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Come out to the GiveUNC Student Event!
This event will provide students with the resources available to practice interviewing. Interview etiquette and general tips to prepare for and navigate the interview process will be covered in this presentation. To join via zoom, visit: https://unc.zoom.us/j/92426514672.
This event will be taking place on Tuesday, March 26th at 5 p.m. in 133 Rosenau and virtually over Zoom. "Health Under Fire" will include two interdisciplinary speakers in the... Read more »
Everybody eats. But how do we eat well, in a way that tastes good, keeps us healthy, and helps protect the planet? In this session, we will cover the current state of what we are eating in the US and globally. We’ll talk about how current diets are contributing to chronic diseases like type 2... Read more »
Next in the Innovate Carolina Founders Forum series is an interview with Dr. Alice Ammerman, Founder and CEO of Equiti Foods. After years of research into the food system, food insecurity and how to prevent chronic disease, nutrition professor Dr. Ammerman founded her company with the goal of providing local, affordable, and most importantly, nutritious,... Read more »
The HPM curriculum includes a combination of courses in public health and health policy and management, a summer internship, elective courses (including senior honors thesis and graduate-level options), and a year-long capstone experience. The curriculum emphasizes collaboration and application through multiple semester and year-long team projects, some with community partners. Students go through the program... Read more »
The April 2024 issue of Health Affairs focuses on the topic: “Perinatal Mental Health & Well-Being.” Building on the success of our October 2021 issue on perinatal mental health, the new issue expands the focus on equity, justice, and wellbeing. You are invited to join us on Wednesday, April 3, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Eastern), for a virtual... Read more »
Are you interested in careers in governmental public health? The Minority Student Caucus invites students, faculty and staff to participate in a panel discussion on the career opportunities within the NC Division of Public Health. Weather permitting, an in person networking opportunity will follow.
This is a seminar sponsored by the NSF-funded Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr), comprising five North Carolina institutions including Duke, N.C. A&T, NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill, and UNC-Charlotte. PreMiEr’s mission is to improve the health of people within the built environment through manipulation of indoor microbiomes.
This event will provide Gillings students the opportunity to network with Gillings alumni & employers. We hope Gillings students will put into practice networking skills & make meaningful connections at the event. This event will also provide all attendees the opportunity for a free professional headshot, hors d'oeuvres, & more. Professional dress is recommended. Registration... Read more »
Gillings PUBH 784 class will provide six booths at this year’s Expo. One booth will be featured in the Small Science Tent engaging young community members about the importance of nurturing gut health. Other booths will cover topics that include: health benefits of nature therapy; adolescent substance use; outdoor equity; food insecurity. Contact Lori Evarts... Read more »
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... 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... 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. In addition to a month-long diaper and wipe drive kicking off on April 1, All donations will go to Equity Before Birth, a community-based organization... 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... 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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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... 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.
This course is being offered in collaboration between the Odum Institute and the Center for Urban & Regional Studies. This hands-on course will focus on the use of Google Earth Engine (GEE) for urban research applications. It will demonstrate how free and open-source satellite imagery can be utilized to map urban areas and urbanization trends... Read more »
Focus groups are commonly used to capture rich information about attitudes and beliefs. This class will prepare prospective students to organize and moderate focus groups. Students will learn the most... Read more »
The Employee Forum invites the Carolina community to the 36th annual Carolina Blood Drive, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 1 in the Smith Center. For 36 years, the Carolina Blood Drive has potentially impacted more than 120,000 lives through blood donations. Show you bleed Carolina blue. Free parking available or ride the bus... Read more »
Please join us for the Channing J. Der Annual Career Symposium on May 1, 2024 at 12:00 PM, featuring career-focused talks representing different career paths. This will be offered as a hybrid event at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Pagano Conference Room. Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees. For more information and to register,... Read more »
Please join the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center for the Channing J. Der Annual Career Symposium on May 1, 2024, featuring career-focused talks representing different career paths. This will be offered as a hybrid event. Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees. For more information and to register, please visit here. For questions, please email lccctraining@unc.edu.
Health Behavior Presents: Teaching Assistant Professor Candidate Naya Villarreal, MPH, is the Gillings Global Health Associate Director in the Global Health unit at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public... Read more »