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 UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated work while traveling internationally and answer any questions you may have. Contact Jaime O'Brien with questions.
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 and Infectious Diseases and the Gillings School of Global Public Health. Medical and doctoral students, doctoral candidates, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty will share research... 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 End of Survey experience, Screen Out Management, and implementing randomization. We will explore methods of importing embedded data into your survey, sending information from one... 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 produce good measurement. It draws on the empirical literature to provide practical guidelines for questionnaire design and considers mixed-mode and mixed-device surveys. The course will... 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 summarize content in plain language for the public. Come for food, door prizes, and to meet students from different programs across campus! Please bring your... 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 project - Refine results with comprehensive filters - Save parameters for future use - Manage, edit, and delete saved searches with ease - Bookmark, export,... 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 have access to car and are interested to both drive and table on the same day, if possible! Drivers would be needed every Wednesday evening,... 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 an update on the school's steps thus far. All Gillings students are welcomed to share their concerns and questions regarding this process during the session.
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 action for change. The conference was founded and is led by students at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill. We are excited... 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 broken into to two segments: 1) we will cover the basics of what an API is, how it works and what it is used for,... 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 inclusivity and accessibility, UNC APPLES is conducting a survey of campus bathrooms to assess the availability of menstrual products. Contact Cynthia Tran with questions.
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 social determinants of farmworkers' health, their health needs and challenges, and the work that is been done to address them. There will have games, storytelling... 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 application process. Contact Catherine Sullivan with questions
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 8:30am and return by 2:00pm. This program, held on the RTI campus in the Research Triangle Park, includes:• Fireside chat on Maternal and Child Health... 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 from the decennial census and American Community Survey. Participants will learn how to acquire data, perform basic data preprocessing tasks, create basic visualizations, and perform... 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 to their most pressing problems. During this hands-on workshop participants will learn the basics of the IDEO design thinking model and how it has been... 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, plus other mindful activities and journaling prompts. Everyone is welcome. Registration is required for breakout activity rooms. Snacks will be provided. Contact Tiffany Edouard with... 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 Kryston, President of the Switchback Gear Collective. Switchback Gear Collective is a local, community-driven non-profit organization committed to advancing equity in outdoor spaces. Contact Betsy... 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 a maternal health implementation project in Ghana.The research will supply needed information to Ghanaian policymakers and lay important groundwork for future research into the factors... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read more »
Health Policy and Management doctoral candidate, Addie Coleman, will present her dissertation research, titled "Alcohol and substance use among American Indian/Alaska Native birthing people: A mixed methods study of punitive... Read more »
Join this virtual session to learn about the key characteristics, guidelines, and benefits of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) for enhancing intercultural learning and global skill building (for students and... Read more »
HPM PhD candidate, Prajwol Nepal, will present his dissertation research, titled, "Non-prescription antibiotics use among children in Nepal: Evidence and interventions in community settings." Contact Valerie Hooker with questions.
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This event will provide students with the resources available to practice interviewing. Interview etiquette and general tips to prepare for and navigate the interview process will be covered in this... Read more »
This event will be taking place on Tuesday, March 26th at 5 p.m. in 133 Rosenau and virtually over Zoom. "Health Under Fire" will include two interdisciplinary speakers in the Public Health field who will first discuss their different topics for 20 minutes each, then will participate in a combined discussion and Q&A for the... Read more »
Everybody eats. But how do we eat well, in a way that tastes good, keeps us healthy, and helps protect the planet? In this session, we will cover the current... Read more »
Next in the Innovate Carolina Founders Forum series is an interview with Dr. Alice Ammerman, Founder and CEO of Equiti Foods. After years of research into the food system, food insecurity and how to prevent chronic disease, nutrition professor Dr. Ammerman founded her company with the goal of providing local, affordable, and most importantly, nutritious,... Read more »
The HPM curriculum includes a combination of courses in public health and health policy and management, a summer internship, elective courses (including senior honors thesis and graduate-level options), and a year-long capstone experience. The curriculum emphasizes collaboration and application through multiple semester and year-long team projects, some with community partners. Students go through the program... Read more »
The April 2024 issue of Health Affairs focuses on the topic: “Perinatal Mental Health & Well-Being.” Building on the success of our October 2021 issue on perinatal mental health, the new issue expands the focus on equity, justice, and wellbeing. You are invited to join us on Wednesday, April 3, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Eastern), for a virtual... Read more »
Are you interested in careers in governmental public health? The Minority Student Caucus invites students, faculty and staff to participate in a panel discussion on the career opportunities within the NC Division of Public Health. Weather permitting, an in person networking opportunity will follow.
