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... 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.... Read more »
How do we know what we are measuring when we have instruments developed in English for English speakers translated into Spanish? Are we measuring the same constructs in Latinx communities? How does the translation process affect the psychometrics of validated measures? What are potential micro-aggressions in multilingual research? What do we need to consider for managing multilingual... Read more »
Please join Nutrition Coalition to make thank-you cards for the RDs and nutrition educators at the Gillings School. This event is sponsored by Nutrition Coalition. Please contact nutritioncoalitionunc@gmail.com.
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 »
Sean Sylvia, assistant professor in the department of health policy and management, will present a talk titled "Early Childhood Development in Rural China: Evidence from the Qinling Cohort Study." Food and light refreshments will be provided. This event is sponsored by the Carolina Asia Center. Please contact Shuyi Lin with any questions.
The UNC-CH student chapter of the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology (SISPE) and the Graduate and Professional Student Federation will be hosting a career panel inviting a diverse group of panelists representing many employers of Gillings alumni. There will be a reception, with food catered by Med Deli, following the career panel so students may network... 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 »
This Odum Institue course focuses on best practices for writing questions and visual design for surveys, with a focus on holistic designs in which question wording and visual design work together to produce good measurement. It draws on the empirical literature to provide practical guidelines for questionnaire design. The course will also cover the application... Read more »
Dr. Alex Rowe, medical epidemiologist and chief of the Strategic & Applied Science Unit in the Malaria Branch of the CDC will present a talk entitled "Effectiveness of strategies to improve health care provider performance in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC): a systematic review". The talk will focus on the Health Care Provider Performance Review... Read more »
Gang Li, PhD, professor of biostatistics and biomathematics at UCLA, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled "A Scalable L0-Based Sparse Regression Method for Large-Scale Competing Risks Data." Abstract: This paper develops a scalable L0-based simultaneous variable selection and parameter estimation method for the popular Fine-Gray (1999) proportional subdistribution hazards (PSH) model for large competing risks time-to-event data via the... Read more »
Cara V. James, PhD, director of the Office of Minority Health at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will present a talk titled "Achieving Health Equity through Increased Understanding, Sustainable Solutions and Collective Action." James, who earned a doctorate in health policy from Harvard University, is a nationally recognized expert in health disparities, health... Read more »
Safe Zone is a program designed to create a network of visible allies to people who identify as part of the diverse LGBTIQA+ community. The four-hour educational session provides information and resources related to sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. Please register online.
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 »
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 »
National Public Health Week is a celebration of what makes public health great! Join Dean Rimer and the Gillings Student Government Association as we celebrate our school’s impact on public health across the nation and around the world. Stop by grab a locopop and freshly popped popcorn and chat with school leadership! Don’t forget to snap... 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 »
Students, faculty and staff are invited to join the Culture of Health team for free yoga classes. Beginners are welcome and mats are provided!
If you have an interest in learning about the advances public health professionals have made in the North Carolina opioid crisis through interprofessional practice and collaboration, join us for this panel and round table discussion. This panel will consist of employees within UNC’s Injury Prevention Research Center and the NC Division of Public Health who... 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 »
Part of being productive is knowing when to take a break! Come have coffee and cookies, do some crafts and learn about graduate and professional student groups (like Stigma Free Carolina) and campus offices (including ARS, CAPS, Campus Recreation, EOC, ODOS, Student Wellness, Writing Center, The Graduate School) that want to support your health, well-being,... Read more »
Please join Carolina BEBES for an in depth discussion about the current maternal mortality and morbidity and health equity crisis in the US. The panelists will include an interdisciplinary group of health providers (midwife, lactation consultant, ob/gyn) for a discussion about the definition, importance, and current obstacles to cooperative care in the perinatal health setting.... Read more »
Stop by the Atrium to grab some coffee and a bagel and learn about ways to get involved in rural health research and community outreach. Sponsored by the Gillings Student Government Association. This event is part of National Public Health Week.
Introduction to Multilevel Modeling is a two-day workshop focused on the application and interpretation of multilevel models, also known as hierarchical linear models and mixed models, for the analysis of nested data structures. This workshop will provide an introduction to the application of multilevel models with nested data, including software implementation in SAS, SPSS and... Read more »
Join Dr. Mark Holmes, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and Director of the North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center, and Dr. George Pink, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and Deputy Director of the NC Rural Health Research Program, to discuss the impact of public health in... 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 »
The core of well-being in a community may rely on the capacity of that community to provide the resources and social support members need to navigate times of challenge and change. This session, lead by Dr. Dawn X. Henderson, will guide participants through a facilitated dialogue on the tenets of a sense of community, membership,... 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 »
Join the Gillings Research, Innovation and Global Solutions Office for a Q&A with President and CEO of InterHealth International Inc., Pape Gaye! Lunch will be provided. Sponsored by the Gillings Research, Innovation and Global Solutions Office and the Gillings Student Government Association. This event is part of National Public Health Week.
Please join us for the 3rd Annual Environmental Justice Lecture – Inspired by Steve Wing: The People’s Professor. We are excited to welcome Dr. Scott Laney, Epidemiologist with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Dr. Laney’s recent work has focused on coal miner health. The title of his lecture is, "Resurgence of... Read more »
Jan Hannig, PhD, professor of statistics and operations research at UNC Chapel Hill, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled, "Data Integration Via Analysis of Subspaces (DIVAS)." A major challenge in... Read more »
Come help assemble naloxone kits and learn about NC legislative initiatives addressing the opioid epidemic with the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition. This event is sponsored by the North Carolina Attorney General's Collegiate Council on Opioid Misuse, the Public Health Leadership Student Organization (PHLSA), and the Student Pharmacists Opioid Misuse Prevention (StOMP).
Are you a Gillings student or post-doc doing innovative global health work? Is your practicum or research focused on solving important public health challenges around the world? Are you involved in a local initiative or study with global implications or ties? If so, apply to speak at this year's GillingsX event and share your work... Read more »
Join the Office of Technology Commercialization at the next Carolina Innovation Seminar to hear the latest news about the Eshelman Institute for Innovation. Learn how the Institute is accelerating ideas that lead to... Read more »
Please save the date for the 10th anniversary aelebration of the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases. Special guests: Richard Chaisson, MD, professor of medicine, epidemiology and international... Read more »
Are you passionate about reducing your global footprint?: Stop by the Gillings Student Government table in the Atrium to take the Plastic Pledge, answer some climate change trivia and pick up your own reusable straw! Sponsored by the Gillings Student Government Association. This event is part of National Public Health Week.
