Suicide Prevention for Autistic Individuals: The Important Role of Stakeholder Engagement

Suicide Prevention for Autistic Individuals: The Important Role of Stakeholder Engagement with Brenna Maddox, PhD Department of Psychiatry Time: Sep 15, 2021 11:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. Eastern Time As the implementation scientist at the UNC TEACCH Autism Program, Dr. Maddox's work focuses on improving community services for people on the autism spectrum across the... Read more »

Wellness Wednesday: Mental Health Awareness

At one time or another, everyone experiences symptoms of mental illness. Too frequently the response to such symptoms in the workplace is confusion, fear, judgment, avoidance and outright rejection. This leads to a worsening of symptoms and a deterioration of performance. This training is designed to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness and to... Read more »

A Hundred Thousand Atoms Walk into 1 Bar at 300 K – Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Desalination Membranes

All are invited to the weekly ESE In-House Seminar Series on September 15, 2021, at 12:20 p.m. with doctoral student Riley Vickers presenting “A Hundred Thousand Atoms Walk into 1 Bar at 300 K - Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Desalination.” The series asks speakers to tailor their presentations for a general audience so that all... Read more »

Event Series Introduction to Focus Groups

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 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 »

Gillings Wind Down Wednesday: Mental Fitness

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 Dean for Student Affairs- Charletta Sims Evans to coach current students on keeping your stress and anxiety low during the semester. Please register and select... Read more »

Nutrition for a Healthy Brain

Celebrate Healthy Aging month with Gillings Culture of Health at a lunch and learn on Nutrition for a Healthy Brain! Learn about eating to support a healthy brain (and gut... Read more »

Event Series Introduction to Focus Groups

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 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 »

Text Analysis Using R

This course explains how to clean and analyze textual data using R, including both raw and structured texts. It will cover multiple hands-on approaches to getting data into R and... Read more »

Event Series Gentle Yoga

Gentle Yoga

Join the Gillings School's Culture of Health for 30-minute gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays - noon (30 minutes) Please contact rcerny@email.unc.edu if you would like to join a class.

Carolina Consortium on Human Development – Dr. Clare Harrop

Please join Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute this Fall for their series: “Carolina Consortium on Human Development: New Faces and New Directions.” See their website for the full list of speakers and dates. Dr. Clare Harrop will kick-off the series on Monday, Sept. 20 from 2-3:00 p.m. via zoom with her presentation, “Sex Differences... Read more »

SYNCH 2021: The National Conference for HIV, HCV, STI and LGBT Health

The 8th annual Synchronicity conference offers engaging talks from leaders in HIV, HCV, and STI prevention and care. Group rates are available as are scholarships for students. Continuing education units are available. Registration rates are as follows: Individual $90 Partner Organizations $75 per person Group (Five or more) $65 per person Poster Author $50 per... Read more »

SYNCH 2021: The National Conference for HIV, HCV, STI and LGBT Health

The 8th annual Synchronicity conference offers engaging talks from leaders in HIV, HCV, and STI prevention and care. Group rates are available as are scholarships for students. Continuing education units are available. Registration rates are as follows: Individual $90 Partner Organizations $75 per person Group (Five or more) $65 per person Poster Author $50 per... Read more »

Wellness Wednesday: Unconscious Bias

We all hold biases we aren’t aware of. Many of these biases are necessary to make quick decisions as we go about our day—which street to avoid when driving or walking, what to do when we see an animal on a hike, what financial institution to bank with. While these biases aid us in making... Read more »

Eating for Two: Mother’s Diet as an Intervention for Inorganic Arsenic-Associated Lower Birth Weight

All are invited to the weekly ESE In-House Seminar Series on Sept. 22, 2021, at 12:20 p.m. with doctoral student Jeliyah Clark presenting “Eating for Two: Mother’s Diet as an Intervention for Inorganic Arsenic-Associated Lower Birth Weight.” The series asks speakers to tailor their presentations for a general audience so that all participants benefit. For... Read more »

Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling

Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a general statistical method that can be employed to test theoretically derived models. In this introductory short course, we cover the fundamental concepts and skills to conduct SEM using R/lavaan and Mplus. Registration required.

Clear communication of race and ethnicity for public health: Best practices & common failings

Interested in improving the precision of communicating about race/ethnicity in publication? Join a team of interdisciplinary student researchers presenting a pre-conference workshop before the annual International Association of Population Health Science meeting. The workshop is open to non-conference members or attendees. Gillings students and faculty are encouraged to attend so that collectively we can improve... Read more »

Be Proactive Rather than Reactive and Conquer Your Semester

UNC Gillings Student Success Seminars focus on empowering all of our students to succeed in navigating the university environment.  We plan the seminars with the overall goal of equipping students to achieve their academic and personal goals by offering sessions geared toward enhanced learning (e.g. research talks), sessions on interpersonal development, personal responsibility, professional development, leadership,... Read more »

UNC ISPOR Presents: Past Presidents Panel

Get to know more about the UNC student chapter of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) and the past presidents' journeys through UNC to their current role in Health Economics and Outcomes Research. A Q&A session will follow. Watch online. Contact Anna Li with questions.