The teaching and Learning Community of care presents their last two sessions, April 9-10 from Noon – 12:45 p.m. on Zoom. The topic will focus on the intersection of human values, ethical AI integration and innovative pedagogical approaches by discussing how to enhance student learning experiences while maintaining human-centric teaching methodologies. Contact Jessica Vargas with... Read more »
Join the Sheps Center for the Grand Book Launch of Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State! In Equal Care, Seth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH, delves into the social mechanisms that connect injustice to poor health. He presents practical policies designed to create a system of social relations that ensures equal care... Read more »
Grab your lunch and join us for an exciting webinar on double machine learning, presented by Philipp Bach, PhD, MSc & Sven Klaaßen, PhD, MSc. Drs. Bach and Klaaßen are postdoctoral researchers at the University of Hamburg, Faculty of Business Administration, Institute of Statistics. Their research focuses on statistical methods for causal machine learning and... Read more »
"Innovating for health equity: human centered design, artificial intelligence and the future of public health" by Alessandra Bazzano MPH, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Social, Behavioral and Population Sciences and Director of Tulane Center of Excellence in Maternal Child Health (CEMCH) This combined speaker series features high-profile speakers that will inspire, educate and build community... Read more »
The Black Maternal Health Week Coordinating Committee is excited to announce an inaugural student-led week of events sponsored by the MCH department in recognition of Black Maternal Health Week 2024.... Read more »
This seminar will focus on strategies to reimagine and decolonize global health training in the U.S and internationally. Dr. Deshira Wallace will discuss how MPH training and classroom-based learning in the U.S. needs to be restructured and reframed. Dr. Matthew DeCamp and Dr. Limbanazo Matandika will discuss strategies to decolonize and democratize international field-based global... Read more »
UNC-Women in Science and our co-sponsors are honored to invite you to our 9th Annual Spring Symposium, April 12 with our distinguished keynote speaker Dr. Shirley Paddock, a Senior VP at Syneos Health. The full day event additionally includes a career panel and two poster sessions! All are welcome to attend and present a poster... Read more »
This year’s lecture will feature Dr. Ashley Gripper who is active in food and land justice movements and works with urban and rural growers around the country, she will be giving a talk titled Community Solutions to Food Apartheid: Bridging activism, advocacy and academia. Contact Kristen Cowan with questions.
Join the UNC Nutrition Research Institute or a virtual Appetite for Life with guest speaker Dr. Alice Ammerman. She'll discuss Good Bowls, providing nutritious food to lower-income consumers, while creating economic opportunities for local farmers and food entrepreneurs. These bowls offer healthful, locally sourced ingredients, aiming to improve environmental, economic and social well-being in communities... Read more »
Join UNC Gillings Inclusive Excellence for a discussion about the Inclusive Excellence Action Plan. To register for the in-person session, visit https://tinyurl.com/26ubz4cn. The link for theo nline session is: https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5MV4-dO2TW6X3owUdA6oVA Contact Brandon Tweedy with questions.
The ACLU of NC is hosting a premiere of our new short film, North Carolina's Abortion Story, on April 18th at 7PM at Varsity Theater in Chapel Hill. The 10-minute film explores the history of abortion in North Carolina, the modern movement for reproductive justice, and the impact of abortion bans on patients and providers.... Read more »
This course will be offered ONLINE. It will not be recorded as there are in-class activities. This is a 2 hour course.Behavioral researchers are often interested in change within-persons over time that may occur due to environmental phenomenon or during the course of an intervention. In some circumstances there is a question of both whether and... Read more »
The Gillings Student Mental Health and Well-being Task Force is hosting a movement challenge for the month of April with 4 weekly challenges - plus raffle prizes with Gilling's swag and wellbeing items for people who participate! Join here: https://forms.gle/ssDFrspqt4pNCC3D8 It's not too late to join, so feel free to share the registration form with... Read more »
This course will cover a number of unsupervised learning techniques for finding patterns and associations in Big Data. These include dimension reduction techniques such as principal components analysis and non-negative matrix factorization, clustering analysis and significance analysis, and network analysis with graphical models. The main emphasis will be on the analysis of real data sets... Read more »
The Vietnam Administration of HIV/AIDS Control of the Ministry of Health has led the effort to improve HIV care and prevention in Vietnam, including overseeing the adjustments necessary for a changing epidemic. In addition to the governmental response, Hanoi Medical University has been instrumental in leading research to support the HIV response in Vietnam. Lessons... Read more »
Faculty and Staff engaged in research are invited to come learn more about the updates to the NIH policy on foreign sub-awardee reporting, how to comply and how it may affect their research teams. Contact Jaime O'Brien with questions.
