Informational Meeting: Governmental Public Health Student Chapter

Are you interested in governmental public health practice? We are starting a Student Chapter of the National Association of County and Health Officials and invite you to an informational meeting. This chapter will help you: • connect with resources (best practices, webinars, publications, internships/jobs). • network with health departments. • connect internally to discuss governmental... Read more »

Event Series Gillings Black Student Support Pod

Gillings Black Student Support Pod

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 students who identify as Black in the Gillings School of Global Public Health.  The purpose of this support pod is to create opportunities for students to... Read more »

Wellness Wednesday: Mental Health Awareness

At one time or another, everyone experiences symptoms of mental illness. Too frequently the response to such symptoms in the workplace is confusion, fear, judgment, avoidance and outright rejection. This... Read more »

Gillings Wind Down Wednesday: Mental Fitness

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 »

Nutrition for a Healthy Brain

Celebrate Healthy Aging month with Gillings Culture of Health at a lunch and learn on Nutrition for a Healthy Brain! Learn about eating to support a healthy brain (and gut... Read more »

Text Analysis Using R

This course explains how to clean and analyze textual data using R, including both raw and structured texts. It will cover multiple hands-on approaches to getting data into R and... Read more »

Event Series Gentle Yoga

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... Read more »

SYNCH 2021: The National Conference for HIV, HCV, STI and LGBT Health

The 8th annual Synchronicity conference offers engaging talks from leaders in HIV, HCV, and STI prevention and care. Group rates are available as are scholarships for students. Continuing education units are available. Registration rates are as follows: Individual $90 Partner Organizations $75 per person Group (Five or more) $65 per person Poster Author $50 per... Read more »

Wellness Wednesday: Unconscious Bias

We all hold biases we aren’t aware of. Many of these biases are necessary to make quick decisions as we go about our day—which street to avoid when driving or... Read more »

Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling

Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a general statistical method that can be employed to test theoretically derived models. In this introductory short course, we cover the fundamental concepts and skills... Read more »

Clear communication of race and ethnicity for public health: Best practices & common failings

Interested in improving the precision of communicating about race/ethnicity in publication? Join a team of interdisciplinary student researchers presenting a pre-conference workshop before the annual International Association of Population Health Science meeting. The workshop is open to non-conference members or attendees. Gillings students and faculty are encouraged to attend so that collectively we can improve... Read more »

Be Proactive Rather than Reactive and Conquer Your Semester

UNC Gillings Student Success Seminars focus on empowering all of our students to succeed in navigating the university environment.  We plan the seminars with the overall goal of equipping students to achieve their academic and personal goals by offering sessions geared toward enhanced learning (e.g. research talks), sessions on interpersonal development, personal responsibility, professional development, leadership,... Read more »

UNC ISPOR Presents: Past Presidents Panel

Get to know more about the UNC student chapter of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) and the past presidents' journeys through UNC to their current role in Health Economics and Outcomes Research. A Q&A session will follow. Watch online. Contact Anna Li with questions.

Identifying and Correcting Errors in Big Data

Dr. Ashley Amaya is a Senior Survey Methodologist at the Pew Research Center. She has a PhD in survey methodology from the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. Dr. Amaya has published several articles and book chapters on the Total Survey Error Framework, it’s adaptation to Big Data, and the synthesis... Read more »