All are invited to the weekly ESE In-House Seminar Series which continues virtually on Feb. 17 at 12:20 p.m. with Risa Sayre presenting “The Quest for Average Water.” The series asks speakers to tailor their presentation for a general audience so that all participants benefit. For more details, view the lecture flyer and view the... Read more »
This online 3-day (2/17, 2/18, 2/19) course will offer an introduction to SPSS and will demonstrate how to work with data saved in SPSS format. It will demonstrate how to work with SPSS syntax, how to create your own SPSS data files, and how to convert data in other formats to SPSS. it will also... Read more »
Explore public health in action! Join the virtual PHield trip with RTI International on Feb. 18 from 1-3:00 p.m. The event will feature a keynote on mobilizing global public health... Read more »
Dr. Lina Montoya's doctorate was funded by an F31 NIH grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Her project leveraged data from a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized... Read more »
This online 3-day (2/17, 2/18, 2/19) course will offer an introduction to SPSS and will demonstrate how to work with data saved in SPSS format. It will demonstrate how to work with SPSS syntax, how to create your own SPSS data files, and how to convert data in other formats to SPSS. it will also... Read more »
This event, hosted by the Office of Student Affairs, will give public health students tips and tricks in their career searching. Register on Handshake.
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 wellness. We’ll learn about some common themes in design and wellness, read a book that will guide us through our individual home assessments and share... Read more »
Want to get more involved in the technology field? Are you a beginner and wondering how to get started? Do you want to build connections with both your peers and sponsors? Come #GrowWithPearlHacks and register! Pearl Hacks is a student-organized hackathon for female and non-binary students, where participants of all experience levels can learn, connect... Read more »
Hosted by Student Services at the Gillings School, this support pod is for international students. Feb. 19 at noon Registration required.
This event qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the Gillings School's inclusive excellence training requirements for faculty and staff. Join the Equity Research Action Coalition for the upcoming meeting “Black Parent Voices - Resilience in the Face of the Two Pandemics: COVID-19 and Racism.” Iheoma U. Iruka and Stephanie M. Curenton, co-founders of Researchers... Read more »
This online 3-day (2/17, 2/18, 2/19) course will offer an introduction to SPSS and will demonstrate how to work with data saved in SPSS format. It will demonstrate how to work with SPSS syntax, how to create your own SPSS data files, and how to convert data in other formats to SPSS. it will also... Read more »
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 who identify as Black in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. The purpose of this support pod is to create opportunities for students... Read more »
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.
Monday, February 22, 2021 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Register to attend the webinar or watch live on the Watson Institute's YouTubechannel. Vaccine Roll-out: What's Working for Implementation? A conversation with public health experts overseeing vaccinations in successful locations. What can other state leaders learn from these examples and scale the efforts that are working... Read more »
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School faculty and staff inclusive excellence training requirements. In this session, researchers and community advocates will provide insights into... Read more »
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. Join the NCCU Department of Public Health Education on Tuesdays a 10:40 a.m. to receive empowering health information. February 23: Tanya Bass, MS, MED., CHES, CSE and Leslie Massicotte, Practicum Student – “Consent and... Read more »
This lecture qualifies for 1.5 credit hours toward the annual Gillings School faculty and staff inclusive excellence training requirement. In the wake of a summer of protests against police brutality,... Read more »
All are invited to the weekly Environmental Sciences and Engineering In-House Seminar Series, which continues on Zoom on Feb. 24 at 12:20 p.m. with doctoral student Alejandro Valencia presenting “The solution to pollution is resolution - Geostatistical methods to improve the spatiotemporal resolution of air pollution exposure modeling.” The series asks speakers to tailor their... Read more »
Join the NC TraCS Comparative Effectiveness Research team in an online journal club discussion of "Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine," published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Registration is required. Contact with Michelle Maclay questions.
This lecture qualifies for 1.5 credit hours toward annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirements. The Race, Racism, and Racial Equity (R3) Symposium, co-hosted by the University Office for Diversity and Inclusion, the Jordan Institute for Families and the UNC School of Social Work's Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, is a series of virtual events... Read more »
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 stress and anxiety low during the semester. Jan. 27: Radical Self Care... Read more »
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. How do we improve health outcomes and increase access to care for the people of North Carolina and beyond? Join Anita Brown-Graham, UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member and host of PBS North Carolina's ncIMPACT public affairs... Read more »
Join KickStart Venture Services for the next edition of the KickStart Presents webinar series. “Where innovation and introspection meet: a guide for managing stress as a startup founder” will include an overview of mindfulness and a guided practice from teacher and self-compassion researcher, Dr. Karen Bluth, followed by a Q&A with the speaker and two... Read more »
Dr. Richard Zink spent 17 years in and around medical product development at a real-world data company (Target RWE) where he led data management and statistics in the analysis and... Read more »
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 »
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 wellness. We’ll learn about some common themes in design and wellness, read a book that will guide us through our individual home assessments and share... Read more »
This event, hosted by the Office of Student Affairs, will highlight a public health employer. Register on Handshake.
