Advancing Health Equity in North Carolina
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. How do we improve health outcomes and increase access to... Read more »
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42nd Annual Minority Health Conference — Body & Soul The Past, Present and Future of Health Activism
This conference qualifies for 8 hours of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirements for faculty and staff. The Minority Health Conference, which is the largest and longest-running student-led health conference in the country, aims to raise awareness around minority health and mobilize students, academics and community members to take action for... Read more »
Where innovation and introspection meet: a guide for managing stress as a startup founder
Join KickStart Venture Services for the next edition of the KickStart Presents webinar series. “Where innovation and introspection meet: a guide for managing stress as a startup founder” will include... Read more »
It is Never too Early to Think About Statistical Leadership
Dr. Richard Zink spent 17 years in and around medical product development at a real-world data company (Target RWE) where he led data management and statistics in the analysis and... Read more »
Structures of Inequality: Moving Forward on College Access
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School faculty and staff inclusive excellence training requirement. In the fall, Honors Carolina kicked off an ongoing examination... Read more »
Home Environments for Wellness Book Club and Peer Support Pod
Our home environment plays an important role in our overall well-being. Let’s reassess the state of our home environments and create more inspired spaces that support our mental health and... Read more »
Gillings Employer Spotlight
This event, hosted by the Office of Student Affairs, will highlight a public health employer. Register on Handshake.
Design and Analysis of Social Experiments
This course will present the conceptual underpinnings of treatment effect estimation under random assignment and complement those underpinnings with a discussion of frequently encountered challenges in the context of social... Read more »
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 »
Racism, Chronic Disease and the Social Determinants of Health
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. Join the NCCU Department of Public Health Education on... Read more »
Adopting a Population Health Strategy to Aggressively Reduce Cardiovascular Risk: It Works in Rural Communities Too!
Presenter Sam Cykert, MD, professor UNC School of Medicine Sam Cykert, MD, will describe how implementation of the Heart Health Now study affected cardiovascular risk when applied to high-risk patients... Read more »
Feeding Two Birds with One Scone: Connecting Air Pollution, Climate Change, Energy and Health
All are invited to the weekly Environmental Sciences and Engineering In-House Seminar Series, which continues on Zoom on March 3 at 12:20 p.m. with Dr. Jason West presenting “Feeding Two... Read more »
Data Quality in Online Surveys: Design and Diagnostics
Online surveys now represent a large segment of the research on public attitudes and behaviors. In this workshop, participants will cover metrics for evaluating common data quality issues and strategies... Read more »
MRT-TI Info Session
In this info session, participants will learn about the Mary Rose Tully Training Initiative through the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CGBI). This program is a Pathway 2 Lactation Consultant training... Read more »
Wind Down Wednesday – Mental Fitness Series
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 »
Statistical methods for single-cell and spatial RNA-seq
Dr. Christina Kendziorski's research concerns statistical methods and software for computational biology and genomics. Her group develops statistical methods and software for the analysis of data from high-throughput genomics experiments... Read more »
Logistic Regression
This online short course provides an introduction to logistic regression. Model specification, identification, estimation, hypothesis-testing, and interpretation of results are covered. Software to estimate these models is discussed, but not... Read more »
Home Environments for Wellness Book Club and Peer Support Pod
Our home environment plays an important role in our overall well-being. Let’s reassess the state of our home environments and create more inspired spaces that support our mental health and... Read more »
A Road Trip Extended: Fingerprinting Chemicals in the Air From the UNC Smog Chamber to Chinese Megacities
Environmental Sciences and Engineering Centennial Seminar Series Speaker: Jian Zhen Yu (PhD, 1996) Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering 2020 Distinguished Alumna Dr. Yu is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Division of Environment at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and is director of HKUST’s Environmental Central Facility and... Read more »
Investigational New Drug Workshop
This workshop will: • Define an investigational drug, including off-label use of FDA approved drugs • Provide guidance on determining when the IND regulations apply to research studies • Discuss... Read more »
HPM’s Womxn in Healthcare Leadership Coffee Chat: Modern Leadership
Approximately once a month, the Womxn in Healthcare Leadership student group hosts hourly “Coffee Chat” sessions that bring in guest speakers from around the country to discuss their experiences with pressing issues facing womxn in healthcare. This month they will be discussing balancing work, family and other stressors in the lives of healthcare professionals with... Read more »
Farm to School: Early Childhood and Primary Education
Join Gillings MPH/RD students as they host experts from different areas of the food system as part of the inaugural Farm to Institution Speaker Series, held under the Food for All Initiative at UNC-Chapel Hill. Whether you're interested in food production, preparation, access and equity, or education, this series is for you. Many organizations will... Read more »
Health Policy Day 2021
This year's theme is "Health Policy & Emergency Preparedness: Are We Ready for the Next Crisis?" Dr. Brandy N. Kelly Pryor of the Humana Foundation will deliver the keynote address:... Read more »
Dissertation Defense: Hailey James
Health policy and management doctoral candidate Hailey James will defend her dissertation work on Friday, March 5. Her dissertation is titled, "What happens when hospitals no longer have a volume incentive? Examining the Maryland Global Budget Revenue program." Watch online.
