In the face of increasing awareness of the need to capture the diversity of human experience, there has also been increasing concern to study and describe populations from a critical and equitable perspective. As science is itself a cultural practice, and knowledge production can perpetuate social inequalities prevalent in social systems, many times, as scholars... Read more »
This three-day (2/21, 2/23 and 2/25) course introduces students to Stata and data management. It is tailored for beginners and researchers who want to learn how to manage data more... Read more »
All are invited to the weekly ESE In-House Seminar Series which continues on Feb. 23 at 12:20 p.m. with Surendra Kunwar presenting “Signal vs Noise: Quantifying the Signal of Climate Change on US PM2.5 Air Quality in the 2050s amid Noise from Climate Variability”. The series asks speakers to tailor their presentations for a general... Read more »
Join the UNC Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) for Precision Medicine Approaches to Addressing COVID-19, a free virtual mini-symposium from 1-3:00 pm on Wednesday, Feb. 23. Presenters will explore how data has informed our response to the COVID-19 pandemic: the collection, analysis and interpretation of COVID-related data. Registration required.
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute is pleased to welcome Eva Mamak, PhD, CPsych, ABPP-CN, as the presenter of the 2022 Barbara Hanna Wasik Distinguished Lecture. This presentation will seek to address: The nature of neuropsychological assessment in a medical setting; The application of neuropsychological assessment in assessing functional outcomes in underserved populations, e.g. those... Read more »
Join the Gillings School’s Culture of Health for gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays – noon (30 minutes) Starting 2/02/2022: Mondays and Wednesdays – 5:15-6 p.m. (45 minutes-currently virtual) Please contact rcerny@email.unc.edu if you would like to join a class.
This event qualifies for eight hours of credit toward the Gillings School's annual inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. The 43rd Annual Minority Health Conference: Revolutionary Healing and Rebuilding: Learning from Today, Transforming Tomorrow Registration is now open for this year’s virtual two-day Minority Health Conference — Revolutionary Healing and Rebuilding: Learning from Today, Transforming Tomorrow. This... Read more »
Focus groups are commonly used to capture rich information about attitudes and beliefs. This class will prepare prospective students to organize and moderate focus groups. Students will learn the most appropriate uses of focus groups, how to segment and recruit audiences, how to develop a moderator’s guide, and how to moderate focus groups. The class... Read more »
This three-day (2/21, 2/23 and 2/25) course introduces students to Stata and data management. It is tailored for beginners and researchers who want to learn how to manage data more effectively. Each day, the class will demonstrate how to use the commands, followed by hands-on exercises using sample datasets. Learn more and register.
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 »
Join the Gillings School’s Culture of Health for gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays – noon (30 minutes) Starting 2/02/2022: Mondays and Wednesdays – 5:15-6 p.m. (45 minutes-currently virtual) Please contact rcerny@email.unc.edu if you would like to join a class.
This event qualifies for one hour of credit toward the Gillings School's annual inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. The Center for Health Equity Research at UNC will... Read more »
FPG's Carolina Consortium on Human Development is pleased to welcome Dr. Paul Lanier as the next presenter in their Spring 2022 Series. On Monday, February 28th, Dr. Paul Lanier will present Translating the Science of Adverse Childhood Experiences to Policy and Practice in North Carolina. Dr. Lanier is the Wallace Kuralt Distinguished Associate Professor in... Read more »
Join the Gillings School’s Culture of Health for gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays – noon (30 minutes) Starting 2/02/2022: Mondays and Wednesdays – 5:15-6 p.m. (45 minutes-currently virtual) Please contact rcerny@email.unc.edu if you would like to join a class.
This course will teach participants how to use the programming language Julia to load, clean, plot, and analyze social-science data. Julia is a newer programming language with a focus on high-performance scientific computing, and it allows efficient manipulation of large datasets. The course will cover the basics of loading tabular data; cleaning, filtering, and joining... Read more »
