National Public Health Week
Celebrate National Public Health Week with UNC Gillings! Check out our website to discover all the ways we are celebrating. gillingsNPHW.web.unc.edu
Celebrate National Public Health Week with UNC Gillings! Check out our website to discover all the ways we are celebrating. gillingsNPHW.web.unc.edu
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 »
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 »
Melissa Gilkey, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Health Behavior, will be giving a talk titled, "Changing Parent and Provider Behavior to Support HPV Vaccination." About the Speaker: Dr. Melissa B. Gilkey is an assistant professor of health behavior in the University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health. With research interests... 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!
Join the Gillings School Advancement Office on April 9 for GiveUNC and get in on the excitement in the Atrium with giveaways and treats! GiveUNC is a 24-hour University-wide giving day when we call public health Tar Heels across the world to participate and make a gift of any size, to any area of the... Read more »
Join the UNC Gender-Based Violence Research Group and the Injury Prevention Research Center for the 2019 Gender-Based Violence Symposium: Systems (in)Justice: Unpacking institutional responses to sexual violence to inform research and practice. To learn more and stay updated on symposium news visit our website. Every effort will be made to accommodate advance accessibility requests; on-site requests cannot be... 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 »
Brett Doherty, PhD, MSPH, research associate from Dartmouth College, will present a seminar titled, "A Survey of Statistical Methods for the Investigation of Health Effects of Multiple Environmental Pollutants." This presentation will describe the challenges inherent to epidemiologic studies of multiple pollutants and detail a selection of popular families of statistical methods that can be... Read more »
The Latinx Caucus and the Social Justice Action Committee invite you to A RESOURCE FAIR of organizations working with local immigrant and refugee communities. Attendees are encouraged to move through the fair of providers and organizations and learn from their work with immigrant and refugee communities. Each participating organization will lead a brief presentation on... 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 »
Panelists: Helena Hansen, PhD, MD, associate professor, Department of Psychiatry at New York University Jennifer Carroll, PhD, MPH, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology, Elon University Vigil Hayes, Appalachian harm reduction services coordinator, NC Harm Reduction Coalition Jon Zibbell, PhD, MA, senior public health analyst, RTI International
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 »
Focus group interviews are commonly used for survey development, content development and qualitative data collection to capture rich information about attitudes and beliefs that affect behavior. An overview of the... Read more »
The Implementation Science Student Group and Consortium for Implementation Science present an opportunity for students to have intimate, in-depth discussions with Dr. Aarons. His implementation science work is applied to improving system, organizational, and individual factors that influence implementation and sustainment of evidence-based practices and quality of care in health care and public sector practice... Read more »
Dr. Greg Aarons, professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), will be presenting "Leadership and Organizational Change for Implementation (LOCI) to Improve Care in Systems and Organizations." Lunch will be provided. Please register online.
Join Helena Hansen, PhD, MD, associate professor at New York University for an engaging talk titled "White Opioids: Race in the War on Drugs that Wasn't."
Shuangge Ma, PhD, professor of biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled "Pan-disease clustering analysis of the trend of period prevalence." For all... Read more »
Suna Hanöz-Penney, director of International Programs at ACEV— Mother Child Education Foundation in Istanbul, Turkey, will present a lecture titled, " A Fair Start for Children, ACEV's Experiences in Program Replication... Read more »
Dr. Beth Jörgenson from the University of Rochester and Dr. Karen Andes will be speaking about their research regarding women's reproductive health and disability in Latin America. This event is... Read more »
Register now for the 2019 Innovation Showcase hosted by Innovate Carolina. During this annual event, you’ll meet the most innovative UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, student and alumni, plus standout entrepreneurs from the local... Read more »
UNC's 6th Annual Climate Change & Resilience Symposium will be held on Friday April 12. The event will feature keynote speaker Brigadier General Stephen Cheney, a retired Marine who is now CEO of the American Security Project. He will speak on the threat climate change poses for US national security. The event will also have... Read more »