The next WASH in Healthcare Facilities Initiative webinar is titled, "Understanding the Cost of WASH in Health Care Facilities: Where Do We Start?" and will take place on Thursday, February 21 at 9:00am EST. Click here to see the event in your time zone. Register here for this webinar, powered by Zoom. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about how to... Read more »
The Racial Equity Institute presents “A Groundwater Approach to Racial Equity", sponsored by Durham County and the Durham Chamber of Commerce. In the half-day Groundwater Approach workshop, trainers use data and stories from a variety of sources to demonstrate the ongoing and pervasive impact of race. This research-based presentation focuses on the following six points... Read more »
Qualitative research methods are often used when conducting community-engaged research. During this presentation, MaryBeth Grewe, CaSE Qualitative Research Specialist, will provide an introduction to qualitative research methods. This presentation will discuss the differences between quantitative and qualitative research and provide an overview of qualitative research methods, including qualitative research methodologies, strategies for data collection and methods... Read more »
Mandy Cohen, MD, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), will deliver the Novant Lecture on Thursday, February 21, 2019. More information to follow. This event is organized by doctoral candidates in the Department of Health Policy and Management. Please contact Abby Hoffman with any questions.
Kai Zhang will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled "BET on Independence." Kai Zhang, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at UNC. Abstract: We study the problem of nonparametric dependence detection. Many existing methods may suffer severe power loss due to non-uniform consistency, which we illustrate with a paradox. To avoid... Read more »
Michael Chertoff was US Secretary of Homeland Security from 2005 to 2009, and had previously served as a US Attorney, a US Assistant Attorney General and a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The Secretary’s talk will cover a broad range of topics with a particular emphasis on digital... Read more »
Join colleagues for a quick walk around the neighborhood. Meet at the Pittsboro Street entrance of McGavran-Greenberg Hall for this fun Culture of Health exercise opportunity. Bad weather? No problem. Leader Penny Slade-Sawyer will find an indoor route! Contact Penny with any questions at mps3@email.unc.edu. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health.... Read more »
Have you ever been perplexed by how our NC child welfare system functions? Join the Child Maltreatment Research and Practice Network to explore how decisions are made within our child welfare system. Presenter: Amy Levine, MSW, LCSW, clinical instructor at the UNC School of Social Work Please contact Anna Austin with any questions.
Students, faculty and staff are invited to join the Culture of Health team for free yoga classes. Beginners are welcome and mats are provided! Please contact Penny Slade-Sawyer, mps3@email.unc.edu, if you have any questions. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule one-one-one wellness appointments, find health recipes and see all... Read more »
All Gillings School students, faculty and staff are invited to join this Culture of Health activity for a half-hour of calm breathing and mind decluttering. Come when you can and as you are. Please contact Penny Slade-Sawyer, mps3@email.unc.edu, if you have any questions. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule... Read more »
The UNC Center for Global Initiatives is honored to host Pulitzer Prize–winning Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times and UNC alumna Helene Cooper, '87, for a public lecture, "Gathering Global Stories." Cooper will share how her experiences at UNC prepared her for a global career as a journalist covering international economics, trade, foreign policy,... Read more »
The UNC Center for Global Initiatives is honored to host Pulitzer Prize–winning Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times and UNC alumna Helene Cooper, ’87, for a public lecture, “Gathering Global Stories.” Cooper will share how her experiences at UNC prepared her for a global career as a journalist covering international economics, trade, foreign policy,... Read more »
All Gillings School students, faculty and staff are invited to join this Culture of Health activity for a half-hour of calm breathing and mind decluttering. Come when you can and as you are. Please contact Penny Slade-Sawyer, mps3@email.unc.edu, if you have any questions. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule... Read more »
Join colleagues for a quick walk around the neighborhood. Meet at the Pittsboro Street entrance of McGavran-Greenberg Hall for this fun Culture of Health exercise opportunity. Bad weather? No problem. Leader Penny Slade-Sawyer will find an indoor route! Contact Penny with any questions at mps3@email.unc.edu. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health.... Read more »
A screening of ten uniquely Southern stories, portrayed by ten short documentaries… and projected onto the Morehead Planetarium dome to transport you from Atlanta to New Orleans to Eastern North Carolina and beyond! These films were produced by students in the UNC School of Media Journalism for Morehead Planetarium’s upcoming production about the South. Please... Read more »
Interested in public health? Global health? Health policy? USAID? UNICEF? RTI International? Ask Aaron Williams all your questions next Wednesday! RSVP online. Please contact Stephanie Forman with any questions.
Chris Bowers, doctoral student in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, will present this week's seminar in the department’s Spring 2019 series. Bowers’s talk is titled, “Where does it go?... Read more »
Students, faculty and staff are invited to join the Culture of Health team for free yoga classes. Beginners are welcome and mats are provided! Please contact Penny Slade-Sawyer, mps3@email.unc.edu, if you have any questions. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule one-one-one wellness appointments, find health recipes and see all... Read more »
Carolyn Audet, PhD, will present "Couples-based HIV care and treatment in Mozambique: Strategies to improve uptake and adherence to antiretroviral therapy."
Students, faculty and staff are invited to join the Culture of Health team for free yoga classes. Beginners are welcome and mats are provided! Please contact Penny Slade-Sawyer, mps3@email.unc.edu, if you have any questions. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule one-one-one wellness appointments, find health recipes and see all... Read more »
1789 Venture Lab is hosting a talk titled "Minority Entrepreneurship, The Gig Economy and the Changing (but STILL VERY necessary) role of Higher Education." Panelists include Bernard Bell, Doug Speight, Donita Privott, Ketura Parker, Terrance White and Joia Freeman with moderator, Dr. Omar Simpson. Following the talk and Q&A, the popular podcast Intelligently Ratchet (hosted by... Read more »
HAVEN skills training is a training that provides students, faculty, staff and Post Doctoral Fellows with tools to be an ally to someone who has experienced sexual or interpersonal violence or stalking. The training emphasizes the importance of listening and connecting survivors to resources on campus and in the community. Please register online.
This week's biostatistics seminar will be presented by Nathan Kallus, PhD, assistant professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell Tech and Cornell University. Kallas will present a seminar titled "Confounding-Robust Policy Improvement." Abstract: Since observational data no matter how rich will have some unobserved confounding, methods for individualized decision making that assume unconfoundedness... Read more »
Refresh your interviewing skills and learn how to prepare for advanced interviewing techniques including critical behavioral, panel and case interviews. Review the dos and don’ts for interview situations and learn how to address the most difficult questions.