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.
This event will provide Gillings students the opportunity to network with Gillings alumni & employers. We hope Gillings students will put into practice networking skills & make meaningful connections at the event. This event will also provide all attendees the opportunity for a free professional headshot, hors d'oeuvres, & more. Professional dress is recommended. Registration... Read more »
Gillings PUBH 784 class will provide six booths at this year’s Expo. One booth will be featured in the Small Science Tent engaging young community members about the importance of nurturing gut health. Other booths will cover topics that include: health benefits of nature therapy; adolescent substance use; outdoor equity; food insecurity. Contact Lori Evarts... Read more »
The teaching and Learning Community of care presents their last two sessions, April 9-10 from Noon – 12:45 p.m. on Zoom. The topic will focus on the intersection of human... Read more »
Join the Sheps Center for the Grand Book Launch of Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State! In Equal Care, Seth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH, delves into the social mechanisms that connect injustice to poor health. He presents practical policies designed to create a system of social relations that ensures equal care... Read more »
Grab your lunch and join us for an exciting webinar on double machine learning, presented by Philipp Bach, PhD, MSc & Sven Klaaßen, PhD, MSc. Drs. Bach and Klaaßen are postdoctoral researchers at the University of Hamburg, Faculty of Business Administration, Institute of Statistics. Their research focuses on statistical methods for causal machine learning and... Read more »
"Innovating for health equity: human centered design, artificial intelligence and the future of public health" by Alessandra Bazzano MPH, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Social, Behavioral and Population Sciences and Director of Tulane Center of Excellence in Maternal Child Health (CEMCH) This combined speaker series features high-profile speakers that will inspire, educate and build community... Read more »
The Black Maternal Health Week Coordinating Committee is excited to announce an inaugural student-led week of events sponsored by the MCH department in recognition of Black Maternal Health Week 2024. In addition to a month-long diaper and wipe drive kicking off on April 1, All donations will go to Equity Before Birth, a community-based organization... Read more »
This seminar will focus on strategies to reimagine and decolonize global health training in the U.S and internationally. Dr. Deshira Wallace will discuss how MPH training and classroom-based learning in... Read more »
UNC-Women in Science and our co-sponsors are honored to invite you to our 9th Annual Spring Symposium, April 12 with our distinguished keynote speaker Dr. Shirley Paddock, a Senior VP at Syneos Health. The full day event additionally includes a career panel and two poster sessions! All are welcome to attend and present a poster... Read more »
This year’s lecture will feature Dr. Ashley Gripper who is active in food and land justice movements and works with urban and rural growers around the country, she will be giving a talk titled Community Solutions to Food Apartheid: Bridging activism, advocacy and academia. Contact Kristen Cowan with questions.
Join the UNC Nutrition Research Institute or a virtual Appetite for Life with guest speaker Dr. Alice Ammerman. She'll discuss Good Bowls, providing nutritious food to lower-income consumers, while creating economic opportunities for local farmers and food entrepreneurs. These bowls offer healthful, locally sourced ingredients, aiming to improve environmental, economic and social well-being in communities... Read more »
Join UNC Gillings Inclusive Excellence for a discussion about the Inclusive Excellence Action Plan. To register for the in-person session, visit https://tinyurl.com/26ubz4cn. The link for theo nline session is: https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5MV4-dO2TW6X3owUdA6oVA... Read more »
The ACLU of NC is hosting a premiere of our new short film, North Carolina's Abortion Story, on April 18th at 7PM at Varsity Theater in Chapel Hill. The 10-minute film explores the history of abortion in North Carolina, the modern movement for reproductive justice, and the impact of abortion bans on patients and providers.... Read more »
This course will be offered ONLINE. It will not be recorded as there are in-class activities. This is a 2 hour course.Behavioral researchers are often interested in change within-persons over time that may occur due to environmental phenomenon or during the course of an intervention. In some circumstances there is a question of both whether and... Read more »
The Gillings Student Mental Health and Well-being Task Force is hosting a movement challenge for the month of April with 4 weekly challenges - plus raffle prizes with Gilling's swag and wellbeing items for people who participate! Join here: https://forms.gle/ssDFrspqt4pNCC3D8 It's not too late to join, so feel free to share the registration form with... Read more »
This course will cover a number of unsupervised learning techniques for finding patterns and associations in Big Data. These include dimension reduction techniques such as principal components analysis and non-negative matrix factorization, clustering analysis and significance analysis, and network analysis with graphical models. The main emphasis will be on the analysis of real data sets... Read more »
The Vietnam Administration of HIV/AIDS Control of the Ministry of Health has led the effort to improve HIV care and prevention in Vietnam, including overseeing the adjustments necessary for a changing epidemic. In addition to the governmental response, Hanoi Medical University has been instrumental in leading research to support the HIV response in Vietnam. Lessons... Read more »
Faculty and Staff engaged in research are invited to come learn more about the updates to the NIH policy on foreign sub-awardee reporting, how to comply and how it may affect their research teams. Contact Jaime O'Brien with questions.
