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.
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.
This event qualifies for 40 minutes of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. Mitigating Misogyny: Theorizing Digital Age Feminist Activism with DEB AIKAT, Ph. D. When: 12:05 p.m. – 12:30 p.m., March 15 (Monday) Where: Kirkland Auditorium (limited seating), UNC-CH Adams School of Dentistry & Livestream DOCSpeaks... Read more »
On March 15, Dr. Qi Wang joins FPG’s Carolina Consortium on Human Development to present Causes and Consequences of Memory Development: Perspectives Through a Cultural Lens as part of our Spring 2021 series on Culture & Developmental Science: Considering Context, Culture, and Intersectional Approaches! Join them Monday afternoons from 2:00 – 3:15 PM (EST) via... 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 16: Dr. Lisa Paulin and Dr. Tianduo Zhang - "COVID-19 Vaccines: Making an Informed Decision"... Read more »
Join NC TraCS for the next Wisdom in the Room, a conference call series providing a forum for those interested in community-engaged research. This month’s focus is on engaging youth as stakeholders. Tania Connaughton-Espino and Meredith Burns of SHIFT NC will lead a discussion about the development of SHIFT NC’s new Youth Advisory Council, share... Read more »
Come join the Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice's Student Executive Committee for an evening of scavenger hunts and storytelling on Tuesday, March 16 from 6-7 p.m. on Zoom. This is a great opportunity to meet students from various professions as you work together to win a scavenger hunt & as you learn from each... Read more »
This course is an introduction to the basic concepts for weighting. It begins by discussing the goals of survey weighting – correcting for differential selection probabilities, compensating for non-response and non-coverage and reducing the variance of the estimates. The course covers the process of developing weights for stratified two-stage sampling including computing design weights and... Read more »
The Department of Allied Health Sciences will host a research forum on March 17 from 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. EST titled Improving Health and Education through Community-Based Research and Evaluation. Dr. Howell Wechsler leads FHI 360’s work to improve lives in communities across the United States that face the greatest barriers and have the... Read more »
All are invited to the final weekly ESE In-House Seminar Series which finishes virtually on March 17 at 12:20 p.m. with Dr. Shabbir Gheewala presenting “Life cycle thinking in a circular economy: A round peg in a circular whole.” The series asks speakers to tailor their presentation for a general audience so that all participants... Read more »
The opioid crisis response has largely overlooked multiple patient populations with complex opioid-related vulnerabilities, including older adults with cancer or dementia. Join Andrew Roberts for a presentation of findings from his KL2-funded work examining high-risk opioid use patterns and outcomes in older adult cancer survivors. He will also discuss future directions for work informing opioid... Read more »
Robert Agans, PhD, researches new methods to produce cost-effective population-based estimates for gender and sexual minorities. In this seminar, Agans will highlight recent findings using a new technique developed at UNC, including some health disparity data between transgender and cisgender people. The NC TraCS Inclusive Science Program Spring Seminar Series highlights research with a focus... Read more »
Dr. Xiang Zhou is a John G. Searle Assistant Professor of biostatistics who received his M.S. in statistics and PhD in neurobiology from Duke University (2010). His research focuses on... Read more »
The purpose of this online 2-day (3/18 and 3/19) course is to give an overview of structural equation models (SEMs). It is not an introduction to SEM software but focuses... 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 »
Pre-Med? Looking to learn more about the next steps to get into MD or DO programs? Alpha Epsilon Delta and Carolina Health Samaritan Society are hosting Deans from UNC, UVA,... Read more »
This workshop qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the Gillings School's annual inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. The goal of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Diversity Supplement program is to enhance the diversity of the research workforce by recruiting and supporting students, postdoctorates and eligible investigators from underrepresented backgrounds, including... Read more »
Kappe Lecture - Dan Oerther, Professor of Environmental Health Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology. Registration required. Professor Daniel B. Oerther (pronounced O’ thur) is renowned for interprofessional education... 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 lecture qualifies for 1.5 hours of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. In this free 90-minute session, Dr. Lewis will provide... Read more »
The purpose of this online 2-day (3/18 and 3/19) course is to give an overview of structural equation models (SEMs). It is not an introduction to SEM software but focuses... 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... 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 »
What’s happening with COVID-19 variants? How might they affect the community? What’s the latest on trends, variants, vaccines and vaccine roll-out in North Carolina? What’s the state of the science regarding medications, transmission, COVID-19 on college campuses, treatment protocols and herd immunity? What does the future hold? Join experts in epidemiology to find out answers... Read more »
GILLINGSX 2021 - RESILIENCE IN TIMES OF CRISIS SESSION 1: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM PAST GLOBAL EXPERIENCES? Monday, March 22 @ 1 p.m. | Registration required Defusing the 'Cultural Bomb': Resilience in Practicing and UsingTraditional Medicine in Madagascar - Stephanie Chung (she/her), MSPH to PhD, Maternal and Child Health Resiliency through Storytelling: The Power... Read more »
Doctoral candidate Natalie Smith will be defending her dissertation research on Monday, March 22 at 1:00 pm EDT. Her dissertation is titled "Cost-effectiveness for public health policymaking: The case of... Read more »
This lecture qualifies for 75 mins of credit toward the Gilling School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. FPG’s Carolina Consortium on Human Development is honored to host... 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 »
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... Read more »
For decades, scientists warned of the potential for a global coronavirus outbreak. But when SARS-CoV-2 emerged, no therapeutics, drugs or vaccines were readily available. Founded by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill, the Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative (READDI) is finding solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic while developing drugs and therapeutics for future viral outbreaks —... Read more »
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. Melissa Clepper-Faith (she/her), MPH in Maternal and Child Health Let's TikTok about it: What do Young-Adult BIPOC with MentalHealth Concerns Want to See in the... Read more »
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 dynamical models that researchers use once an outbreak has been reported to understand how an infectious disease spatially spreads. Registration required.
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 the New England Journal of Medicine: BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine in a Nationwide Mass Vaccination Setting. Discussion Leaders Michele Jonsson-Funk, PhD Associate Professor, Epidemiology Gillings... Read more »
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... Read more »
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 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 »
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 »
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... Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 Virology in Pandemic Response and Preparedness - Cait Edwards (she/her), MPH in Applied Epidemiology Resilience Redefined - Dr. Bahby Banks (she/her), MPH in Public Health... 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 »
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 »
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 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... Read more »