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Inclusive Excellence Zoomtable Conversation: Supporting the Antiracist Work and Needs of BIPOC Students, Faculty and Staff at Gillings

Supporting the Antiracist Work and Needs of BIPOC Students, Faculty and Staff at Gillings This roundtable-style conversation was created to provide a space for BIPOC students, faculty, and staff at Gillings to: - Prioritize and share BIPOC-centered needs surrounding diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism (DEIA) at Gillings, UNC, and beyond. - Identify ways to relieve... Read more »

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Advancing Health Equity Solutions at UNC

Join us during University Research Week as we honor Carmen Samuel-Hodge, RD, PhD, the inaugural winner of the Gillings Health Equity Faculty Research Award. This award recognizes faculty who demonstrate excellence in research that has made a substantial impact on improved equitable outcomes or sustained reduction in inequities in a pressing public health issue. This... Read more »

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UNC Researchers Collaborate to Deliver Solutions and Bring Hope

Join Tar Heels Together for University Research Week’s capstone event, featuring a lively panel discussion on Carolina’s sustained, holistic response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Presenting an all-star panel of frontline research experts, the conversation will be moderated by renowned viral immunologist and Tar Heel alumna Kizzmekia Corbett ’14 (PhD), who is currently leading a team at... Read more »

How to Be an Antiracist: A Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi

Ibram X. Kendi will join an audience live on Zoom for a moderated discussion of antiracism with UNC School of Social Work faculty members Travis Albritton and Tonya Van Deinse, followed by a Q&A session with questions submitted by audience members via Zoom chat. Note: The host is not permitted to record this event for... Read more »

Virtual Safe Zone Training

The Standard Safe Zone is designed to introduce concepts, terminology and resources related to sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression. Registration required. Flyer Contact chrisana@live.unc.edu

Cultural Industry, Techno-capitalism and Labor: The Mediated Exploitation of Black and Brown Bodies

The Race, Racism, and Racial Equity (R3) Symposium, hosted by the University Office for Diversity and Inclusion, is a series of virtual events that brings together scholars and researchers from across campus to share their work with Carolina and the broader community. The second in the R3 series, “Cultural Industry, Techno-capitalism, and Labor: The Mediated... Read more »

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Black. Male. Scientist. Claiming space and place in research

Hosts: Deborah Stroman, PhD – Department of Health Behavior/EQUITY UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health – Inclusive Excellence Registration required. Speakers: Joseph N. Cooper, PhD, University of Massachusetts – Boston J. Keith Motley Endowed Chair of Sport Leadership and Administration Author, A Legacy of African American Resistance and Activism Through Sport (forthcoming) Joseph N.... Read more »

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Navigating Challenging Student Situations Webinar

Supporting students in difficult situations can be confusing, challenging and time-consuming.  Our students face a variety of issues that are complex. We want to make sure you have the resources to assist you when you are approached by students.  This webinar will allow faculty and staff to engage and practice with colleagues on ways to... Read more »

Saving the House We Built: African Americans, Democracy and the Attack on the U.S. Capitol

This lecture qualifies for 2 hours of credit toward the Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirements for faculty and staff. “Saving the House We Built: African Americans, Democracy, and the Attack on the U.S. Capitol” A critical conversation about African Americans, democracy and the attack on the U.S. Capitol. This event will feature presentations by... Read more »

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The Long and Winding Road: My Journey as a Health Disparities Researcher

The Long and Winding Road My Journey as a Health Disparities Researcher Feb. 4 6-7:30 p.m. (Networking from 6-6:30 p.m., Lecture from 6:30-7:30 p.m.)   Ronny Bell, PhD Professor of Social Sciences and Health Policy Associate Director of Community Outreach and Engagement, Wake Forest School of Medicine Director, Office of Cancer Health Equity, Wake Forest... Read more »

Dr. Barbara Rogoff presents Learning as a Cultural Process: Insights from Mayan Families

The Carolina Consortium on Human Development is pleased to welcome Dr. Barbara Rogoff as the next presenter in their Spring 2021 Series on Culture & Developmental Science: Considering Context, Culture and Intersectional Approaches. On Feb. 8 at 2-3:15 p.m., Dr. Barbara Rogoff will present "Learning as a Cultural Process: Insights from Mayan Families." This lecture... Read more »

Henry Louis Gates Jr.: The Legacy of Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow

In case you missed it, watch the webinar recording. This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School faculty and staff inclusive excellence training requirements. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy... Read more »

Structures of Inequality: Moving Forward on the Rural-Urban Divide and Access to Health Care

This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School faculty and staff inclusive excellence training requirement. In the fall, Honors Carolina kicked off an ongoing examination of systems of inequality with a series of programs on structural racism. This semester, they will turn attention to related questions of bias and discrimination.... Read more »

Black Parent Voices – Resilience in the Face of the Two Pandemics: COVID-19 and Racism

This event qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the Gillings School's inclusive excellence training requirements for faculty and staff. Join the Equity Research Action Coalition for the upcoming meeting “Black Parent Voices - Resilience in the Face of the Two Pandemics: COVID-19 and Racism.” Iheoma U. Iruka and Stephanie M. Curenton, co-founders of Researchers... Read more »