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 of public health and highlight issues that are important to improving our nation. APHA creates new NPHW materials each year that can be used during... Read more »
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 »
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 give a presentation titled “Metabolically Healthy Obesity: Resilience or Just a Matter of Time?” Registration is required at https://go.unc.edu/nutrseminars
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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 »
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... Read more »
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:... Read more »
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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 "Food and Nutrition Security in the Era of Sustainability: Evidence From the MENA Region.” Learn more and register.
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 »
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 »
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 »
The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) Program will hold an in-person symposium on Monday, April 18 from 1 – 3 p.m. in the Blue Cross... Read more »
