Finding Your Zone of Genius
Melissa Carrier, Director of UNC Social Innovation, will facilitate an activity around the four different zones of function that Gay Hendricks identified in his book, The Big Leap. Dr. Tierney... Read more »
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Wind Down Wednesdays: Making Healthy Food Choices
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 »
UNC-IntraHealth Summer Fellows Program Info Session
UNC-IntraHealth Summer Fellows Program will be holding two virtual information sessions at noon and 5 p.m. on Oct. 28 for Gillings first-year master's students and current doctoral students to learn more about the Fellows program. This is a funded 10-week fellowship during the summer. A representative from IntraHealth and previous fellows will be in attendance... Read more »
Gentle Yoga
Join the Gillings School's Culture of Health for three 30-minute gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays - noon (30 minutes) Wednesdays - noon (30 minutes)... Read more »
How to Be an Antiracist: A Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi will join an audience live on Zoom for a moderated discussion of antiracism with UNC School of Social Work faculty members Travis Albritton and Tonya Van Deinse, followed by a Q&A session with questions submitted by audience members via Zoom chat. Note: The host is not permitted to record this event for... Read more »
Mindfulness Self-Compassion Sessions
In this time that is so challenging for all of us, take a few moments to nurture yourself. UNC's Well-Being Program, in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry, is offering free virtual 20-minute mindfulness sessions to reduce stress and foster strength and resilience. 8:00 a.m. – Tuesday, Thursday 12:15 p.m. – Monday, Wednesday, Friday 4:00... Read more »
COVID-19 and Beyond: Cities on the Front Lines of a Healthier Future
On Thursday, October 29, the Partnership for Healthy Cities—supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the World Health Organization and Vital Strategies—is holding its first discussion to feature the voices of global health leaders and leading mayors on the urban response to COVID-19. The conversation will highlight how city leaders are innovating locally and collaborating globally to guide us through the pandemic toward... Read more »
Discovering how complex traits are regulated using unsupervised learning
Barbara E. Engelhardt, an associate professor, joined the Princeton Computer Science Department in 2014 from Duke University, where she had been an assistant professor in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Statistical Sciences. Her research interests are Machine learning, Bayesian statistics, statistical genetics, computational biology, quantitative genetics and she received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2016.... Read more »
Mindfulness Self-Compassion Sessions
In this time that is so challenging for all of us, take a few moments to nurture yourself. UNC's Well-Being Program, in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry, is offering free virtual 20-minute mindfulness sessions to reduce stress and foster strength and resilience. 8:00 a.m. – Tuesday, Thursday 12:15 p.m. – Monday, Wednesday, Friday 4:00... Read more »
Gillings Pet Lovers Pod – Halloween Party
Please come to the Gillings School Pet Lovers Halloween party. People and pets are invited to dress up and have fun. Everyone is welcome! You don't need a pet or... Read more »
The UNC COVID-19 Household Transmission Study (Co-HOST)
Jessica Lin, MD, MSCR, is an assistant professor of medicine in UNC's Division of Infectious Diseases. She trained in UNC's ID fellowship at UNC and joined the faculty in 2013. Before COVID, she was pursuing clinical and translational studies on drug-resistant malaria and malaria transmission in Cambodia and Tanzania. In April 2020 she launched Co-HOST,... Read more »
Mindfulness Self-Compassion Sessions
In this time that is so challenging for all of us, take a few moments to nurture yourself. UNC's Well-Being Program, in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry, is offering free virtual 20-minute mindfulness sessions to reduce stress and foster strength and resilience. 8:00 a.m. – Tuesday, Thursday 12:15 p.m. – Monday, Wednesday, Friday 4:00... Read more »
Virtual Safe Zone Training
The Standard Safe Zone is designed to introduce concepts, terminology and resources related to sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression. Registration required. Flyer Contact chrisana@live.unc.edu
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Nutrition Seminar: What Are My Biases? Implicit Bias Inventory and Dialogue
This Department of Nutrition seminar, "What Are My Biases? Implicit Bias Inventory and Dialogue," will feature Vickie Suggs-Jones, PhD, diversity and inclusion strategist/consultant from Diversity & HR Solutions, LLC. Registration... Read more »
Gentle Yoga
Join the Gillings School's Culture of Health for three 30-minute gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays - noon (30 minutes) Wednesdays - noon (30 minutes) Wednesdays - 5:15 p.m. (45 minutes) Please contact rcerny@email.unc.edu if you would like to join a class.
