The UNC Gillings Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering is hosting a Centennial Symposium and tailgating event on Homecoming weekend: November 5–6, in person, on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus November... Read more »
NOTICE: Owing to unexpected circumstances, this event has been cancelled - though this series will continue in the near future. Please contact cgmason@email.unc.edu with any questions. This virtual, podcast-style event highlights Gillings School of Global Public Health alumni discussing life after the Gillings School. This series showcases a broad range of public health alumni who... Read more »
EVNoire, founded by maternal and child health alum Dr. Shelley Francis, is hosting its annual National E-Mobility DEI Conference on 10/19 (virtual program) and 10/20 (in-person, DC) at the National Press Club. Keynote speakers include Van Jones, CNN Analyst / former White House staff, Dr. Robert Bullard "Father of the Environmental Justice Movement" and Dr.... Read more »
Location: Virtual (ZOOM) Date: Friday, February 10, 2023 Time: Noon Eastern/9 a.m. Pacific Moderator: Camille G. Mason, Assistant Director of Alumni Giving and Engagement, UNC Gillings School of Global Public... Read more »
Dr. Katie Kaney, DrPH, MBA, FACHE, a 2013 alum of the Gillings School and member of the Public Health Foundation Board of Directors, presents her first book. "Both/And: Medicine and... Read more »
Join Gillings School students and alumni for ENGAGE! This event offers networking opportunities for alumni and students alike. Held the day before the Minority Health Conference, the event was originally launched as REENGAGE to strengthen connections between the Gillings School and its alumni community. All alumni and current students of the Gillings School are invited to come together to build community and fellowship at this event hosted by the inclusive excellence committee of the UNC Gillings Alumni Association Advisory Board and the Minority Student Caucus. Heavy hors d'oeuvres will be served.
DC Gillings School Social Location: The Hamilton, 600 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20005 Date: Thursday, March 16, 2023 (During ASPPH March 15–17) Time: 6 – 8 p.m. Eastern Registration required.
Join the Department of Biostatistics to hear from a panel of UNC biostatistics alumni about their experiences interviewing for employment opportunities. These alums can answer your questions about what it's like to work in academia, government, industry and non-profit. This informational session is a great opportunity to network and prepare for the job search process.... Read more »
Alumni Virtual Panel (Admissions) Location:Virtual (ZOOM) Date:Tuesday, April 4, 2023 Time: 5 – 6 p.m. Registration link to come.
Featuring Jeanette Reyes, PhD, physical scientist at the U.S. EPA, and Karen Setty, PhD Come directly engage with ESE alums! Ask honest and practical questions about life in environmental sciences... Read more »
Featuring Rebecca Martinez, PhD, Riley Mulhern, PhD, and Paul Fitzgerald Come directly engage with ESE alums! Ask honest and practical questions about life in environmental sciences workplaces. Watch online.
The Gillings School of Global Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management presents: The 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient Lecture with Gary L. Freed, MD, MPH ('92) from the... Read more »
Location: Torch & Crown Brewing Company 12 Vandam St New York, NY 10013 Date: Thursday, June 8th, 2023 Time: 6 – 8 p.m. Eastern Registration required.
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An opportunity for UNC-Chapel Hill community members to obtain a flu vaccination on campus on Thursday, Sept. 28 in the Michael Hooker Research Center, Lower Level Atrium. Additional opportunities will be held on: Thursday, Oct. 5, Noon - 4 p.m.– Koury Oral Health Sciences Building, Atrium Lobby Thursday, Oct. 12, Noon - 4 p.m. –... Read more »
An opportunity for UNC-Chapel Hill community members to obtain a flu vaccination on campus on Thursday, Oct. 5 in the Koury Oral Health Sciences Building, Atrium Lobby. Additional opportunities will... Read more »
An opportunity for UNC-Chapel Hill community members to obtain a flu vaccination on campus on Thursday, Oct. 12 in the Genetic Medicine Research Building, Atrium Lobby Additional opportunities will be held on: Friday, Oct. 20, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. – Frank Porter Graham Student Union (Employee Appreciation Day) There are several other opportunities for... Read more »
This short course is designed to provide participants with fundamentals on how to design, conduct, and analyze cognitive interviews. Participants will have the opportunity to practice specific cognitive interviewing techniques, including think-alouds, probing, and observation. Participants will also learn about revising survey questions based on interpreting cognitive interview results. Contact Jill Stevens with questions
An opportunity for UNC-Chapel Hill community members to obtain a flu vaccination on campus on Friday, Oct. 20, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. – Frank Porter Graham Student Union (Employee... Read more »
This 2-day course (10/23 2-4pm & 10/25 3-5pm) is designed to provide a guide for consumers of probability-based panels to understand what they are working with: What questions to ask and what features to understand about probability panels in evaluating their use for data collections, and how to best use probability-based panel data. It will... Read more »
This course will cover topics beyond the scope of the Introductory to Qualtrics short course. We will take a deeper dive into “Survey Flow” features including routing with branches, embedded data, customizing the “End of Survey” experience, and randomization. We will explore embedded data, and several ways you can import or set data in your... Read more »
Join us for a joyous weekend filled with laughter, reminiscing, catching up, and reconnecting with your fellow graduates. Crystal Richards, one of your esteemed classmates, is taking the lead in... Read more »
This course will focus on both qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques to measure health. First, participants will learn about collecting qualitative data on health through semi-structured interviews and researcher driven photo-elicitation interviews. Second, we give an introduction to the design and implementation of quantitative surveys. Participants will learn more about the design of survey... Read more »
This course will introduce participants to some of the best practices of professional software development. Participants will learn to structure their Python code into reusable functions and store those functions as separate scripts and/or packages. Participants will learn to write automated tests for their functions, to help confirm that results are as expected and to... Read more »
This course is the second in a two-part scale development course series on scale development. Part one of the series focused on the general theories and methods used in the scale development process. This second portion focuses on the analytic methods used to statistically test, refine, and validate scale data. These methods include Cronbach’s alpha,... Read more »
This is a full-day, intensive, interactive course focused on using the Dataverse Application Programming Interface (API) to interact with data archived in a Dataverse-based repository. The session will be broken... Read more »
Engage offers networking opportunities for alumni and students alike. Held the day before the Minority Health Conference, the event was originally launched as “Re-Engage” to strengthen connections between the Gillings School and its alumni community.
