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
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Inclusive Excellence Training: Safe Zone
2301 McGavran-Greenberg Hall McGavran-Greenberg Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesSafe 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... Read more »
Activity: Just Walk!
Entrance, McGavran-Greenberg Hall (Pittsboro St. side) McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin 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.... Read more »
Activity: Yoga
0003/0004 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesStudents, 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... Read more »
National Public Health Week Kickoff
Armfield Atrium, Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesNational 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... Read more »
Activity: Mindful Relaxation
0003/0004 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAll 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... Read more »
Activity: Yoga
0003/0004 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesStudents, faculty and staff are invited to join the Culture of Health team for free yoga classes. Beginners are welcome and mats are provided!
Interprofessional Education and Practice Opioid Discussion
Lower Atrium, Michael Hooker Research Center 135 Dauer Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesIf 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... Read more »
Activity: Mindful Relaxation
0003/0004 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAll 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... Read more »
Activity: Just Walk!
Entrance, McGavran-Greenberg Hall (Pittsboro St. side) McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin 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.... Read more »
Crafting Resilience
3203 Frank Porter Graham Student Union 3103 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesPart 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... Read more »
BEBES Perinatal Health Panel – A NPHW Event
1301 McGavran-Greenberg Hall (Michel A. Ibrahim Seminar Room) McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesPlease 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 »
Coffee and Community Outreach
Armfield Atrium, Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesStop by the Atrium to grab some coffee and a bagel and learn about ways to get involved in rural health research and community outreach. Sponsored by the Gillings Student Government... Read more »
Intro to Multilevel Modeling Workshop
Room 219 Davis Library 208 Raleigh St., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesIntroduction to Multilevel Modeling is a two-day workshop focused on the application and interpretation of multilevel models, also known as hierarchical linear models and mixed models, for the analysis of... Read more »
Impact of Public Health in Rural Communities Discussion
101 Rosenau Hall Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NCJoin Dr. Mark Holmes, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and Director of the North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center, and Dr. George Pink, professor... Read more »
Activity: Yoga
0003/0004 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesStudents, 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... Read more »
Gillings Student Success Seminar: Fostering a Sense of Community
2306 McGavran-Greenberg Hall McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThe core of well-being in a community may rely on the capacity of that community to provide the resources and social support members need to navigate times of challenge and... Read more »
Activity: Yoga
0003/0004 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesStudents, 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... Read more »
Conversations with Pape Gaye, IntraHealth International
Armfield Atrium, Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin the Gillings Research, Innovation and Global Solutions Office for a Q&A with President and CEO of InterHealth International Inc., Pape Gaye! Lunch will be provided. Sponsored by the Gillings Research, Innovation and Global Solutions Office and the Gillings Student Government Association. This event is part of National Public Health Week.
3rd Annual Environmental Justice Lecture – Inspired by Steve Wing: The People’s Professor
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Auditorium (0001 Michael Hooker Research Center) Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesPlease join us for the 3rd Annual Environmental Justice Lecture – Inspired by Steve Wing: The People’s Professor. We are excited to welcome Dr. Scott Laney, Epidemiologist with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Dr. Laney’s recent work has focused on coal miner health. The title of his lecture is, "Resurgence of... Read more »
BIOS Seminar: Data Integration
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Auditorium (0001 Michael Hooker Research Center) Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJan Hannig, PhD, professor of statistics and operations research at UNC Chapel Hill, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled, "Data Integration Via Analysis of Subspaces (DIVAS)." A major challenge in the age of Big Data is the integration of disparate data types into a data analysis. That is tackled here in the context of data blocks measured... Read more »
Addressing the Opioid Epidemic
Lower Atrium, Michael Hooker Research Center 135 Dauer Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesCome help assemble naloxone kits and learn about NC legislative initiatives addressing the opioid epidemic with the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition. This event is sponsored by the North Carolina Attorney General's Collegiate Council on Opioid Misuse, the Public Health Leadership Student Organization (PHLSA), and the Student Pharmacists Opioid Misuse Prevention (StOMP).
GillingsX
133 Rosenau Hall (Joan Heckler Gillings Auditorium) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAre you a Gillings student or post-doc doing innovative global health work? Is your practicum or research focused on solving important public health challenges around the world? Are you involved in a local initiative or study with global implications or ties? If so, apply to speak at this year's GillingsX event and share your work... Read more »
Pharmaceutical Innovations Seminar
Top of the Hill Restaurant & Brewery - Great Room 100 E Franklin St 2nd floor, Chapel Hill, NCJoin the Office of Technology Commercialization at the next Carolina Innovation Seminar to hear the latest news about the Eshelman Institute for Innovation. Learn how the Institute is accelerating ideas that lead to discoveries and breakthroughs in research, education and health care.
10th Anniversary Celebration – UNC IGHID
Medical Biomolecular Research Building (MBRB) 111 Mason Farm rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesPlease save the date for the 10th anniversary aelebration of the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases. Special guests: Richard Chaisson, MD, professor of medicine, epidemiology and international health at Johns Hopkins University and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Global... Read more »