Marijuana Legalization: Brain Science, Community Impact and Risk Prevention

All are invited to register for this free symposium on the topic of marijuana legalization on Feb. 22. Representatives from basic science and community-based prevention will discuss strategies to respond appropriately to spreading changes in state policies. Participants will learn from Colorado's experience with legalization and also discuss North Carolina's current strategy. Learn more and... Read more »

Semblie: Introduction and New Feature Demo

Join the NC TraCS Institute for a live training session for Semblie, a free platform for developing digital health interventions. Semblie was designed with the needs of public health researchers... Read more »

The impact of sleeping and waking behaviors on maternal health during pregnancy

Please join NC TraCS for a CTSA Grand Rounds seminar, "The impact of sleeping and waking behaviors on maternal health during pregnancy," with Marquis Hawkins, PhD. He will discuss his work on sleep health characteristics and gestational weight gain. Hawkins is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh and... Read more »

Planning Implementation Strategies using Implementation Mapping

Please join NC TraCS and Maria Fernandez, PhD, for a seminar – Planning implementation strategies using Implementation Mapping – on April 12 at 8 a.m. EDT. Implementation Mapping (IM) provides a systematic process for developing strategies to improve the adoption, implementation, and maintenance of evidence-based interventions in real-world settings. In this seminar, learn how IM... Read more »

Advancing Implementation Science in Precision Public Health: Ensuring Health Equity and Balancing Evolution and Sustainment

Join Dr. David Chambers on April 27 at 2 p.m. EDT for a virtual seminar on implementation science in precision public health. This talk will discuss challenges and opportunities, assumptions and ongoing activities toward advancing implementation science in the context of dynamic systems, an evolving evidence base and a desire to sustain effective health interventions... Read more »

Canvas Challenge Summer 2022

The Canvas Challenge is a multi-module, guided-paced course available fully online on Canvas for Gillings’ teaching faculty. The Challenge affords instructors a collaborative space to refine their pedagogical practices with discussion among faculty, facilitation of an instructional designer, and support in course development in Canvas. Register for the summer cohort by COB on Friday, July... Read more »

New NIH Data Management & Sharing Policy Info Session

This session will cover the scope and requirements of NIH’s new Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy that goes into effect on January 25, 2023. Supplementary NIH guidance on the DMS plans required in proposals, data repository selection and allowable costs in proposal budgets will also be reviewed. Some resources and tools to help researchers... Read more »

Population-based digitalized interventions with telephone coaching for childhood anxiety, preschool disruptive behavior and prenatal depression

136 Tate-Turner-Kuralt Bldg. (Auditorium, School of Social Work) Tate-Turner-Kuralt Bldg, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) welcomes Andre Sourander, MD, as the first distinguished speaker of their 2022-2023 series on September 28 at 3:00 p.m. Dr. Sourander will... Read more »

Storytelling for Health Impact

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

Want to better communicate your health passions to interdisciplinary audiences? Join the Gillings IPEP Student Interest Group for an interactive session on "Storytelling for Health Impact" to learn ways to... Read more »

UNC-Duke Global Mental Health Seminar

2005 Michael Hooker Research Center (William L. Roper Conference Room) Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, United States

A monthly hybrid (Zoom or in-person) seminar will deepen early-career networks and pose next-generation questions for global mental health. Dr. Felicity Brown will present on "Developing evidence-based psychological care for... Read more »

An intersectional approach to gender-based violence and women’s health in the United States

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

Join Tiara Willie, PhD, assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for a Health Behavior Faculty Candidate Talk titled "An intersectional approach to gender-based violence and women’s health in the United States." This event will be held Rosenau Hall 133 and online. Watch online. Contact Wendi Seiler with questions.

Leveraging behavioral science to inform cancer prevention policies

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

Join Marissa Hall, PhD, for a Health Behavior Faculty Candidate Talk titled "Leveraging behavioral science to inform cancer prevention policies." This talk will be presented in person in Rosenau Hall 133 and online. Watch online. Contact Wendi Seiler with questions.

Social network analysis: An opportunity to surmount HIV disparities among racial/ethnic, sexual, and gender minority communities

230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Please join the Department of Health Behavior for Dr. Cho-Hee Shrader's job talk, titled “Social network analysis: An opportunity to surmount HIV disparities among racial/ethnic, sexual, and gender minority communities" Dr. Shrader is a prevention scientist and a postdoctoral research fellow in the ICAP at Columbia University Global HIV Implementation Science Program. In-Person, The Fred... Read more »

Using Community-Engaged Mixed Methods to Inform Chronic Disease Prevention Among Rural Appalachian Women

230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Jessica R. Thompson, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center. Her research focuses on community-based approaches, chronic disease prevention, Appalachian women's health and systems science. She recently received a Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) titled "Reducing Lung Cancer Risk Among Appalachian Women Using... Read more »

Project RESTART: Using Interdisciplinary Teams to Address Domestic Violence

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

Join the Gillings IPEP Student Interest Group and the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center during National Public Health Week to honor the theme of Violence Prevention and learn more about Project RESTART (Restorative, Effective Solutions Toward Accountability, Responsibility and Treatment), an interdisciplinary research initiative to develop a survivor-centered Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP). Attendees will... Read more »

Influenza (flu) Vaccination Clinic

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... Read more »

Green Zone Training

Green Zone training is for faculty, staff, and students who wish to learn more about the military connected student experience. The goals are to train members of the Carolina community... Read more »

Influenza (flu) Vaccination Clinic

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 »

Influenza (flu) Vaccination Clinic

Genetic Medicine Research Building, Atrium Lobby

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 »

Cognitive Interviewing in Survey Research

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,... Read more »

Influenza (flu) Vaccination Clinic

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 »

Intermediate Qualtrics

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... Read more »

Registration open for “Quantitative and Qualitative Data Collection Techniques for Health Measurements”

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 »

Modular Design and Automated Testing with Python

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... Read more »

Multi-Item Scale Development Part 2

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... Read more »

Michael Sherraden Lecture Series: Growing Up in Uncertain Times

136 Tate-Turner-Kuralt Bldg. (Auditorium, School of Social Work) Tate-Turner-Kuralt Bldg, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Dr. Thoai Ngo is vice president of Social and Behavioral Science Research at the Population Center in New York. He’ll speak as a guest of Global Social Development Innovations at the UNC School of Social Work about “Growing Up In Uncertain Times: Evidence and Action for the World’s 1.8 billion Youth." In 2017, Ngo was named... Read more »

UNC Italian Food, Culture and Health Info Session

0003/0004 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Come out to the info session to learn more about this opportunity. We invite you to participate in a unique traveling study abroad program, where you will embark on an... Read more »

Dataverse API

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 into to two segments over the course of the day: 1) we will cover the basics of what an API is, how it works, and... Read more »

A Seminar in Honor of Wendy Brewster: “Endometrial Cancer, Health Disparities, and Mentorship”

G100 Bondurant Hall 321 South Columbia St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Please join the Women's Health Multidisciplinary Consortium for a special seminar this month in honor of Wendy Brewster, MD, PhD. Wendy was a trailblazer in women's health and racial health disparities at UNC, as well as a beloved mentor. To continue carrying on her legacy, the "Endometrial Cancer, Health Disparities, and Mentorship" seminar will feature... Read more »

Advancing Global Health Training Through Collaboration – Talk

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

Health Behavior Presents: Teaching Assistant Professor Candidate Naya Villarreal, MPH, is the Gillings Global Health Associate Director in the Global Health unit at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public... Read more »