Wellness Wednesday: Suicide Awareness
This course will discuss why suicide occurs, the risk factors associated with it and how to intervene with those who are at risk. Employees register online. Students email totalwellbeing@unc.edu
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“Well” here we are: How I became a Water Wizard
1301 McGavran-Greenberg Hall (Michel A. Ibrahim Seminar Room) McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAll are invited to the weekly ESE In-House Seminar Series which begins in person on September 8 at 12:20 p.m. with Dr. Crystal Lee Pow Jackson presenting “'Well' here we... Read more »
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The Many Faces of Environmental (In)Justice: Scholarship Addressing Racism, Infrastructure and Climate Action
This event qualifies for 1.5 credit hours toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirements for faculty and staff. Environmental racism takes many forms, from higher rates of pollution... Read more »
Public Health Resume Tips & Tricks
Get tips and tricks for resume writing. Registration is required on Handshake.
Preserving Life: Climate Change, Water and Diplomacy
Nelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Education Center 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThe American Academy of Diplomacy (AAD), in collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will host its annual Joseph J. Sisco Memorial Forum in person in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium on Carolina’s campus at 6 p.m. EDT on Sept. 9, 2021. The event... Read more »
Gillings International Student Support Pod – First Meeting of Fall 2021
We provide a platform to help international students figure out ways to navigate some of the challenges of being an international student at Gillings, offering emotional and mental support as... Read more »
Gillings International Student Support Pod
The purpose of the Gillings International Student Support Pod is to provide a platform to help international students figure out ways to navigate some of the challenges of being an... Read more »
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2021 Gillings Virtual Career Summit
2021 Gillings Virtual Career Summit
Mark your calendars and register for the 2021 Gillings Virtual Career Summit on two days Aug. 27 and Sept. 10 from 12:30 – 5 p.m. This virtual conference will give... Read more »
Metabolically Healthy Obesity: Resilience or Just a Matter of Time?
Dept of Nutrition Seminar: "Metabolically Healthy Obesity: Resilience or Just a Matter of Time?" Dr. Morgana Mongraw-Chaffin, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Prevention at Wake Forest School of Medicine, will... Read more »
Gillings Walking Group
Gillings Walking Group Meet at Pittsboro St. entrance to McGavran-Greenberg Hall. Mondays at 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays at 10 a.m.
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... Read more »
Climate Change, Health & Hope
Dr. Howard Frumkinis an internist, environmental and occupational medicine specialist and epidemiologist. He will discuss the health impacts of the global climate crisis, as well as hope as a positive influence on human health and response to these challenges. He has served as Dean of the University of Washington School of Public Health, led the... Read more »
Informational Meeting: Governmental Public Health Student Chapter
Are you interested in governmental public health practice? We are starting a Student Chapter of the National Association of County and Health Officials and invite you to an informational meeting. This chapter will help you: • connect with resources (best practices, webinars, publications, internships/jobs). • network with health departments. • connect internally to discuss governmental... Read more »
Home Environments Book Club & Peer Support Pod
Mondays 6:45-7:30 p.m. starting August 23 Are you needing to "reboot" your home environment? Declutter? Create calm amidst chaos? Carve out a niche for work, hobbies or a place to rejuvenate? Join our support pod for 45 minutes each Monday to learn more about creating home environments for wellness and support each other as we... Read more »
Gillings Walking Group
Gillings Walking Group Meet at Pittsboro St. entrance to McGavran-Greenberg Hall. Mondays at 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays at 10 a.m.
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Community Conversation with Inclusive Excellence
We invite you all to join us for a schoolwide discussion about the Inclusive Excellence Action Plan and the ongoing inclusive excellence work happening across Gillings. If you are not... Read more »
Gillings Black Student Support Pod
The Gillings Black Student Support Pod was created to support the success of current, matriculated black students in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. This support pod is ONLY for students... Read more »
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... 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... 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... 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 »
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... 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 »
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 »
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National Health Equity Research Webcast
This event qualifies for 1.5 hours of credit toward the Gillings School's annual inclusive excellence training requirements for faculty and staff. 27TH NATIONAL HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH WEBCAST (NHERW) THIS IS... Read more »
Gillings Walking Group
Gillings Walking Group Meet at Pittsboro St. entrance to McGavran-Greenberg Hall. Mondays at 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays at 10 a.m.
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.
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Maternal and Child Health Center Open House
Come learn about the centers in the Department of Maternal and Child Health and all that they are doing to help parents, children and families. View the Open House online.... Read more »
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... Read more »
Home Environments Book Club & Peer Support Pod
Mondays 6:45-7:30 p.m. starting August 23 Are you needing to "reboot" your home environment? Declutter? Create calm amidst chaos? Carve out a niche for work, hobbies or a place to rejuvenate? Join our support pod for 45 minutes each Monday to learn more about creating home environments for wellness and support each other as we... 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 »
Gillings Walking Group
Gillings Walking Group Meet at Pittsboro St. entrance to McGavran-Greenberg Hall. Mondays at 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays at 10 a.m.
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 »
Planting Indigenous Seeds and Pulling Colonized Weeds in Indian Country: The Politics of Racial Cleansing and Erasing History
This event qualifies for 1.5 credit hours toward the Gillings School's annual inclusive excellence training requirements for faculty and staff. In order to plant seeds, one must first pull weeds. But what exactly does that mean in terms of decolonization? Virtually join the University of Oklahoma on September 22, as Dr. Cornel Pewewardy (Kiowa-Camanche), Vice... 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... Read more »
Identifying and Correcting Errors in Big Data
Dr. Ashley Amaya is a Senior Survey Methodologist at the Pew Research Center. She has a PhD in survey methodology from the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University... Read more »
Gillings Walking Group
Gillings Walking Group Meet at Pittsboro St. entrance to McGavran-Greenberg Hall. Mondays at 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays at 10 a.m.
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... Read more »
Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) Open House
The UNC Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) invites you to attend their virtual Open House on Monday, Sept. 27 from 1-2:00 p.m. The CHER Open House is an opportunity... Read more »
Bullying as a Developmental Precursor to Sexual and Dating Violence across Adolescence
The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute's Carolina Consortium on Human Development is pleased to welcome Dr. Dorothy Espelage as the next presenter in their Fall 2021 Series - New Faces and New Directions! Join them Mondays from 2 - 3:15 p.m. (EST) via zoom. On Monday, September 27th, Dr. Dorothy Espelage will present Bullying... Read more »
Home Environments Book Club & Peer Support Pod
Mondays 6:45-7:30 p.m. starting August 23 Are you needing to "reboot" your home environment? Declutter? Create calm amidst chaos? Carve out a niche for work, hobbies or a place to... Read more »