Usability testing allows in-depth evaluation of how respondents & interviewers interact with questionnaires, particularly web & mobile surveys. A respondent may understand the survey question & response options, but may... Read more »
This 5-hour (1/23/24 and 1/25/24; 1pm – 3:30pm each day) course will be offered online only. Attendance is required – this course will not be recorded. This course introduces students to Stata and data management. It is tailored for beginners and researchers who want to learn how to manage data more effectively. Each day, the... Read more »
Map the System is an initiative of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, partnering with educational institutions around the world. Students select a social, environmental, economic or health issue they care about in their local community. No experience in Systems Thinking is necessary. All Carolina students can get involved! Attend this information and working session... Read more »
The purpose of the lecture is to inspire, interrogate, and explore the ideas at the nexus of medicine, nursing, and public health, and to spur actions that move these ideas forward together. The Columbia Street Lecture is inspired by the main north/south corridor through campus. Columbia Street separates the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public... Read more »
Join WHL for the 2024 Womxn in Healthcare Leadership Symposium, Authentic Leadership: Bridging Expectations and Realities. The keynote speaker will be Katie Eimers, MSEd. The panel discussion will be moderated by Gretchen Bellamy, JD, LLM with panelists, Danica Patterson, MHA, Minni Marwaha, MHA, MBA, and Lynne Fiscus, MD, MPH. RSVP at the registration webpage. If... Read more »
Unlock grant writing success with our dynamic workshop. Join us for a dynamic 2-hour session where you'll master techniques and receive expert guidance to draft impactful significance and innovation sections for your grants. Engage in interactive exercises, learn specific techniques, and understand the why and how behind them. Elevate your skills swiftly with hands-on practice.... Read more »
Learn more about the UNC-CH Office of Interprofessional Educational and Practice's award-winning program, The Rural Interprofessional Health Initiative (RIPHI). The Office of IPEP was awarded the 2023 Excellence in Interprofessional... Read more »
Mixed methods research (MMR) refers to research design & implementation that combines qualitative & quantitative data collection and/or analysis strategies. This course discusses best practices, through the review of exemplars... Read more »
This course is being offered in collaboration between the Odum Institute and the Center for Urban & Regional Studies. This course, led by the Carolina Drone Lab, will cover drone data collection, planning, and analysis. Attendees will be introduced to: mission planning, creating automated flights for data capture, processing software for drone imagery (Pix4dMapper), and... Read more »
This course is being offered in collaboration between the Odum Institute and the Center for Urban & Regional Studies. This course, led by the Carolina Drone Lab, will cover drone data collection, planning, and analysis. Attendees will be introduced to: mission planning, creating automated flights for data capture, processing software for drone imagery (Pix4dMapper), and... Read more »
This session provides interactive dialogue about the transference of trauma, and subsequent compassion fatigue that is common in higher education settings. Join us to discuss resilience skills to over come... Read more »
Meetings moderated by LMCC Co-Directors Paul Blom and Mindy Buchanan-King, both of whom are PhD students and Teaching Fellows in UNC's Department of English and Comparative LiteratureThe Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) at Carolina is an informal reading and working group of graduate and professional students (but open to the entire Carolina community) who... Read more »
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. Contact PreMier with questions.
Join Gillings Global Health for a panel discussion with four Gillings School international student alumni to hear about their experience navigating the United States job market as an international student. They will share their advice on job search strategies with current Gillings international students. Contact Naya Villarreal with questions.
