Caregiver Training on HIV-Exposed Child Neurodevelopment Talk

G100 Bondurant Hall 321 South Columbia St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Michael Boivin, PhD, MPH, professor psychiatry, neurology and ophthalmology and director of the psychiatry research program at Michigan State University, will present a talk titled "Effects of Caregiver Training on... Read more »

Event Series Activity: Just Walk!

Activity: Just Walk!

Entrance, McGavran-Greenberg Hall (Pittsboro St. side) McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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.... Read more »

Conducting Research with Latinx Participants Seminar

219 Brinkhous-Bullitt Building Brinkhous-Bullitt Building, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

How do we know what we are measuring when we have instruments developed in English for English speakers translated into Spanish? Are we measuring the same constructs in Latinx communities? How does... Read more »

RD Day Appreciation Booth

Armfield Atrium, Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Please join Nutrition Coalition to make thank-you cards for the RDs and nutrition educators at the Gillings School. This event is sponsored by Nutrition Coalition. Please contact nutritioncoalitionunc@gmail.com.

Event Series Activity: Yoga

Activity: Yoga

0003/0004 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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... Read more »

Early Childhood Development in Rural China Talk

4003 FedEx Global Education Center

Sean Sylvia, assistant professor in the department of health policy and management, will present a talk titled "Early Childhood Development in Rural China: Evidence from the Qinling Cohort Study." Food... Read more »

Career Panel

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Auditorium (0001 Michael Hooker Research Center) Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The UNC-CH student chapter of the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology (SISPE) and the Graduate and Professional Student Federation will be hosting a career panel inviting a diverse group of panelists... Read more »

Event Series Activity: Yoga

Activity: Yoga

0003/0004 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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... Read more »

Survey Design Course

This Odum Institue course focuses on best practices for writing questions and visual design for surveys, with a focus on holistic designs in which question wording and visual design work... Read more »

Seminar with Dr. Alex Rowe of the CDC

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Auditorium (0001 Michael Hooker Research Center) Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Dr. Alex Rowe, medical epidemiologist and chief of the Strategic & Applied Science Unit in the Malaria Branch of the CDC will present a talk entitled "Effectiveness of strategies to... Read more »

BIOS Seminar: L0-Based Sparse Regression Method

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Auditorium (0001 Michael Hooker Research Center) Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Gang Li, PhD, professor of biostatistics and biomathematics at UCLA, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled "A Scalable L0-Based Sparse Regression Method for Large-Scale Competing Risks Data." Abstract: This paper develops... Read more »

Achieving Health Equity with Dr. Cara V. James

133 Rosenau Hall (Joan Heckler Gillings Auditorium) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Cara V. James, PhD, director of the Office of Minority Health at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will present a talk titled "Achieving Health Equity through Increased Understanding,... Read more »

National Public Health Week

Celebrate National Public Health Week with UNC Gillings! Check out our website to discover all the ways we are celebrating. gillingsNPHW.web.unc.edu

Inclusive Excellence Training: Safe Zone

2301 McGavran-Greenberg Hall McGavran-Greenberg Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Safe Zone is a program designed to create a network of visible allies to people who identify as part of the diverse LGBTIQA+ community. The four-hour educational session provides information and resources related to... Read more »