Students, faculty and staff are invited to join the Culture of Health team for free yoga classes. Beginners are welcome and mats are provided!
All Gillings School students, faculty and staff are invited to join this Culture of Health activity for a half-hour of calm breathing and mind decluttering. Come when you can and as you are. Please contact Penny Slade-Sawyer, mps3@email.unc.edu, if you have any questions. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule... Read more »
Join colleagues for a quick walk around the neighborhood. Meet at the Pittsboro Street entrance of McGavran-Greenberg Hall for this fun Culture of Health exercise opportunity. Bad weather? No problem. Leader Penny Slade-Sawyer will find an indoor route! Contact Penny with any questions at mps3@email.unc.edu. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health.... Read more »
Join the EQUITY Concentration of Gillings MPH for a discussion with Dr. Paula Barreto, Professor of Sociology from Univ Federal da Bahia. Dr. Barreto will present a seminar titled "An International Perspective of Racial Inequality and Discrimination: Recent Challenges in Brazil." Please contact Courtney Woods with any questions.
Please save the date for the 3rd Annual Cancer Prevention and Control Debate, “The Role of Precision Prevention in Reducing Breast Cancer Mortality.” This debate is hosted by Melissa Troester (UNC) and Mark Sherman (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine), with an expert panel to also include Michele Cote (Wayne State University School of Medicine). This... Read more »
Barbara Turpin, professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, will present this week’s seminar in the department’s Spring 2019 series. Turpin’s talk is titled, “Water-Soluble Organic Gases and Their Influence on Chemistry in Diverse Environments." Abstract Water is the most abundant condensed phase species in the atmosphere (including in aerosols). It has a... Read more »
Students, faculty and staff are invited to join the Culture of Health team for free yoga classes. Beginners are welcome and mats are provided! Please contact Penny Slade-Sawyer, mps3@email.unc.edu, if you have any questions. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule one-one-one wellness appointments, find health recipes and see all... Read more »
Actors from PlayMakers Repertory Company, under the direction of Kathy Williams, will tell the story of a one-month strike by food service workers at UNC-Chapel Hill that began February 23, 1969. The strike, which drew the support of the Black Student Movement and other allies, was a key moment in the history of labor and... Read more »
Students, faculty and staff are invited to join the Culture of Health team for free yoga classes. Beginners are welcome and mats are provided! Please contact Penny Slade-Sawyer, mps3@email.unc.edu, if you have any questions. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule one-one-one wellness appointments, find health recipes and see all... Read more »
Myriam Peereboom, UNC Health Care, MBA/MHA, CMI, CHITM, is the Education Specialist for UNC Hospitals’ Interpreter Services department where she has worked in different roles over 20 years. She has earned both of the National Medical Interpreter certifications in the U.S. (CMI - Certified Medical Interpreter and CHI - Certified Healthcare Interpreter) and now guides... Read more »
Please join the UNC Lineberger Cancer Control Education Program for the Michael O'Malley Lecture, "Use of Integrated Pre-clinical and Clinical Models in Early Phase Breast Cancer Prevention Trials", given by Carol Fabian, MD. Carol Fabian, MD, is director of the Breast Cancer Prevention Center and university distinguished professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at The University of... Read more »
Nancy Zhang, PhD, professor of statistics at the University of Pennsylvania, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled "Transfer Learning in Single Cell Transcriptomics." Abstract: Cells are the basic biological... Read more »
Join the Student Global Health Committee for a screening of Pollution - A Global Public Health Crisis. Following the film, speakers will include Elena Rue of Storymine Media, Dr. Jason Surratt, and Dr. William Vizuete.
The Gillings School will host a reception in Washington, D.C. during ASPPH. Join alumni, current and admitted students, faculty and staff for a casual reception during the annual meeting of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) in Washington, D.C. This event is open to all, ASPPH attendees and non-attendees alike. Admission... Read more »
The Gillings AV Services office would like to invite you or your department to the remaining Zoom training opportunities for the semester. Feel free to bring your lunch and your device to join us for one or more workshops for an overview of the campus' ZOOM remote conferencing tool. Participants will learn basic meeting functions... Read more »
Join the Gillings Student Government Association and Research, Innovation and Global Solutions office in celebrating our School's wonderful student research! Food will be provided. ORAL PRESENTATIONS | 1:00-2:30 PM Daria Igudesman, Doctoral Student, "Does Intensification of Insulin Therapy lead to Increased Body Fat Among Youth and Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)?" Jinglin Ji, Undergraduate... Read more »
