Asia Maselko, ScD, Associate Professor Epidemiology at the Gillings School, will present a seminar titled, "Maternal Mental Health, the Social Context, and Child Development: The Promise and Limitations of Maternal Depression... Read more »
Rosalind Wright, PhD, will present a seminar titled, "Complexities of Elucidating Prenatal Stress Effects on Child Health." This seminar will (1) Review the general stress-health paradigm; (2) Consider independent stress effects in a lifecourse framework; (3) Review epidemiologic evidence linking early life stress to respiratory and neurodevelopmental disease programming; (4) Examine chemical x social stress... Read more »
Michele R. Forman, PhD, FACE, is a distinguished professor and the department head in the Department of Nutrition Science at Purdue University — and an accomplished graduate of the UNC Gillings epidemiology department! She will give a talk titled, "Facing obesity and other co-morbidity in mothers and their offspring: a life course approach." This seminar... Read more »
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 Besser, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. For more information, including details on parking and the post-Commencement reception, please see the official... Read more »
Join the Department of Maternal and Child Health for a job talk titled, "Risk and protective factors in child health and development" presented by Anna Austin, PhD. Dr. Austin is... Read more »
