A Discussion About the Future of Public Health and Health Policy and Management with Dr. Mark Diana. Dr. Diana is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management... Read more »
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”: Thinking about the future of Health Policy and Management with Dr. Allen Gifford. Dr. Gifford is Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Boston University School of Public Health and of Medicine in the BU School of Medicine, as well as a practicing physician. He leads the Health Services... Read more »
Health policy and management doctoral candidate Tyler Malone will present his dissertation research, "The effects of the Affordable Care Act Provisions on harmful substance use among young adults." This dissertation... Read more »
The Department of Health Policy and Management presents a chair candidate talk with Dr. Sarah Hawley titled "Building Health Policy and Management for the Future." Tuesday, March 21st 3:30 –... Read more »
The 2023 Gordon H. DeFriese Lecture will take place on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, at 1 p.m. at the NC Botanical Garden. Dr. Julia Adler-Milstein's presentation is titled “Turning Digital... Read more »
Doctoral candidate Loren Oh will present her dissertation research, "Detection and treatment of breast cancer in dually enrolled Medicare-Medicaid beneficiaries in accountable care organizations." Watch online. Contact Valerie Hooker with questions.
Health Behavior doctoral candidate Belinda-Rose Young will present her dissertation research, “State structural determinants of human trafficking: A global study.” This dissertation defense will take place via Zoom and in... Read more »
Doctoral candidate, Maggie (Holly) Byrne will present her dissertation research, "Gratitude, Warm Glow, and the Role they Play in the Pay-it-Forward Model." The presentation will be in person in McGavran-Greenberg room 1101-F (the health policy and management conference room), or via Zoom.
Designed to provide evidence-based non-medical interventions related to housing, food, transportation, interpersonal safety and toxic stress to high-need Medicaid beneficiaries in North Carolina, the Healthy Opportunities Pilot Program seeks to... Read more »
Dean’s Inclusive Excellence Lecture with Dr. David Williams Understanding and Effectively Addressing Inequities in Health Monday, April 3 10 - 11 A.M. Joan Heckler Gillings Auditorium (Rosenau 133) and streaming online Presented by the Department of Health Policy and Management and Gillings Inclusive Excellence Refreshments will be served immediately following the lecture. Dr. Williams is the... Read more »
Doctoral candidate in health policy and management Caitlin Biddell will present her dissertation research, "Impact of financial barriers to care on adverse healthcare events among cancer patients and survivors." This event will take place in Michael Hooker Research Center room 3005 and via Zoom. Contact Valerie Hooker with questions.
The Health Policy and Management Lunch and Learn Series presents: "Unfinished Journey: Health Care Reform in the Biden Administration and Beyond" with Dr. Jonathan Oberlander, PhD. Tuesday, April 11 at 12:30 p.m. Registration required. Contact Jake Stallard with questions.
Join the Women's Health Multidisciplinary Consortium for a panel discussing the impact of policy and advocacy on women's health. The event will take place in person at Bondurant G-100 on April 13 at 12:30 pm and on Zoom. Please register in advance. Lunch will be provided. Speakers include: Ciara Zachary, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health... Read more »
Daniel Dawes, JD, will give a keynote address titled, "The Political Determinants of Health." Mr. Dawes is a widely respected healthcare and public health leader, having authored two groundbreaking health policy books, 150 Years of ObamaCare and The Political Determinants of Health. He currently serves as Senior Vice President of Global Health Equity and the... Read more »
Gillings Research Unit Presents a two-part, virtual, education session on International Research Compliance. They will have speakers from the Export Controls Office, as well as the Office for the Vice Chancellor of Research. Part I speaker: William Bucha Export Compliance Manager UNC Export Compliance Office Division of Institutional Integrity and Risk Management Learn more and... Read more »
Gillings Research Unit Presents a two-part, virtual, education session on International Research Compliance. They will have speakers from the Export Controls Office, as well as the Office for the Vice... Read more »
The Public Health Leadership Student Association will host a screening and expert panel discussion of the documentary "Below the Belt," a film about the realities of living with endometriosis. Through... Read more »
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 »
Doctoral candidate Yucheng Hou will present her dissertation research, "Peer participation, spillover effects, and evaluation of the Medicare Shared Savings Program." Dissertation Committee Members: Justin Trogdon Marisa Domino Valerie Lewis Qing Gong Kevin Callison Watch online or in Michael Hooker Research Center 2005. Contact Valerie Hooker with questions.
Friday, June 2 2 - 4 P.M. Armfield Atrium, Michael Hooker Research Center Presented by the Department of Health Policy and Management (HPM) RSVP to attend! We invite anyone interested in honoring Morris to consider donating in support of the HPM department and furthering his commitment to mentoring students and the next generation of public health... Read more »
Health policy and management doctoral candidate Karl Johnson will present his dissertation research: "Public health governance to advance public health 3.0: Interrogating the strategies and governance structures of local governmental health departments in North Carolina and across the country." Watch live in Rosenau 133 or via zoom. Contact Valerie Hooker with questions.
Health policy and management doctoral candidate Joshua Weinstein will be presenting his dissertation research, "Evaluating the health and economic consequences of inequitable access to continuous glucose monitoring technology for patients with type 1 diabetes." Watch via zoom or in Rosenau Hall room 101. Contact Valerie Hooker with questions.
Doctoral candidate Hannah Friedman will present her dissertation research, titled "Quality of Care and Hospital Bypass Among Rural Heart Failure Patients." Rosenau Hall 230 or via Zoom.
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 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 to know more about the issues and concerns military connected students face and to identify individuals available to assist this population. Upon completion, participants will... 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... 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,... Read more »
Complex problems need complexity-aware methods. Systems thinking, one such method, is a structured approach to learning about complex problems that engages diverse perspectives in developing visual representations of emerging understanding... Read more »
Dr. Marcella Boynton is currently an assistant professor in the UNC Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, School of Medicine and a biostatistician at UNC NC TraCS Institute where... Read more »
HPM PhD candidate, Maria Stevens, will present her dissertation research, titled, "The influence of vulnerability on the treatment and outcomes for opioid use disorder among people who present to the emergency department with an opioid-related diagnosis."
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 Appreciation Day) There are several other opportunities for UNC-Chapel Hill community members to obtain a flu vaccination on campus: Student Stores Pharmacy - Offers no-appointment flu... 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 »
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... 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... 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... 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 »
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... Read more »
HPM PhD candidate, Prajwol Nepal, will present his dissertation research, titled, "Non-prescription antibiotics use among children in Nepal: Evidence and interventions in community settings." Contact Valerie Hooker with questions.
The HPM curriculum includes a combination of courses in public health and health policy and management, a summer internship, elective courses (including senior honors thesis and graduate-level options), and a year-long capstone experience. The curriculum emphasizes collaboration and application through multiple semester and year-long team projects, some with community partners. Students go through the program... Read more »
PhD candidate in the Health Policy and Management Department, Xuejun (Eleanor) Liu will present her dissertation research, titled "Colorectal cancer: New screening technology, treatment patterns and medical cost." To join, visit the zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97748689278 To attend in person, go to 3005 Michael Hooker Research Center. Contact Valerie Hooker with questions.
Doctoral candidate, Isabella Alder Guynn, will present her dissertation research, titled "Understanding the adaptation of evidence-based interventions from a systems perspective: Integrating implementation and systems science to guide the scaling of a community health worker program." Contact Valerie Hooker with questions.