Nutrition Seminar: Novel Interleukins Contribute to Lipid and Glucose Dysregulation in African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes
Dr. K. Sean Kimbro, Associate Professor at North Carolina Central University, will give a presentation titled "Novel Interleukins Contribute to Lipid and Glucose Dysregulation in African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes.” Contact john.easterbrook@unc.edu with questions. Registration required.
Expanding Health Care in Rural Central India: Learning from the Leaders of JSS
Interested in healthcare, public health or improving global population health? Join the AID India UNC-CH speaker event on Sunday, March 7 at 10 a.m. JSS is a people's health support group dedicated to providing low-cost and effective healthcare services in rural India. Hear from the current leaders of JSS at the event, all of whom... Read more »
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 like to join a class.
Considering Development in Indian Country: A Look with the Cherokee Indians
On Monday, March 8, Dr. Adam Hoffman joins FPG’s Carolina Consortium on Human Development to present "Considering Development in Indian Country: A Look with the Cherokee Indians" as part of their Spring 2021 series on Culture & Developmental Science: Considering Context, Culture, and Intersectional Approaches! Join them Monday afternoons from 2:00 – 3:15 p.m. (EST)... Read more »
Cancer Outcomes Research Program Round Table: Diversity in Mentorship
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training for faculty and staff. Please join the Cancer Outcomes Research Program on Tuesday, March... Read more »
Pandemics Then, Now & Future: Implications for Public Health Education
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. Join the NCCU Department of Public Health Education on... Read more »
Bringing a Racial Equity Focus to Health Informatics: Panel Discussion
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. The Carolina Health Informatics Program along with the Health Sciences Library invites you to participate in a two-part event intended to help health informatics students and researchers at UNC incorporate a racial equity focus... Read more »
Gillings Game Night
Gillings Game Night Event Series is a virtual social hour hosted by Natiaya Neal, Student Affairs Events Manager. Please register to receive the zoom links. All winners will receive newly branded Gillings swag items! In order to ship prizes following game night, please make sure to submit a DELIVERY address when you register. Email Natiaya... Read more »
Machine Learning, Kevin Bacon and Other Things I’ve Found Useful for Filling Chemical Risk Data Gaps
All are invited to the weekly Environmental Science and Engineering In-House Seminar Series which continues virtually on March 10 at 12:20 pm with Dr. John Wambaugh presenting “Machine Learning, Kevin Bacon and Other Things I’ve Found Useful for Filling Chemical Risk Data Gaps.” The series asks speakers to tailor their presentation for a general audience... Read more »
Wind Down Wednesday – Mental Fitness Series
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 stress and anxiety low during the semester. Jan. 27: Radical Self Care... Read more »
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From Pilot Data to Federal Funding: Lessons from Pilot and Feasibility Program Award Winners
The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) Program presents a virtual symposium featuring keynote speaker and P&F awardee Dr. Penny Gordon-Larsen and presentations from P&F award winners... Read more »
Home Environments for Wellness Book Club and Peer Support Pod
Our home environment plays an important role in our overall well-being. Let’s reassess the state of our home environments and create more inspired spaces that support our mental health and... Read more »
Distrustful of Science: How the Tuskegee Study Changed a Durham Resident’s Life and Legacy
This event qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. In the late 1960’s, Bill Jenkins was at his first job at the federal National Center for Health Statistics when he found out about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. He and a small group of... Read more »
Investigational Device Exemption Workshop
This workshop will: • Discuss FDA’s approach to regulation of devices in clinical studies and for marketing • Provide guidance on when the IDE regulations apply and discuss possible exemptions... Read more »
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 »
Mitigating Misogyny: Theorizing Digital Age Feminist Activism
This event qualifies for 40 minutes of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. Mitigating Misogyny: Theorizing Digital Age Feminist Activism with DEB AIKAT, Ph. D. When: 12:05 p.m. – 12:30 p.m., March 15 (Monday) Where: Kirkland Auditorium (limited seating), UNC-CH Adams School of Dentistry & Livestream DOCSpeaks... Read more »
Causes and Consequences of Memory Development: Perspectives Through a Cultural Lens
On March 15, Dr. Qi Wang joins FPG’s Carolina Consortium on Human Development to present Causes and Consequences of Memory Development: Perspectives Through a Cultural Lens as part of our... Read more »
COVID-19 Vaccines: Making an Informed Decision
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. Join the NCCU Department of Public Health Education on Tuesdays a 10:40 a.m. to receive empowering health information. March 16: Dr. Lisa Paulin and Dr. Tianduo Zhang - "COVID-19 Vaccines: Making an Informed Decision"... Read more »
Wisdom in the Room: Engaging Youth as Stakeholders
Join NC TraCS for the next Wisdom in the Room, a conference call series providing a forum for those interested in community-engaged research. This month’s focus is on engaging youth... Read more »
Spring Interprofessional Social Event
Come join the Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice's Student Executive Committee for an evening of scavenger hunts and storytelling on Tuesday, March 16 from 6-7 p.m. on Zoom. This... Read more »