UNC Gillings Epidemiology Students Bring Data Analysis Training to Public Health Practitioners Three doctoral students from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology, with support from the North Carolina Institute for Public Health (NCIPH), recently debuted their one-day introductory workshop on R language and the RStudio environment for 22 state and... Read more »
Get to Know Our Graduate Students! NCIPH regularly draws on the talents and expertise of faculty and students in our work, and this year has been no exception. In projects ranging from our statewide training needs assessment to consulting on data and metrics for the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, we have an awesome student... Read more »
January 14, 2019
Marshall, a Gillings School alumnus and international expert in injury prevention research, succeeds Dr. Rachel Wilfert, who served as NCIPH interim director from May 2017 to December 2018.
December 12, 2018
The Gillings School's North Carolina Institute for Public Health has been awarded funding from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust to help reduce substance misuse in McDowell County, North Carolina.
Nov. 2, 2018 The National Health Equity Research Webcast (NHERW) is an annual conversation on issues affecting minority populations. The most recent topic, “From Awareness to Action: Leveraging Resiliency in the Context of Toxic Stress and Adverse Childhood Experiences,” aired live on September 28th. NCIPH Training Associate Ki’Yonna Jones, MHA/MBA, shares some of her takeaways... Read more »
Oct. 18, 2018 The Kresge Foundation’s Emerging Leaders in Public Health (ELPH) initiative welcomed Dan Heath, New York Times bestselling author and professor at Duke University, and Kathryn Lawler, the first executive director for the Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement (ARCHI), to share their expertise with public health leaders from local health departments across... Read more »
September 4, 2018 The Gillings School will sponsor the 24th National Health Equity Research Webcast on Friday, Sept. 28, from 1:30 - 4 p.m. Participants may join in person or online to discuss “From Awareness to Action: Leveraging Resiliency in the Context of Toxic Stress and Adverse Childhood Experiences.”
Aug. 14, 2018 UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health was actively engaged with the National Association of Local Boards of Health 2018 Annual Conference held Aug. 8–10, 2018 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Several leaders from Gillings’ North Carolina Institute for Public Health (NCIPH) presented sessions on topics ranging from models for training new boards... Read more »
July 5, 2018 The Gillings School's North Carolina Institute for Public Health has announced that all 84 local health departments in North Carolina have achieved reaccreditation status through the N.C. Local Health Department Accreditation Program. The program is a collaboration of the Institute and the N.C. Association of Local Health Directors.
June 28, 2018 The Kresge Foundation has announced the 40 public health leaders who will work to transform the role of local public health departments in their communities as part of the third cohort of the Emerging Leaders in Public Health initiative, totaling the number of trained leaders to 100. The leaders will be supported by... Read more »