Decolonizing Public Health and Reproductive Justice Series: Birth and Reproduction in the Colonial State
Join the Department of Maternal and Child Health for their two-part Critical Conversations series, Decolonizing Public Health and Reproductive Justice. These critical conversations are lead by students in the Maternal and Child Health Department in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. These conversations are open to students, faculty and staff of Gillings. Come... Read more »
Mindfulness Self-Compassion Sessions
In this time that is so challenging for all of us, take a few moments to nurture yourself. UNC's Well-Being Program, in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry, is offering free virtual 20-minute mindfulness sessions to reduce stress and foster strength and resilience. 8:00 a.m. – Tuesday, Thursday 12:15 p.m. – Monday, Wednesday, Friday 4:00... Read more »
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Gillings School Pitch Competition: Round Two
Come watch teams of Gillings social entrepreneurs pitch their innovations on Monday, November 2 at 6 p.m., and join in the audience vote to help choose who moves on to the final round of the virtual Gillings School Pitch Competition. Take your mind off the election for an hour. Judges selected the eight teams that... Read more »
Mindfulness Self-Compassion Sessions
In this time that is so challenging for all of us, take a few moments to nurture yourself. UNC's Well-Being Program, in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry, is offering free virtual 20-minute mindfulness sessions to reduce stress and foster strength and resilience. 8:00 a.m. – Tuesday, Thursday 12:15 p.m. – Monday, Wednesday, Friday 4:00... Read more »
Mindfulness Self-Compassion Sessions
In this time that is so challenging for all of us, take a few moments to nurture yourself. UNC's Well-Being Program, in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry, is offering... Read more »
Methods for Cross Cultural Research Short Course
This course is focused on designing and implementing social science research cross-culturally, with a particular emphasis on collecting interview data. In this course, participants will consider different definitions of culture,... Read more »
Gentle Yoga
Join the Gillings School's Culture of Health for three 30-minute gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays - noon (30 minutes) Wednesdays - noon (30 minutes)... Read more »
Mindfulness Self-Compassion Sessions
In this time that is so challenging for all of us, take a few moments to nurture yourself. UNC's Well-Being Program, in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry, is offering... Read more »
Wind Down Wednesdays: Radical Self Care
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 Fall semester. Speaker: Dawna Jones... Read more »
Gentle Yoga
Join the Gillings School's Culture of Health for three 30-minute gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays - noon (30 minutes) Wednesdays - noon (30 minutes) Wednesdays - 5:15 p.m. (45 minutes) Please contact rcerny@email.unc.edu if you would like to join a class.
Mindfulness Self-Compassion Sessions
In this time that is so challenging for all of us, take a few moments to nurture yourself. UNC's Well-Being Program, in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry, is offering... Read more »
Conducting Cross Cultural Surveys Short Course
This course will provide an introduction to survey research methods for designing multinational and multicultural surveys. It begins with an overview of the field of comparative surveys. This will summarize their history and discuss some unique design features and implementation challenges inherent in their design and implementation. The second section discusses quality and risk management... Read more »
Estimation and inference on individualized treatment rule in observational data
Dr. Yingqi Zhao is the recipient of the UNC Biostatistics 2020 James. E. Grizzle Alumni Award. Dr. Zhao earned her PhD. in 2012. With the goal of improving patient outcomes, her work focuses on developing novel statistical and machine learning methods for personalized medicine, dynamic treatment regimes, disease screening and surveillance, clinical trial design, and... Read more »
Mindfulness Self-Compassion Sessions
In this time that is so challenging for all of us, take a few moments to nurture yourself. UNC's Well-Being Program, in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry, is offering free virtual 20-minute mindfulness sessions to reduce stress and foster strength and resilience. 8:00 a.m. – Tuesday, Thursday 12:15 p.m. – Monday, Wednesday, Friday 4:00... Read more »
COVID-19: Effects on Education Interprofessional Event
Join the Student Executive Council of the Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice on Thursday, Nov. 5 from 6-7:30 p.m. for an exciting interprofessional event. Hear a brief presentation from two experts from the School of Education, followed by breakout sessions to explore the impact that COVID-19 has had on K-12 public education and how... Read more »
Dissertation Defense: Dirk Davis
You are invited to attend the public dissertation defense of Dirk Davis, doctoral candidate in health behavior, titled "How Health Navigation Affects Mental Health: A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study with Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men Living with HIV in Guatemala." The defense is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 6 from 9-10... Read more »
Bayesian Clinical Trial Design
On Nov. 6 from 10:30 am - noon, presenter Joeseph Ibrahim, PhD, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics, will speak on Bayesian sample size determination for a clinical trial in the presence of historical data that inform the treatment effect. He will discuss a broadly applicable, simulation-based methodology that provides a framework for calibrating the informativeness... Read more »
Faculty Lunch & Learn: Seeking Funding from Foundations and Corporations
Please join Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations Mary Beth Knight, PhD, and fellow faculty members to learn more about the process of seeking research and related funds from private... Read more »
Mindfulness Self-Compassion Sessions
In this time that is so challenging for all of us, take a few moments to nurture yourself. UNC's Well-Being Program, in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry, is offering free virtual 20-minute mindfulness sessions to reduce stress and foster strength and resilience. 8:00 a.m. – Tuesday, Thursday 12:15 p.m. – Monday, Wednesday, Friday 4:00... Read more »
Department of Nutrition Seminar: Careers Outside Academia
Nikki A. Ford, PhD, senior director of nutrition at Hass Avocado Board, will give a presentation titled "The Avocado Nutrition Center: Working for a Quasi-Federal Organization." Registration required.