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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Flourish is a SHAC program that helps others find health where they are planted. With the goal of promoting nutrition and healthy lifestyles both in the community and on campus, Flourish is involved in grocery store tours, cooking with kids and for shelters, tabling at SHAC, and organizing on campus events, and much more! The... Read more »

Alex Gertner, MD/PhD candidate in the Department of Health Policy and Management and Injury and Violence Prevention Fellow at the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center, will present a talk titled "Did Medicaid Expansion Increase Use of Opioid Agonist Treatments for Opioid Use Disorder?" Abstract: Opioid agonist treatment (OAT) for opioid use disorder reduces the risk... Read more »

Lisa Smeester, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, will present the second seminar in the department’s Spring 2019 series. Smeester’s talk is titled, “Inorganic arsenic and immune dysfunction: a cross-sectional study of children in Mexico.” Learn more here. Please contact Dr. Howard Weinberg, howard_weinberg@unc.edu, if you have any questions.

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 »

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 »

Dr. Emanuel Robinson of Westat will be the keynote speaker for the 2019 Patricia F. Waller Lecture, an annual lecture honoring the legacy of Dr. Patricia Waller, the founding Director of the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center. Dr. Robinson will present a lecture entitled, "Information Systems in Motor Vehicles: How Much Tech is Too Much?”... Read more »

Andrew Gordon Wilson, PhD, assistant professor at Cornell University, will present a seminar titled "Uncertainty, Loss Valleys, and Generalization in Deep Learning." Abstract: In this talk, we approach model construction from a probabilistic perspective. First, we introduce a scalable Gaussian process framework capable of learning expressive kernel functions on large datasets, implemented in our new... Read more »

Does your image match your professional goals? Join us to learn how to make an impact with your style in interviews, internships, careers and networking events. This workshop is for men and women to visually show you how to make the right statement for your career. Co-facilitated by Dustin Byrd, entrepreneur and personal stylist with Knot... Read more »

Join the Department of Health Policy and Management for the 5th Annual Women in Healthcare Leadership Symposium: Partners in Progress. The keynote speaker, Gina Cronin, a Gillings School of Global Public Health alumna, will speak about her work as executive director of the Global Leadership & Learning Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. There will be... 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 »

Joe Brown, PhD PE, will present a seminar entitled "The Maputo Sanitation (MapSan) Trial: Measuring Health Impacts of Urban Sanitation Improvements." Joe Brown, PhD PE, is an environmental engineer who studies water and santitation in the context of global public health. His research uses tools of environemntal health microbiology, risk assessment, and epidemiology to measure... Read more »

The UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility and the Cancer Epidemiology Seminar Series will offer a seminar titled "Trace Metals, Epigenomics and Susceptibility to Liver Cancer." The seminar will be led by Cathrine Hoyo, PhD, from North Carolina State University. Dr. Hoyo is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences... Read more »