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 »
This Odum Institue 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. The course will also cover the application... Read more »
Dr. Alex Rowe, medical epidemiologist and chief of the Strategic & Applied Science Unit in the Malaria Branch of the CDC will present a talk entitled "Effectiveness of strategies to improve health care provider performance in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC): a systematic review". The talk will focus on the Health Care Provider Performance Review... Read more »
Gang Li, PhD, professor of biostatistics and biomathematics at UCLA, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled "A Scalable L0-Based Sparse Regression Method for Large-Scale Competing Risks Data." Abstract: This paper develops a scalable L0-based simultaneous variable selection and parameter estimation method for the popular Fine-Gray (1999) proportional subdistribution hazards (PSH) model for large competing risks time-to-event data via the... Read more »
Cara V. James, PhD, director of the Office of Minority Health at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will present a talk titled "Achieving Health Equity through Increased Understanding, Sustainable Solutions and Collective Action." James, who earned a doctorate in health policy from Harvard University, is a nationally recognized expert in health disparities, health... Read more »
Safe Zone is a program designed to create a network of visible allies to people who identify as part of the diverse LGBTIQA+ community. The four-hour educational session provides information and resources related to sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. Please register online.
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 »
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 »
National Public Health Week is a celebration of what makes public health great! Join Dean Rimer and the Gillings Student Government Association as we celebrate our school’s impact on public health across the nation and around the world. Stop by grab a locopop and freshly popped popcorn and chat with school leadership! Don’t forget to snap... 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 »
Students, faculty and staff are invited to join the Culture of Health team for free yoga classes. Beginners are welcome and mats are provided!
If you have an interest in learning about the advances public health professionals have made in the North Carolina opioid crisis through interprofessional practice and collaboration, join us for this panel and round table discussion. This panel will consist of employees within UNC’s Injury Prevention Research Center and the NC Division of Public Health who... 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 »
Part of being productive is knowing when to take a break! Come have coffee and cookies, do some crafts and learn about graduate and professional student groups (like Stigma Free Carolina) and campus offices (including ARS, CAPS, Campus Recreation, EOC, ODOS, Student Wellness, Writing Center, The Graduate School) that want to support your health, well-being,... Read more »
Please join Carolina BEBES for an in depth discussion about the current maternal mortality and morbidity and health equity crisis in the US. The panelists will include an interdisciplinary group of health providers (midwife, lactation consultant, ob/gyn) for a discussion about the definition, importance, and current obstacles to cooperative care in the perinatal health setting.... Read more »