This course will present the conceptual underpinnings of treatment effect estimation under random assignment and complement those underpinnings with a discussion of frequently encountered challenges in the context of social experimentation. Design, sampling, and analysis issues under random assignment will be addressed followed by a brief introduction to propensity score methods as a quasi-experimental option... Read more »
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 »
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. Join the NCCU Department of Public Health Education on... Read more »
Presenter Sam Cykert, MD, professor UNC School of Medicine Sam Cykert, MD, will describe how implementation of the Heart Health Now study affected cardiovascular risk when applied to high-risk patients in 219 practices across North Carolina. Half of these practices were in rural areas and a quarter of high-risk patients were Black. The discussion will... Read more »
All are invited to the weekly Environmental Sciences and Engineering In-House Seminar Series, which continues on Zoom on March 3 at 12:20 p.m. with Dr. Jason West presenting “Feeding Two Birds with One Scone: Connecting Air Pollution, Climate Change, Energy and Health.” The series asks speakers to tailor their presentation to a general audience so... Read more »
Online surveys now represent a large segment of the research on public attitudes and behaviors. In this workshop, participants will cover metrics for evaluating common data quality issues and strategies... Read more »
In this info session, participants will learn about the Mary Rose Tully Training Initiative through the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CGBI). This program is a Pathway 2 Lactation Consultant training... Read more »
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 »
Dr. Christina Kendziorski's research concerns statistical methods and software for computational biology and genomics. Her group develops statistical methods and software for the analysis of data from high-throughput genomics experiments... Read more »
This online short course provides an introduction to logistic regression. Model specification, identification, estimation, hypothesis-testing, and interpretation of results are covered. Software to estimate these models is discussed, but not... Read more »
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 »
Environmental Sciences and Engineering Centennial Seminar Series Speaker: Jian Zhen Yu (PhD, 1996) Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering 2020 Distinguished Alumna Dr. Yu is a professor in the Department... Read more »
This workshop will: • Define an investigational drug, including off-label use of FDA approved drugs • Provide guidance on determining when the IND regulations apply to research studies • Discuss... Read more »
Approximately once a month, the Womxn in Healthcare Leadership student group hosts hourly “Coffee Chat” sessions that bring in guest speakers from around the country to discuss their experiences with... Read more »
Join Gillings MPH/RD students as they host experts from different areas of the food system as part of the inaugural Farm to Institution Speaker Series, held under the Food for... Read more »
This year's theme is "Health Policy & Emergency Preparedness: Are We Ready for the Next Crisis?" Dr. Brandy N. Kelly Pryor of the Humana Foundation will deliver the keynote address:... Read more »
Health policy and management doctoral candidate Hailey James will defend her dissertation work on Friday, March 5. Her dissertation is titled, "What happens when hospitals no longer have a volume... Read more »
Interested in healthcare, public health or improving global population health? Join the AID India UNC-CH speaker event on Sunday, March 7 at 10 a.m. JSS is a people's health support... Read more »
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 »
On Monday, March 8, Dr. Adam Hoffman joins FPG’s Carolina Consortium on Human Development to present "Considering Development in Indian Country: A Look with the Cherokee Indians" as part of their Spring 2021 series on Culture & Developmental Science: Considering Context, Culture, and Intersectional Approaches! Join them Monday afternoons from 2:00 – 3:15 p.m. (EST)... Read more »
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training for faculty and staff. Please join the Cancer Outcomes Research Program on Tuesday, March 9 for the Cancer Outcomes Research Program Weekly Virtual Breakfast Seminar. Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine Director, Center for Health... Read more »
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. Join the NCCU Department of Public Health Education on Tuesdays a 10:40 a.m. to receive empowering health information. March 9: MiAnna Patterson and Cierra Campbell – “Pandemics Then, Now, & Future: Implications for Public... Read more »
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. The Carolina Health Informatics Program along with the Health Sciences Library invites you to participate in a two-part event intended to help health informatics students and researchers at UNC incorporate a racial equity focus... Read more »
Gillings Game Night Event Series is a virtual social hour hosted by Natiaya Neal, Student Affairs Events Manager. Please register to receive the zoom links. All winners will receive newly branded Gillings swag items! In order to ship prizes following game night, please make sure to submit a DELIVERY address when you register. Email Natiaya... Read more »
All are invited to the weekly Environmental Science and Engineering In-House Seminar Series which continues virtually on March 10 at 12:20 pm with Dr. John Wambaugh presenting “Machine Learning, Kevin Bacon and Other Things I’ve Found Useful for Filling Chemical Risk Data Gaps.” The series asks speakers to tailor their presentation for a general audience... Read more »
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 stress and anxiety low during the semester. Jan. 27: Radical Self Care... Read more »
The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) Program presents a virtual symposium featuring keynote speaker and P&F awardee Dr. Penny Gordon-Larsen and presentations from P&F award winners... Read more »
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 wellness. We’ll learn about some common themes in design and wellness, read a book that will guide us through our individual home assessments and share... Read more »
This event qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. In the late 1960’s, Bill Jenkins was at his first job at the federal National Center for Health Statistics when he found out about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. He and a small group of... Read more »
This workshop will: • Discuss FDA’s approach to regulation of devices in clinical studies and for marketing • Provide guidance on when the IDE regulations apply and discuss possible exemptions • Review significant risk and non-significant risk device studies • Discuss the preparation, submission, and maintenance of IDE applications • Encourage participant discussion of case... Read more »
