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GillingsX 2021: Session 2
GILLINGSX 2021 – RESILIENCE IN TIMES OF CRISIS SESSION 2: RESILIENCE WITHIN THE INDIVIDUAL Wednesday, March 24 @8 a.m. | Registration required Is Self-Compassion a Key to Resilience? - Dr.... Read more »
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Infectious Disease Intelligence: Predicting the Next Pandemic
In this webinar, John Drake, Ph.D., will describe the surveillance tools used to understand how interactions between humans and pathogenic reservoir-species may lead to spillover events. He’ll also discuss the... Read more »
NC TraCS COVID-19 Journal Club: Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine
Join this month's COVID-19 journal club to discuss the use of real-world data to evaluate the effectiveness of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine as described in this recent paper published in... Read more »
Equity and Childhood Resilience
This lecture qualifies for 1.5 hours of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. In this seminar, Dr. Lauren A. Smith will discuss how the principles of equity can contribute to building resilience and overall wellbeing among children and youth. The discussion will touch on ways structural biases,... Read more »
GATHER Film Screening & Panel Discussion
This event qualifies for 2.5 hours of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. Join the Gillings Alumni Association on March 24 for a 5 p.m. screening of GATHER - an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political, and cultural identities... Read more »
Wind Down Wednesday – Mental Fitness Series
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 »
The Future of Social Impact and Innovation
Sonal Shah is a Professor at Georgetown University, and was the Founding Executive Director of the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation (2014-20). Sonal served as Deputy Assistant to... Read more »
Centering Race in Data Science
This lecture qualifies for 75 minutes of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. Creating a race + equity task force in Data Science. Registration required. Desmond Upton Patton is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work at Columbia University. He is a Public Interest Technologist... Read more »
Identifying effector genes of human GWAS variants by INFIMA
Dr. Sunduz Keles will give a biostatistics talk titled "Identifying effector genes of human GWAS variants by INFIMA". The Keles Research Group is interested in statistical and computational genomics and... Read more »
Home Environments for Wellness Book Club and Peer Support Pod
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 »
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GillingsX 2021: Session 3
GILLINGSX 2021 – RESILIENCE IN TIMES OF CRISIS SESSION 3: GROWTH DURING A PANDEMIC Thursday, March 25 @ 8 p.m. | Registration required Behind the Front Lines: the Role of... Read more »
Farm to Hospital
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 »
Remote or Removed? Predicting Successful Engagement and Online Learning During COVID-19
The seminar series will increase awareness about the impact of disparities that contribute to children’s ability to keep pace, which have broad dire effects on the neurodevelopmental trajectories of children... Read more »
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.
“We Gotta Do Better”: Adolescents’ Beliefs, Feelings, and Actions Towards Racism
This lecture qualifies for 75 minutes of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. On Monday, March 29, Dr. Josefina Bañales joins the Carolina Consortium on Human Development to present “We Gotta Do Better”: Adolescents’ Beliefs, Feelings, and Actions Towards Racism as part of their Spring 2021 series... Read more »
Work-Life Balance In A Work-From-Home Environment
Working from home can offer a lot of flexibility but can also present challenges not experienced in an office environment. Competing disruptions, different routines, and a nagging feeling to open that laptop after hours can lead to negative feelings. This session looks at the benefits of formulating a work-from-home plan in order to achieve the... Read more »
Vaccination Program Then & Now: One of the Great Achievements in US: 1900-1999
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 30: Kayla Hammond and Brianna A. Ford – “Vaccination Program Then & Now: One of... Read more »
Bringing a Racial Equity Focus to Health Informatics: Workshop
This workshop qualifies for 1.5 hours of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. Featuring: Adam Dodd and Barrie Hayes, UNC Health Sciences Library Dr. Amanda Seyerle, UNC School of Pharmacy Dr. Whitney Robinson, Gillings School of Global Public Health Participants will select and attend one breakout room... Read more »