Dr. Earp's course on patient advocacy, the first and one of only of its kind.
- Jo Anne Earp Tribute Fund
In April 2013, Jo Anne Earp, ScD, former chair and longtime professor of health behavior at the Gillings School, drew more than 200 current and former students, colleagues and friends to events celebrating her 40-year career in public health. Earp’s career has included 1960s activism, educating and mentoring hundreds of students, researching and advocating for women’s health, civil rights, and improved health care quality, equity and access.
- Reception to honor Kurt Ribisl being appointed the Inaugural Jo Anne Earp Distinguished Professor
Remarks by Dean Barbara Rimer, Elizabeth French, Jo Anne Earp, Eric Pevner, Shelley Earp, and Kurt Ribisl on the occasion of Kurt Ribisl being named the inaugural Jo Anne Earp Distinguished Professor. October 3, 2019, in the Bryan Courtyard of the Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, NC. Audio recording by Victor Schoenbach.
- Remarks at Ethel Jean Jackson retirement celebration
Dr. Earp chaired the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education (HBHE) at the time of Ethel Jean Jackson's retirement from the department's faculty. Dr. Earp created the committee that planned the celebration, approved the plans and provided funding, and in her tribute that evening announced a new award in Ethel Jean's honor, presenting it to then HBHE doctoral student Beth Moracco.
- RetirementCelebration
Dr. Jo Anne Earp: A Legacy in Action (Photos by Tom Fuldner)
Jo Anne Earp's Retirement - April 12-13, 2013 (209 photos)
- Second act (How they live, Chapel Hill Magazine)
Morgan Cartier Weston; photography by Beth Mann. Chapel Hill Magazine, November 2019: 108-120.
A historic home once owned by Bill and Ida Friday has been transformed into a contemporary oasis.
- The Jo Anne Earp Distinguished Professorship in Health Behavior
Carolina Public Health Magazine
- Voices of UNC Female Faculty: Then and Now
In this 2014 interview by Katie Womble, Jo Anne Earp discusses the impact her aspiration to be promoted had on her ability to speak out against harassment and sexism in the office.