FPG's Carolina Consortium on Human Development is pleased to welcome Dr. Jessica Steinbrenner 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, November 8th, Dr. Jessica Steinbrenner will present "School and Community-Based Research with Individuals on... Read more »
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 Meet at Pittsboro St. entrance to McGavran-Greenberg Hall. Mondays at 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays at 10 a.m.
Dr. Susan Sumner from the UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI), professors from her laboratory team, and undergraduate researchers from her lab will share the unique opportunities available for undergraduate students at the NRI. Learn more and view the session. This event is part of University Research Week.
Please join the Research, Innovation and Global Solutions team to learn more about a funded global health summer fellowship opportunity with IntraHealth International. A representative from IntraHealth will discuss the fellowship, and previous fellows will be available to talk about their experience and answer questions. Registration is required. The program description and applications will be... Read more »
Enjoy four 15 minute virtual presentations by this year’s recipients of the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Scholarly Achievement. The talks will provide an engaging look into these distinguished early career scholars’ work in the fields of astronomy, biology, communications and public health equity. Learn more. This event is part of University Research Week.... Read more »
Join Carolina for Kibera (CFK) for a talk on CFK Africa: Pandemic Frontline Global Health in Kenya Informal Settlements. Feel free to attend in person or via Zoom. To watch via Zoom, please register.
This training qualifies for 2.5 hours of credit toward the Gillings School's annual inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. HAVEN (Helping Advocates for EndingViolence Now) is a collaboration between the Equal Opportunity and Compliance office, the Carolina Women’s Center and Student Wellness. It provides students, faculty, staff and postdoctoral students with tools to... Read more »
Leveraging the strengths of Carolina’s schools of public health and medicine, its affiliated research centers and institutes, and its prowess in big data management, the Heterogeneity in Obesity Creativity Hub: Transdisciplinary Approaches for Precision Research and Treatment is a large, collaborative project with 27 faculty from 16 departments, six schools and five centers and institutes.... 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 your stress and anxiety low during the semester. Please register and select... Read more »
The UNC Student Chapter of ISPE has scheduled the 14th Annual Harry Guess Memorial Lecture to be held on Thursday, Nov. 11 from 3:30-4:30 p.m. with Dr. Bob Glynn. The lecture will be held remotely this year and will be accessible through a zoom link.
Addressing a need that affects over the drinking water in North Carolina, as well as 1.8 billion people worldwide, the Sustainable Access to Clean Water Creativity Hub is pursuing the development of an innovative, affordable membrane-based water purification tool that can safely remove a broad range of water contaminants. The project team is comprised of polymer chemists,... Read more »
The Department of Nutrition invites you to join Professor Alice Ammerman, DrPH, ’90, MPH ’82, as she accepts the Nutrition Distinguished Alumni Award with a virtual cook along and research update on Thursday, Nov. 11. She will be demonstrating a recipe from her Med-South diet: a dietary pattern designed and rigorously tested by Ammerman and... Read more »
The rapid growth of mobile phones in developing countries opens up new possibilities for data collection. Short message service (SMS), interactive voice response (IVR), online surveys (web) and computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) can produce data faster and less expensively than face-to-face surveys. This course will introduce students to the design and implementation of SMS, IVR,... Read more »
Mark your calendars for Friday, Nov. 12, 1-3 p.m. Students, staff, and faculty are invited to join the virtual PHield trip to the Orange County Health Department. Take this chance to learn about public health in our community! Explore how the health department functions and talk with staff about their journeys in public health. Register... Read more »
This event qualifies for one hour of credit toward the Gillings School's annual inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. This session features the work of leading campus health equity researchers. All are working towards developing solutions to reduce critical social and racial inequities. At this event, we will also present the Gillings Health... Read more »
