Addressing the Opioid Epidemic

Lower Atrium, Michael Hooker Research Center 135 Dauer Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Come help assemble naloxone kits and learn about NC legislative initiatives addressing the opioid epidemic with the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition. This event is sponsored by the North Carolina... Read more »

GillingsX

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

Are you a Gillings student or post-doc doing innovative global health work? Is your practicum or research focused on solving important public health challenges around the world? Are you involved... Read more »

System (in)Justice Symposium

Sonja Haynes Stone Center 150 South Rd., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Join the UNC Gender-Based Violence Research Group and the Injury Prevention Research Center for the 2019 Gender-Based Violence Symposium: Systems (in)Justice: Unpacking institutional responses to sexual violence to inform research and... Read more »

UNC Climate Change and Resilience Symposium

UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health 135 Dauer Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

UNC's 6th Annual Climate Change & Resilience Symposium will be held on Friday April 12. The event will feature keynote speaker Brigadier General Stephen Cheney, a retired Marine who is... Read more »

12th Annual Harry Guess Memorial Lecture

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

Dr. David Graham, Associate Director at the Food and Drug Administration, will be giving a lecture titled "Observational studies, effectiveness, and real-world evidence: How do we get there from here?" A reception catered by Tandem will follow the lecture. This event is sponsored by the UNC student chapter of the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology and... 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... Read more »

The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) 2019 Research Conference

Carolina Inn University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) annual Research Conference is a unique interdisciplinary forum that brings together researchers and clinicians for a program dedicated to increasing knowledge, stimulating research, and promoting prevention and treatment of cancer and cancer recurrence through nutrition, physical activity and weight management. For more information, including the complete program, visit... 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 »

Health Equity Summer Intensive

215 Health Sciences Library 335 S. Columbia St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The Health Equity Summer Intensive aligns with the UNC Center for Health Equity Research's mission by creating space for community leaders, health care professionals, and academics to learn new tools for health equity research. The Center is hosting its first Health Equity Summer Intensive, a two-day training on innovative methods and approaches to conducting health... Read more »

Vaccines & Vaccine Hesitancy Webinar

Webinar

Learn about this challenge and what you can do to enable children to access the vaccines they need to protect them from an array of preventable and potentially lethal diseases. Presenters Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, is dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at... Read more »

Data User Workshop: Add Health Parents Study

Duke University

The Center for Population Health and Aging (CPHA) at Duke University, in collaboration with UNC's Carolina Population Center (CPC), will host a Data User Workshop for the Add Health Parents Study (AHPS) August 13-14, 2019, at Duke University. The workshop will cover an in-depth introduction to the Add Health Parents Study Data, including the following... Read more »

Gillings Welcome: Building Community

Armfield Atrium, Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

This cookout connects Gillings School students from various groups (e.g., students of color, international students, transfer students LGBTQ students, students with families or students who have been out of school for more than 10 years) to each other in order to introduce new connections and build community! Attendees will also be welcomed by Gillings School... Read more »

Gillings Welcome and Orientation for New Residential MPH Students

Armfield Atrium, Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

At orientation you will receive information on academic advising and faculty mentoring, course registration, MPH Core courses, practicum requirements, UNC policies, career and global resources, your concentration and your culminating experience. Be sure to join us for a great fun filled start to your MPH! Breakfast and lunch will be provided. View the tentative agenda