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
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
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 required.
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.
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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, how research is itself a cultural practice, what perspectives and analytical approaches can be employed in cross-cultural research, as well as best practices in designing... Read more »
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.
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 »
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 »
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.
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 sponsors; specific strategies for success; and the UNC resources available to support your efforts in this process. Discover actionable steps toward diversifying your funding portfolio... Read more »
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 »
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.
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.
Please join the Implementation Science Student Group for an interactive fireside chat with guest Dr. Lauren Franz from Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development. They will explore the application of implementation science to address the gap from research to practice for early autism intervention globally and locally. Themes will include applications of implementation science,... Read more »
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 »
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute’s Carolina Consortium for Human Development (CCHD) invites you to the Fall 2020 Cairns Capstone Lecture. Dr. Edith Chen will present Socioeconomic Disparities in Health: Costs of Upward Mobility? on Monday, Nov. 9 from 2-3:15 p.m. Each semester, the CCHD celebrates its proseminar series with the Robert B. Cairns Capstone Lecture... Read more »
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 »
ESE Centennial Seminar Series Speaker: Ku McMahan, MPH 2007, PhD 2011 Environmental Sciences and Engineering, was recently named recipient of the Distinguished Young Alumni Award. Ku serves as team lead for Securing Water for Food: A Grand Challenge for Development at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a $35M partnership between USAID, South... Read more »
During this workshop we will discuss the following with implications for our practice as scholars: 1. How to refer to others and be critical and thoughtful of our language use (terms and generalizations) 2. How to question what is being said and what is left unsaid (e.g. mitigating discursive erasures). 3. How to recognize and... Read more »
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 »
Participants in this workshop will learn how multiple imputation can solve problems in these areas, and they will gain a conceptual and practical basis for applying multiple imputation in their statistical work. The course will have an online format spread over two half days. The first half-day will cover general methodologies, and the second half-day... Read more »
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.
Dr. Dilshad Jaff is the first Gillings Humanitarian Fellow. He will share his current experience, challenges and solutions to working in the field. Dr. Jaff completed his Master of Public Health at Gillings and continued at the school until July 2019 when leaving to return to the field as a humanitarian physician. He continues as... Read more »
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 »
The Race, Racism, and Racial Equity (R3) Symposium, hosted by the University Office for Diversity and Inclusion, is a series of virtual events that brings together scholars and researchers from across campus to share their work with Carolina and the broader community. The second in the R3 series, “Cultural Industry, Techno-capitalism, and Labor: The Mediated... Read more »
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: Dr. Greg... Read more »
The session is a great chance to learn about the experiences of minority entrepreneurs by talking directly with startup founders who are historically underrepresented in this sector and who want to build relationships with minority students. You’ll also discover how to tap into a campus network and community for Black entrepreneurs that the student-led Black... Read more »
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.
The Public Health Student Leadership Association presents “Leadership in Public Health”. This virtual panel will feature six Gillings School of Global Public Health alumni from diverse backgrounds. Join them for a virtual discussion and Q&A session on Nov. 11 at 5:30 p.m. Panelists include: Dr. Vaughn Upshaw, Panel Moderator, Professor and Leadership in Practice Concentration... Read more »
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 »
Dr. Sandra Safo's research interests are in developing statistical methods and computational tools to help identify risk factors for complex diseases: multivariate statistical methods, statistical learning (including classification, discriminant analysis, association studies), data integration and feature selection methods for high dimensional data; currently integrative analysis of genomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics to help elucidate the complex... Read more »
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 demonstrated. This is not a course on software, but rather a course on the concepts and uses of logistic regression. Registration required. For more information,... Read more »
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 »
Being an entrepreneur is all about connecting and collaborating, so why not get started now? This session is open to all UNC-Chapel Hill students and hosted by Innovate Carolina and University Career Services. You’ll have the chance to talk directly with startups that are looking to meet innovative Carolina students who have an interest in... Read more »
10th Annual UNC Business of Healthcare Conference: Better Together: Improving Interconnectivity in the Healthcare Ecosystem Join us as we discuss the complexity of the health care ecosystem and how innovation and interconnectivity are necessary to build a more robust and flexible system. In addition to two impactful keynotes, session topics include: How COVID-19 Exposed Social... Read more »
Dr. Margaret Hicken of the University of Michigan will present Landscapes of racial dispossession and control: Cultural and structural racism and population health inequities. The Social Epidemiology Research Program is co-sponsoring this event with the Carolina Population Center as part of the Social Epidemiology Program Seminar Series. More information. Register.
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 »