Elsevier Town Hall Meeting Dates The University Libraries is now in renewal negotiations with Elsevier, the world’s largest publisher of scholarly journals. The contract expires on December 31. The University seeks an agreement that is affordable and sustainable and that is consistent with both Faculty Council Resolution 2019-8 and the University’s open access policy. You... Read more »
UNC's Health Care for All and the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) are cohosting a lunch-and-learn on November 15 at 12:00 p.m. in Bondurant G100 with Dr. Jon Oberlander, Professor... Read more »
Health Policy and Management doctoral candidate, JC Salgado Hernandez will defend his dissertation, "Simulation of alternative tax policies for sugar-sweetened beverages: Consumer and producer outcomes in Mexico."
The Gillings Student Government Association will be hosting its first online forum for MPH@UNC students on Tuesday, Dec. 10 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. EST. (Zoom meeting ID: 361-454-4240). Find the Zoom... Read more »
You are warmly invited to take a break from finals to attend the dissertation defense of MD/PhD candidate, Alex Gertner. His dissertation is titled, "Quality and access of buprenorphine treatment... Read more »
The Cook Ross Everyday Bias Training will be facilitated by Kauline Cipriani, PhD, assistant dean for inclusive excellence. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of unconscious bias and how unconscious... Read more »
This is a hands-on introductory workshop. Participants will create a basic survey, add display and skip logic, and use content validation, piped text, and embedded data. We will create a... Read more »
The Minority Student Caucus will hold an interest meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 15 in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Auditorium from 5-6 p.m. Please contact minoritystudentcaucus@gmail.com with any questions.
Although graduate school teaches you many things, many Ph.D. students complete their dissertations having never been fully trained in academic publishing. How does academic publishing actually work? Where should you... Read more »
Focus group interviews are commonly used for survey development, content development, and qualitative data collection to capture rich information about attitudes and beliefs that affect behavior. An overview of the... Read more »
The Carolina Center for Public Service and other partners are hosting the Connect, Engage, Transform: Rural Community Partnerships conference to bring together stakeholders from North Carolina’s rural communities and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to highlight and encourage authentic, effective and sustainable collaborations for the public good. The conference will feature keynote... Read more »
This is a 3-part short course (held over three afternoons – 1/27, 1/28, 1/30). Stata part 1 will offer an introduction to Stata basics. Part 2 will teach entering data... Read more »
This is a 3-part short course (held over three afternoons – 1/27, 1/28, 1/30). Stata part 1 will offer an introduction to Stata basics. Part 2 will teach entering data in Stata, working with Stata do files, and will show how to append, sort and merge data sets. Part 3 will cover how to perform... Read more »
This 2-day (1/29 & 1/31) course equips students to design, conduct, and critique mixed-method research. From a pragmatic perspective, we will explore the strengths and weaknesses of a variety of data collection methods, and evaluate strategies for combining them. We will focus on mixed-method research designs incorporating in-depth interviews, focus groups, participant observation, archival research,... Read more »
As part of Health Policy & Management's PhD Visiting Scholar Program, David Chambers, DPhil, Deputy Director for Implementation Science in the Office of the Director in the Division of Cancer... Read more »