This course is being offered in collaboration between the Odum Institute and the Center for Urban & Regional Studies. This hands-on course will focus on the use of Google Earth Engine (GEE) for urban research applications. It will demonstrate how free and open-source satellite imagery can be utilized to map urban areas and urbanization trends... Read more »
Focus groups are commonly used to capture rich information about attitudes and beliefs. This class will prepare prospective students to organize and moderate focus groups. Students will learn the most appropriate uses of focus groups, how to segment and recruit audiences, how to develop a moderator’s guide, and how to moderate focus groups. The class... Read more »
The Employee Forum invites the Carolina community to the 36th annual Carolina Blood Drive, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 1 in the Smith Center. For 36 years, the Carolina Blood Drive has potentially impacted more than 120,000 lives through blood donations. Show you bleed Carolina blue. Free parking available or ride the bus... Read more »
Please join us for the Channing J. Der Annual Career Symposium on May 1, 2024 at 12:00 PM, featuring career-focused talks representing different career paths. This will be offered as a hybrid event at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Pagano Conference Room. Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees. For more information and to register,... Read more »
Please join the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center for the Channing J. Der Annual Career Symposium on May 1, 2024, featuring career-focused talks representing different career paths. This will be offered as a hybrid event. Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees. For more information and to register, please visit here. For questions, please email lccctraining@unc.edu.
Health Behavior Presents: Teaching Assistant Professor Candidate Naya Villarreal, MPH, is the Gillings Global Health Associate Director in the Global Health unit at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Ms. Villarreal manages schoolwide global health programming, including global fellowships, internships, and travel awards. Prior to joining the Gillings School, Ms. Villarreal worked at... Read more »
Jump start your summer practicum with this intro to time-saving tools and valuable research resources! Designed for MPH students completing literature reviews or research for a practicum, this Health Sciences Library workshop will cover advanced use of library resources, searching skills, citation management tools, and literature review methodologies. Plus, get one-on-one help with your project.... Read more »
Ready to boost your writing productivity? Join "Increasing Writing Productivity: Skills-Based Workshop for Scientific and Grant Writing." Gain insights into 9 key strategies to protect your time, maximize efficiency, and prioritize manuscripts. Don't miss out, reserve your spot now! Contact Traci Davis with questions.
Join Inclusive Excellence for their fifth annual and first in-person summer symposium. Contact Yesenia Merino with questions.
In this course, participants will learn how to keep track of the code they use in their research using the version control system Git and the collaboration platform GitHub. Git and Github are applicable to any text-based programming or analysis language, including R, Python, Stata, Julia, and others. Participants should create a github account at... Read more »
The UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center award ceremony will be held on Friday, June 21, from 3–4 p.m. in the Pagano Conference Room. This year's awardees, mentors and all are invited to honor the Joseph S. Pagano Award and Graduate Fellow Award in Basic Science awardees. Refreshments will be provided for in-person attendees. Please register... Read more »
Add Health is holding the 2024 Users Conference on Monday, June 17, and Tuesday, June 18, 2024 at the Rizzo Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Connect with other Add Health users and learn more about these rich data sets. Registration is now open. Add Health is also accepting abstracts for the 2024 Users Conference.... Read more »
PhD candidate in the Health Policy and Management Department, Xuejun (Eleanor) Liu will present her dissertation research, titled "Colorectal cancer: New screening technology, treatment patterns and medical cost." To join, visit the zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97748689278 To attend in person, go to 3005 Michael Hooker Research Center. Contact Valerie Hooker with questions.
Join UNC Lineberger for a virtual P01 Workshop. Topics include experience, lessons learned and best practices. This workshop, led by UNC Lineberger faculty, will focus on how to organize, prepare and submit an NCI Program Project Grant Application. There will be an opportunity to answer live questions from the audience. Please register to attend this workshop. This... Read more »
Getting Started with AI Prompts is open to Gillings faculty, staff and students and aimed for beginners curious to explore how these technologies may help them in their work. One hour in length and over Zoom, which will be recorded. The first in the series is Getting Started with AI Prompts. This workshop will provide... Read more »
