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 »
The Gillings Student Government Association is hosting a platelet drive as part of National Public Health Week. If interested in donating platelets, please email Julia Nevison to schedule a time.
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 »
Join NC TraCS and the UNC Center for AIDS Research for the Spring 2021 edition of the Implementation Science Speaker Series, featuring Carolyn Audet, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Epidemiology and Assistant Director of Community Based Implementation Research at Vanderbilt University. In this seminar, Audet will discuss the engagement of traditional healers in... Read more »
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. Wed, April 7 from 1-2 p.m. ET Daphne C.... Read more »
Fourth-year doctoral candidate Ryan Kandrack will defend his dissertation, titled "Promise and performance of primary care vertical integration: Effects on spending, utilization and quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries." The defense will take place via Zoom. Contact Valerie Hooker for password to enter meeting.
The Department of Nutrition is excited to share the inaugural Weight Stigma Awareness Series! Nutrition students and faculty curated this two-part event to increase awareness of weight stigma and lay the foundation for addressing it at the individual, research and practice levels. Join us as we learn about weight stigma in public health research and... Read more »
Let’s have a conversation about what addiction looks like in people socialized as women. What typically co-occurs with substance use? When does substance use become disordered, and what does recovery look like? What policies determine who is allowed to be pregnant or parent while using substances or pursuing recovery? How does discrimination inform institutional 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... 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 »
Join the Gillings School Student Government Association (SGA) to learn more about students' research and entrepreneurship projects. This event will be all asynchronous and virtual. Students will record a 5-10 minute video discussing their project that will be uploaded to SGA's National Public Health Week website. See flyer for prize details. Sign up using the... Read more »
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 »
Join translational and clinical scientists from across the CTSA Consortium for a presentation by Hanny Al-Samkari, MD describing the revolutionary potential of anti-angiogenic therapy in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) and the evidence to date for systemic bevacizumab as a treatment for bleeding and anemia in HHT. Registration required. Contact Allison Rorie with any questions.
Dr. Donna Spiegelman has a joint doctorate in biostatistics and epidemiology and her research is motivated by problems that arise in epidemiology and require biostatistical settlement; in part a focus on troubleshooting methods for study design and data analysis to reduce bias in estimation and inference due to measurement error or misclassification in the exposure... Read more »
This lecture qualifies for 2 hours of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. The MPA Alumni Association created this lecture series in... 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 »