This course will be offered ONLINE. It will not be recorded as there are in-class activities. This is a 4 hour course. Description: Qualtrics is a powerful browser-based web-survey tool. It is available to UNC Chapel Hill faculty, staff, and students, for UNC-related projects. Qualtrics allows users to build complex surveys, distribute them, and analyze the... Read more »
Dr. Mushtaque Chowdhury is the former Vice Chair of BRAC, the largest and among the most celebrated non-governmental organization globally. Previously, he was its Executive Director, founding Director of the... Read more »
This course will be offered online only. Attendance is required – this course will not be recorded. Methods for Cross-Cultural Research is a 2.5 hour short-course focused on designing and... Read more »
Join PlayMakers Repertory Company + the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health for "Every Brilliant Thing," a special health and wellness initiative in partnership with Student Affairs at the University... Read more »
The Dissertation Structure, Organization, and Completion workshop will focus on a pivotal aspect of doctoral degree completion, the dissertation proposal. Each component of the dissertation proposal defense will be discussed as well as strategies to ensure a successful outcome of this signal event. Workshop participants will learn how academic scholars present research focusing heavily on... Read more »
David Williams is the Norman Professor of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. An internationally recognized authority on social influences on health, he has been invited to keynote scientific conferences in Europe, Africa, Australia, the Middle East, South America, the Caribbean... Read more »
This course is being offered in collaboration between the Odum Institute and the Center for Urban & Regional Studies. This course offers a broad introduction into the use of geospatial data in data science applications. The course materials will be built for non-geospatial professionals who find themselves needing to use geospatial data effectively. Contact Jill... Read more »
Join us for 10-15 minutes to complete the student survey. Your valuable feedback will help us make Gillings a better place for students like you! Survey responses will remain confidential and will be used only for implementing new initiatives, identifying and addressing challenges. Complete the survey and receive a valentine's day treat. Contact Lateesha Watkins... Read more »
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.
Please join the Gillings Research Office for our International Travel and Teleworking Q&A. They will discuss the relevant policies and procedures for faculty, staff and students who wish to do... Read more »
The second annual Global Health Scholars Symposium is scheduled for Friday, February 16, starting in Bioinformatics Room 1131. This is a hybrid event presented by the Institute for Global Health... Read more »
During this FREE walk-in tax clinic, certified volunteers will assist taxpayers in preparing and filing their tax returns.
This course will cover topics beyond the scope of the Introductory to Qualtrics short course. We will take a deeper dive into Survey Flow features including embedded data, customizing the... Read more »
This 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... Read more »
The Health Sciences Library is hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon focused on mental health. UNC students are invited to learn about and practice editing Wikipedia pages, explore health information resources, and... Read more »
Unlock the potential for your research with the SPIN Database! Learn how to navigate the world's largest funding opportunities database. Learn to: - Customize searches for your investigative field or... Read more »
Food drivers will be responsible for transporting our food donations from CJ's Cupboard OR Duke Campus Farm to SHAC for patients to obtain free of cost. We encourage those who... Read more »
Please join Gillings Academic Affairs and Gillings Global Health to hear about the changing landscape and process of moving from a non-STEM designated program to a STEM-designated program, along with... Read more »
Engage offers networking opportunities for alumni and students alike. Held the day before the Minority Health Conference, the event was originally launched as “Re-Engage” to strengthen connections between the Gillings School and its alumni community.
The Minority Health Conference, 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... Read more »
This is a full-day, intensive online interactive course focused on using the Dataverse Application Programming Interface (API) to interact with data archived in a Dataverse-based repository. The session will be... Read more »
UNC APPLES invite you to join FlowForward on a campus walk as we embark on a mission to make a positive change within our community. In an effort to promote... Read more »
Come join NC FIELD & UNC’s Environmental Justice Action Research Clinic (EJ Clinic) for an interactive session focused on farmworkers’ health. In this session, you will learn more about the... Read more »
Interested in the MRT-TI Program? Come join us to hear from the program director, Catherine Sullivan, and current students enrolled in MRT-TI to learn more about the program and the... Read more »
The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and RTI International invites students, faculty and staff to join the annual PHield Trip! Please note: A bus will depart Gillings at... Read more »
