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 »
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 »
Hongtu Zhu, PhD, professor in the Department of Biostatistics, will present this "Modern Statistical Methods in Ride-sharing Platforms and other IT companies." Dr. Hongtu Zhu, has a broad background in statistics, biostatistics, medical imaging, genetics and computational neuroscience, with specific training and expertise in neuroimaging data analysis and big data integration as well as secondary... Read more »
Dr. Carmen Anthonj, a postdoctoral research associate at the Water Institute in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, will present this week’s seminar in the department’s Spring 2019 series. Anthonj’s... 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 »
Jared Stewart from Labconco will be presenting on the company's groundbreaking technology for biosafety cabinets. The new style allows users to switch between ducted and recirculating air flow. This flexibility allows for a drastic reduction in HVAC load which means serious energy savings! There will be coffee and cookies - all are welcome to join!
Join the LGBTQ Health Disparities Research Collaborative as they host Dr. Karen Parker, Director of the Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office at the NIH, for a grantspersonship workshop. Please contact Dirk Davis (dirkd@live.unc.edu) for additional details.
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 »
Working as a Physician Assistant in Liberia, Sam Tozay helped with the West African Ebola outbreaks. Learn about his experience with regulatory research and his current project, the UNC Ebola... Read more »
Emily Landon, MD, will present a talk titled, "Washing Your Hands of It: Ethical Implications of Infection Control Policy and Practice." At the intersection of clinical and public health ethics lies the important practices of infection control. Often taken for granted as both proper and necessary, infection control encompasses a variety of practices that invite closer scrutiny.... Read more »
Subhajit Dutta, PhD, Pranab K. Sen Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, will present this "Adjustments of some distance based classifiers in HDLSS settings." Dr. Dutta's research interests include discriminant analysis, inference based on data depth, characterization of multivariate distributions and classification of sequence data, and he will be at the Gillings School... Read more »
Join the LGBTQ Health Disparities Research Collaborative as they host Dr. Karen Parker, Director of the Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office at the NIH, for a presentation titled, "Sexual and Gender Minority Research Activities at the NIH." Please contact Dirk Davis (dirkd@live.unc.edu) for additional details.
The Gillings AV Services office would like to invite you or your department to the remaining Zoom training opportunities for the semester. Feel free to bring your lunch and your device to join us for one or more workshops for an overview of the campus' ZOOM remote conferencing tool. Participants will learn basic meeting functions... Read more »
This year's seminar will be led by Timothy Rebbeck, PhD. Dr. Rebbeck is the Vincent L. Gregory, Jr. Professor of Cancer Prevention in Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School Of Public Health, professor of Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Editor-in-Chief of Cancer Epidemiology at Biomarkers & Prevention. Dr. Rebbeck's talk is titled "Cancer... Read more »
GlobeMed at UNC will be hosting their annual event Red Tie Affair (RTA) in partnership with the Carolina Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). This event is open to professionals, students, and local organizations to promote awareness about developments in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and research. Speakers this year include Dr. David Margolis, Dr. David Wohl, and... Read more »
