Farm to Correctional Facility
Join Gillings MPH/RD students as they host experts from different areas of the food system as part of the inaugural Farm to Institution Speaker Series, held under the Food for... Read more »
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Entrepreneurship Panel: A Virtual Discussion with Entrepreneurs of Color at the Gillings School
What are the structural and systemic barriers experienced by entrepreneurs of color? Join a panel of Gillings School alumni and faculty entrepreneurs on April 1 to learn more about their... Read more »
National Public Health Week: Building Bridges to Better Health
During the first full week of April each year, APHA brings together communities across the United States to observe National Public Health Week as a time to recognize the contributions... Read more »
From Awareness to Action: Confronting Weight Stigma to Promote Public Health
The Department of Nutrition is excited to share the inaugural Weight Stigma Awareness Series! Nutrition students and faculty curated this two-part event to increase awareness of weight stigma and lay... Read more »
Global Food Systems and Sustainable Nutrition in the 21st Century
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 8:00am to 5:30pm EST This event will be held virtually. All are welcome. The NORCH is pleased to announce the topic for this year’s symposium: Global... Read more »
Metabolically Healthy Obesity: Resilience or Just a Matter of Time?
Dept of Nutrition Seminar: "Metabolically Healthy Obesity: Resilience or Just a Matter of Time?" Dr. Morgana Mongraw-Chaffin, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Prevention at Wake Forest School of Medicine, will... Read more »
Nutrition for a Healthy Brain
Celebrate Healthy Aging month with Gillings Culture of Health at a lunch and learn on Nutrition for a Healthy Brain! Learn about eating to support a healthy brain (and gut brain), decrease inflammation and improve mood and cognition. Take home some simple strategies for healthy aging! Learn more and register. Thursday, September 16, 12:30-1:15pm
Food Insecurity and its Impact on Child Growth and Nutrition
Dr. Colin Orr, assistant professor of general pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine, will give a presentation titled “Food Insecurity and its Impact on Child Growth and Nutrition.” Registration is required.
It’s About More Than Effectiveness: Optimization of Behavioral and Biobehavioral Interventions
Dr. Linda M. Collins, Professor of Global Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New York University, will give a seminar titled “It’s About More Than Effectiveness: Optimization of... Read more »
Undergraduate Research with the Nutrition Research Institute
Dr. Susan Sumner from the UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI), professors from her laboratory team, and undergraduate researchers from her lab will share the unique opportunities available for undergraduate students at the NRI. Learn more and view the session. This event is part of University Research Week.
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Health of Our State and Beyond Series: Obesity
Leveraging the strengths of Carolina’s schools of public health and medicine, its affiliated research centers and institutes, and its prowess in big data management, the Heterogeneity in Obesity Creativity Hub: Transdisciplinary Approaches for Precision Research and Treatment is a large, collaborative project with 27 faculty from 16 departments, six schools and five centers and institutes.... Read more »
Virtual Cook Along with Dr. Alice Ammerman
The Department of Nutrition invites you to join Professor Alice Ammerman, DrPH, ’90, MPH ’82, as she accepts the Nutrition Distinguished Alumni Award with a virtual cook along and research update on Thursday, Nov. 11. She will be demonstrating a recipe from her Med-South diet: a dietary pattern designed and rigorously tested by Ammerman and... Read more »
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Gillings Practice StakehoIder Session for Students
Gillings students, as part of schoolwide strategic planning, the Gillings School has convened a Practice Task Force, and we need to hear from you! We are seeking your thoughts and ideas on what practice at Gillings should look like in 2028. How can we achieve the greatest impact? What opportunities are we missing? How can... Read more »
Food and Nutrition Security in the Era of Sustainability: Evidence From the MENA Region
As part of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center's Enrichment Program, Dr. Lamis Jomaa, associate professor of nutrition and food sciences at American University of Beirut, will give a seminar titled... Read more »
Nutrition 75th Anniversary Speaker Series: Dr. Mercedes Carnethon
Please join the Department of Nutrition for a lecture with Mercedes Carnethon, PhD, ('00 epidemiology), vice-chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Mary Harris Thompson Professor of Preventive Medicine... Read more »
Dietary n3-PUFAs Modulate the Pulmonary Response to Environmental Exposures
Kymberly Gowdy, MS, PhD, associate professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, will present “Dietary n3-PUFAs Modulate the Pulmonary Response to Environmental Exposures” Co-sponsored by the UNC NORC and the UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility Friday, Feb. 25 @ 2 p.m.... Read more »
NORC Student Research Competition
The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center invites submission of abstracts from undergraduate and graduate students currently working in the lab or research group of a current UNC NORC member. Four... Read more »