Week of Events
Activity: Just Walk!
Activity: Just Walk!
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. The leader will find an indoor route! Please contact Penny Slade-Sawyer with any questions. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule one-one-one... Read more »
Activity: Yoga
Activity: Yoga
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.
Activity: Mindful Relaxation
Activity: Mindful Relaxation
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 with any questions. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule one-one-one wellness appointments, find health... Read more »
DSS Wellness Series: Navigating Conflict
DSS Wellness Series: Navigating Conflict
DSS Wellness Series: Navigating Conflict Monday, October 21 @ 1-2:30 pm Graduate Student Center, 211A West Cameron Ave What do you do when you disagree with your partner, your friend or your advisor? Do you dig your heels in? Do you run away? Do you stop in your tracks? Does it matter if there’s a... Read more »
Activity: Yoga
Activity: Yoga
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.
Digital Accessibility Awareness Training
Digital Accessibility Awareness Training
This training explains the foundations and the basics for digital accessibility. Register now.
Activity: Just Walk!
Activity: Just Walk!
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. The leader will find an indoor route! Please contact Penny Slade-Sawyer with any questions. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule one-one-one... Read more »
Activity: Mindful Relaxation
Activity: Mindful Relaxation
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 with any questions. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule one-one-one wellness appointments, find health... Read more »
Rethinking Graduate Admissions: Managing Implicit Bias and Implementing Holistic Review
Rethinking Graduate Admissions: Managing Implicit Bias and Implementing Holistic Review
This workshop will provide space to engage and explore how to be more thoughtful about who and how we recruit, admit, and retain student cohorts. Implicit bias will be introduced and participants will discuss strategies for minimizing bias during the admissions process. The target audience for this event is faculty and staff involved in the... Read more »
UNC-IntraHealth Summer Fellows Info Session
UNC-IntraHealth Summer Fellows Info Session
Come learn more about this 10-week paid summer fellowship with IntraHealth International just for UNC Gillings graduate students! A representative from IntraHealth will be here to answer all your questions. Program description and applications are now available: https://sph.unc.edu/global-health/ggg-internships-and-funding/. When: Wednesday, October 23 & Friday, October 25 Where: 2005 Michael Hooker Research Center (both days) Time:... Read more »
Gut Microbiota: ENVR 400 In-house Seminar
Gut Microbiota: ENVR 400 In-house Seminar
Liang Chi, a doctoral student in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, will present this week’s seminar in the department’s Fall 2019 series. Dodds’s talk is titled,"How Gut Microbiota Plays a Role in Arsenic Toxicity?" Learn more here. Please contact Dr. Howard Weinberg, howard_weinberg@unc.edu, if you have any questions.
Being Public and Engaging Policy Seminar
Being Public and Engaging Policy Seminar
Academics are increasingly asked to engage with public actors from policymakers to journalists. Rarely, however, are academics given any guidance or strategies for doing so. In this lecture, Dr. Ray will provide strategies for interacting with journalists, policymakers, and bureaucrats. In addition to publishing over 50 books, articles, and book chapters, Ray has given presentations... Read more »
Perinatal Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Seminar
Perinatal Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Seminar
Carolina Seminars will present "Addressing Perinatal Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders through Perinatal Psychiatry Access Programs" as part of the North Carolina Maternal Behavioral Health Collaborative’s Carolina Seminar Series. Presenters: Nancy Byatt, DO, MS, MBA, FACLP (Medical Director of MCPAP for Moms) Tiffany A. Moore Simas, MD, MPH, MEd, FACOG (Director of Engagement of... Read more »
Finding Quality Health Information Library Workshop
Finding Quality Health Information Library Workshop
Are you prone to WebMD rabbit holes when searching for the most accurate, up-to-date health information? Are you interested in researching health literacy or pursuing a career in the health sciences? Hack your health research process with help from librarians! This workshop will introduce valuable tools and for finding and evaluating health information online. Presenter... Read more »
Activity: Yoga
Activity: Yoga
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.
Introduction to Focus Groups
Introduction to Focus Groups
Focus group interviews are commonly used for survey development, content development, and qualitative data collection to capture rich information about attitudes and beliefs that affect behavior. An overview of the basics of focus groups supplemented with real examples and hands-on practice will highlight the most appropriate uses of focus groups, moderating focus groups, developing interview... Read more »
Activity: Yoga
Activity: Yoga
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.
Finding Hope (and a Job) in DC
Finding Hope (and a Job) in DC
Join Jerold Mande for a discussion on federal nutrition policy. Learn about the main "players" in nutrition policy in Washington DC, updates on major nutrition policy initiatives and tips for how to get a federal job and have an outsized impact on public health. Following his talk, Mande will be available at a reception to... Read more »
Biostatistics Seminar: Di Wu, PhD, and Matthew Biggs, PhD
Biostatistics Seminar: Di Wu, PhD, and Matthew Biggs, PhD
Di Wu, PhD Matthew Biggs, PhD The Biostatistics Seminar on October 24, 2019 will be presented by Di Wu, PhD, and Matthew Biggs, PhD, both assistant professors of Biostatistics at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Each presentation will be 30 minutes long on the topics of "Transcriptional gene set tests and microbial... Read more »
Designing For Change: Women In Entrepreneurship
Designing For Change: Women In Entrepreneurship
Attend a design thinking workshop targeting the issues women face in entrepreneurship and the workplace, complete with a panel of 6 young UNC alumnae who will share their personal stories and experiences as females in entrepreneurship. The first half of the workshop will focus on discussing issues women face in entrepreneurship with the alumnae panel.... Read more »
Department of Health Policy and Management Executive Master’s Program 50th Anniversary
Department of Health Policy and Management Executive Master’s Program 50th Anniversary
In honor of the Department of Health Policy and Management's Executive Master's Program 50th Anniversary, we are hosting a symposium featuring Professor Emeritus Bill Zelman as the keynote speaker, with lunch and a panel discussion starting at 11:30 a.m. “I am today allocating $3,000 State Appropriations to match the Federal Grant obtained for developing the... Read more »
CPC Seminar: Machine Learning
CPC Seminar: Machine Learning
Jennie Brand will present “Uncovering Treatment Effect Heterogeneity using Machine Learning” as part of the Carolina Population Series 2019-2010 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. Jennie E. Brand is Professor of Sociology and Statistics. She is also Director of the California Center for Population Research and Co-Director of the Center for Social Statistics (CSS). Prof. Brand studies... Read more »
UNC-IntraHealth Summer Fellows Info Session
UNC-IntraHealth Summer Fellows Info Session
Come learn more about this 10-week paid summer fellowship with IntraHealth International just for UNC Gillings graduate students! A representative from IntraHealth will be here to answer all your questions. Program description and applications are now available: https://sph.unc.edu/global-health/ggg-internships-and-funding/. When: Wednesday, October 23 & Friday, October 25 Where: 2005 Michael Hooker Research Center (both days) Time:... Read more »
Schoolwide Homecoming Brunch
Schoolwide Homecoming Brunch
Join Gillings School alumni and gather with friends and family, students, faculty and staff for brunch during UNC's alumni homecoming weekend. Bring the whole family and enjoy a casual event with food, games, activities, music and prizes. Admission is free. Please register online. Contact alumni.sph@unc.edu for more information.