Gillings Blood Drive
The Gillings Student Government Association is hosting a platelet drive as part of National Public Health Week. If interested in donating platelets, please email Julia Nevison to schedule a time.
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Introduction to Focus Groups
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... Read more »
Implementation Science in Global Health: Leveraging the Power of Community
Join NC TraCS and the UNC Center for AIDS Research for the Spring 2021 edition of the Implementation Science Speaker Series, featuring Carolyn Audet, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Policy... Read more »
Centering Race in Health Equity Research and Leadership
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. Wed, April 7 from 1-2 p.m. ET Daphne C. Watkins, PhD University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor and Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan Director, Vivian A. and James L. Curtis Center for... Read more »
Dissertation Defense: Ryan Kandrack
Fourth-year doctoral candidate Ryan Kandrack will defend his dissertation, titled "Promise and performance of primary care vertical integration: Effects on spending, utilization and quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries." The... 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 »
MCH Critical Conversations: Substance Use and Recovery for People Genderized as Women
Let’s have a conversation about what addiction looks like in people socialized as women. What typically co-occurs with substance use? When does substance use become disordered, and what does recovery look like? What policies determine who is allowed to be pregnant or parent while using substances or pursuing recovery? How does discrimination inform institutional and... Read more »
Structures of Inequality: Moving Forward on Deconstructing the Gender Binary
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School faculty and staff inclusive excellence training requirement. In the fall, Honors Carolina kicked off an ongoing examination of systems of inequality with a series of programs on structural racism. This semester, they will turn attention to related questions of bias and discrimination.... Read more »
Wind Down Wednesday – Mental Fitness Series
Wind Down Wednesday is a virtual mental fitness series created to help students to maintain a healthy school-life balance. Join professionals in Public Health and Mental Health invited by Associate... Read more »
3rd Annual Student Research and Entrepreneurship Showcase
Join the Gillings School Student Government Association (SGA) to learn more about students' research and entrepreneurship projects. This event will be all asynchronous and virtual. Students will record a 5-10... Read more »
Introduction to Focus Groups
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... Read more »
CTSA Visiting Scholar Seminar – Therapeutic Advances in Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
Join translational and clinical scientists from across the CTSA Consortium for a presentation by Hanny Al-Samkari, MD describing the revolutionary potential of anti-angiogenic therapy in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) and... Read more »
Towards a unified methodology of study design and statistical analysis for causal inference in implementation science
Dr. Donna Spiegelman has a joint doctorate in biostatistics and epidemiology and her research is motivated by problems that arise in epidemiology and require biostatistical settlement; in part a focus... Read more »
2021 Deil S. Wright Lecture: Preparing People of Color for 21st Century Jobs: Unfulfilled Promises and Lost Opportunities
This lecture qualifies for 2 hours of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. The MPA Alumni Association created this lecture series in... Read more »
Home Environments for Wellness Book Club and Peer Support Pod
Our home environment plays an important role in our overall well-being. Let’s reassess the state of our home environments and create more inspired spaces that support our mental health and... Read more »