This one-day workshop will provide a hands-on, guided introduction to working with US Census data using tidycensus in R. The course will focus on using geographically-referenced demographic and socioeconomic data... Read more »
Human-centered design is an essential tool that ensures that community partners play a key role in generating and testing the innovative ideas that lead to desirable, feasible and viable solutions... Read more »
Dr. Phillips broad research area is understanding and supporting the HIV continuum of care. Her research to date has investigated the impact of mobility and care transitions on adherence and... Read more »
This series will cover the 7 Dimensions of Wellness: emotional, physical, occupational, social, intellectual, environmental and financial. This session is the intellectual session. Reflect on setting and improving your boundaries,... Read more »
Come learn about the Alcoa aluminum company’s discriminatory labor and waste management practices in this interactive panel discussion highlighting the Concerned Citizens of West Badin’s advocacy and organizing efforts against environmental racism. Refreshments will be provided. Co-hosted by: UNC Environmental Justice Action Research Clinic, NCEJN, CCWBC, UNC Rural & UNC Engagement Week. Contact Lindsay Savelli... Read more »
Alcoa aluminum company's labor and waste management practices in Badin, NC discriminated against and targeted Black union workers and residents, causing environmental, health, and economic harm. Join the Concerned Citizens of West Badin, NC Environmental Justice Network and UNC EJ Clinic for an interactive panel discussion on this topic on February 28 at the Stone... Read more »
Meetings moderated by LMCC Co-Directors Paul Blom and Mindy Buchanan-King, both of whom are PhD students and Teaching Fellows in UNC's Department of English and Comparative LiteratureThe Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) at UNC is an informal reading and working group of graduate and professional students (but open to the entire UNC community) who... Read more »
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.
Join Innovate Carolina on Monday, March 4th from 12:30-1:30pm in Carolina Innovation Junction Room 151 (or via Zoom!) for a Carolina Seminar on Innovation for the Public Good featuring Amy... Read more »
This course is focused on an introduction to data analytics followed by hands-on exercises. It is tailored for beginners and researchers who want to learn how to perform data analytics in a visual programming environment. We will specifically concentrate on one aspect of data analytics called supervised predictive learning. Two types of predictive learning will... Read more »
Title: Implementation sustainability: Institutionalizing maternal health projects through public policy in Ghana This dissertation seeks to develop theory around institutionalization through public policy in low-resource settings, using the case of... Read more »
Happening March 18th-22nd! Spend the week learning from experts about the job search process during four virtual sessions. End the week at an in-person Global Health Career Networking Event featuring top global health employers! Sessions: The Job Search for International Students, Interviewing from the Recruiters Perspective, Networking for the Job You Want, Career Trajectories -... Read more »
Panelists will share their experiences using applicable research examples (e.g., search and screenings, data extraction and quality assessment, library resources).
This course is intended for individuals with research questions that can be answered using multivariate time series data/intensive longitudinal data. Examples of such data include daily diary data; data collected via self-report through ecological momentary sampling (ESM); passive data from cell phones; and other psychophysiological data such as MRI data or heart rate data. Contact... Read more »
Join the Gillings School Humanitarian Health Initiative and professionals in the humanitarian sector on Thursday, March 21 from 1–2 p.m. to learn about various careers in the humanitarian section. The panelists will speak on their current and former humanitarian work, discuss their careers in the sector and answer questions from attendees. This event is hybrid and will... Read more »
This talk will explore what the future holds if bioethics continues its evolution to become a field that embraces systemic, collective-level challenges; has a global scale and focus; emphasizes human flourishing; and seeks to have increased societal impact. Vardit Ravitsky is the President & CEO of The Hastings Center, an independent, nonpartisan bioethics research institute.... Read more »
Like Coffee and Yoga? Check out this session! Coffee breaks in the workplace serve as more than a quick fix for midday slumps, increased alertness, and productivity. The practice also produces a mentally healthy work environment by reducing stress and burnout and increases a sense of belongingness by building community with colleagues. Yoga, a form... Read more »
Join the Academy Health Student Chapter's Policy Day centered on the healthcare workforce. Dive into the complexities and challenges of workforce development and policy-making, guided by experts and legislators. Key Note speaker: Dr. Erin Fraher Deputy Director for Policy Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research Panelists: Maggie Sauer Director of Office of Rural... Read more »
RSVP In Person by visiting the Scientific Symposium in Honor of Dr. James Swenberg webpage. If you are interested in attending via zoom, visit the Zoom Webinar RSVP webpage. Contact Rhoda Cerny with questions.
