Lunch and Learn: Ebola in West Africa

3100 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Working as a Physician Assistant in Liberia, Sam Tozay helped with the West African Ebola outbreaks. Learn about his experience with regulatory research and his current project, the UNC Ebola... Read more »

Robert C. Millikan Seminar

2308 McGavran-Greenberg Hall McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

This year's seminar will be led by Timothy Rebbeck, PhD.  Dr. Rebbeck is the Vincent L. Gregory, Jr. Professor of Cancer Prevention in Epidemiology at the  Harvard T.H. Chan School Of... Read more »

BIOS Seminar: The sps3 experience

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Auditorium (0001 Michael Hooker Research Center) Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Leslie McClure, PhD, professor and chair of epidemiology and biostatistics at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health, will present "A Post-Hoc Evaluation of a Sample Size Re-estimation: The SPS3... Read more »

Preclincial Vaccine Evaluation Seminar

133 Rosenau Hall (Joan Heckler Gillings Auditorium) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Ralph Baric, PhD, professor in the UNC Departments of Epidemiology and Microbiology and Immunology, will present a seminar titled "Preclinical Vaccine Evaluation." Ralph Baric’s research specializes in coronaviruses and emerging... Read more »

PrEP in 2019 Talk

1131 Bioinformatics Building 130 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Christopher Hurt, MD, associate profession in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UNC School of Medicine, will present a talk titled "PrEP in 2019: State of the Science and... Read more »

Influenza Vaccines Talk

133 Rosenau Hall (Joan Heckler Gillings Auditorium) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Bruce Gellin, MD, MPH, president of global immunization at the Sabin Vaccine Institute, will present a talk titled "Influenza (seasonal and pandemic) Vaccines and Vaccination." Dr. Bruce Gellin joined the... Read more »

Seminar with Dr. Alex Rowe of the CDC

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Auditorium (0001 Michael Hooker Research Center) Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Dr. Alex Rowe, medical epidemiologist and chief of the Strategic & Applied Science Unit in the Malaria Branch of the CDC will present a talk entitled "Effectiveness of strategies to... Read more »

Biostatistics Seminar: Bounds and Estimators for the Risk Function

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Auditorium (0001 Michael Hooker Research Center) Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Stephen R. Cole, PhD, professor of epidemiology at the Gillings School, will present a talk on, "Bounds and Estimators for the Risk Function." Dr. Cole works to build accurate and... Read more »

Monitoring Health Progress: From Global Estimates to Local Health Data

Room 2002 Carolina Square 133 West Franklin Street, Suite 100, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The regular monitoring of key health indicators from mortality and morbidity to universal health coverage (UHC) progress is critical for the assessment of progress and performance, the development of strategies and plans, and the implementation of programs. This presentation will focus on the current balance between global estimates production and local data strengthening, the new... Read more »

Pragmatic Clinical Trials: A conversation with leadership at UNC’s Translational and Clinical Sciences program

219 Brinkhous-Bullitt Building Brinkhous-Bullitt Building, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (TraCS) at UNC's School of Medicine will host a conversation about how pragmatic trials differ from conventional clinical trials and which option is the right trial design for UNC’s research questions. Join us to learn more about pragmatic trials, and to share and discuss resources on campus for planning... Read more »

2019 Commencement Celebration

Carmichael Arena 310 South Rd., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health will host its spring Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 11, starting at 1 p.m. The commencement speaker will be Dr. Richard Besser, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. For more information, including details on parking and the post-Commencement reception, please see the official... Read more »

2019 CSTE Annual Conference

Raleigh Convention Center

The CSTE Annual Conference connects more than 1,700 public health epidemiologists from across the country and will include workshops, plenary sessions with leaders in the field of public health, oral... Read more »

Gillings School Alumni Association: Triangle-area Social

Jimmy V's Osteria + Bar 420 Fayetteville Street, Raleigh, NC, United States

This is a great opportunity to connect and network with fellow public health professionals during the week of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Conference. The event is... Read more »