Farm to Correctional Facility
Join Gillings MPH/RD students as they host experts from different areas of the food system as part of the inaugural Farm to Institution Speaker Series, held under the Food for... Read more »
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Home Environments for Wellness Book Club and Peer Support Pod
Our home environment plays an important role in our overall well-being. Let’s reassess the state of our home environments and create more inspired spaces that support our mental health and wellness. We’ll learn about some common themes in design and wellness, read a book that will guide us through our individual home assessments and share... Read more »
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Entrepreneurship Panel: A Virtual Discussion with Entrepreneurs of Color at the Gillings School
What are the structural and systemic barriers experienced by entrepreneurs of color? Join a panel of Gillings School alumni and faculty entrepreneurs on April 1 to learn more about their experience starting public health consultancies, empowering girls, building resilience in rural communities and more! Registration required. Featuring: Jean G. Orelien, DrPH, BIOS ’07, founder of... Read more »
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Environmental Sciences and Engineering Centennial Celebration
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health 135 Dauer Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThe Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering (ESE) will celebrate 100 years on April 5-9, 2021. Leading up to the keynote seminar will be a week-long opportunity to watch 6-minute... Read more »
National Public Health Week: Building Bridges to Better Health
During the first full week of April each year, APHA brings together communities across the United States to observe National Public Health Week as a time to recognize the contributions of public health and highlight issues that are important to improving our nation. APHA creates new NPHW materials each year that can be used during... Read more »
Gentle Yoga
Join the Gillings School's Culture of Health for 30-minute gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays - noon (30 minutes) Please contact rcerny@email.unc.edu if you would... Read more »
NAH (Not A Host): The COVID-19 Campaign Bridging Education and Innovation in Our Communities
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. Join the NCCU Department of Public Health Education on... Read more »
Gillings Game Night
Gillings Game Night Event Series is a virtual social hour hosted by Natiaya Neal, Student Affairs Events Manager. Please register to receive the zoom links. All winners will receive newly... Read more »
Gillings Blood Drive
The Gillings Student Government Association is hosting a platelet drive as part of National Public Health Week. If interested in donating platelets, please email Julia Nevison to schedule a time.
Introduction to Focus Groups
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... Read more »
Implementation Science in Global Health: Leveraging the Power of Community
Join NC TraCS and the UNC Center for AIDS Research for the Spring 2021 edition of the Implementation Science Speaker Series, featuring Carolyn Audet, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Policy... Read more »
Centering Race in Health Equity Research and Leadership
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. Wed, April 7 from 1-2 p.m. ET Daphne C.... Read more »
Dissertation Defense: Ryan Kandrack
Fourth-year doctoral candidate Ryan Kandrack will defend his dissertation, titled "Promise and performance of primary care vertical integration: Effects on spending, utilization and quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries." The... Read more »
From Awareness to Action: Confronting Weight Stigma to Promote Public Health
The Department of Nutrition is excited to share the inaugural Weight Stigma Awareness Series! Nutrition students and faculty curated this two-part event to increase awareness of weight stigma and lay the foundation for addressing it at the individual, research and practice levels. Join us as we learn about weight stigma in public health research and... Read more »
MCH Critical Conversations: Substance Use and Recovery for People Genderized as Women
Let’s have a conversation about what addiction looks like in people socialized as women. What typically co-occurs with substance use? When does substance use become disordered, and what does recovery... Read more »
Structures of Inequality: Moving Forward on Deconstructing the Gender Binary
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School faculty and staff inclusive excellence training requirement. In the fall, Honors Carolina kicked off an ongoing examination of systems of inequality with a series of programs on structural racism. This semester, they will turn attention to related questions of bias and discrimination.... Read more »
Wind Down Wednesday – Mental Fitness Series
Wind Down Wednesday is a virtual mental fitness series created to help students to maintain a healthy school-life balance. Join professionals in Public Health and Mental Health invited by Associate... Read more »
3rd Annual Student Research and Entrepreneurship Showcase
Join the Gillings School Student Government Association (SGA) to learn more about students' research and entrepreneurship projects. This event will be all asynchronous and virtual. Students will record a 5-10... Read more »
Introduction to Focus Groups
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... Read more »
CTSA Visiting Scholar Seminar – Therapeutic Advances in Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
Join translational and clinical scientists from across the CTSA Consortium for a presentation by Hanny Al-Samkari, MD describing the revolutionary potential of anti-angiogenic therapy in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) and... Read more »
Towards a unified methodology of study design and statistical analysis for causal inference in implementation science
Dr. Donna Spiegelman has a joint doctorate in biostatistics and epidemiology and her research is motivated by problems that arise in epidemiology and require biostatistical settlement; in part a focus on troubleshooting methods for study design and data analysis to reduce bias in estimation and inference due to measurement error or misclassification in the exposure... Read more »
2021 Deil S. Wright Lecture: Preparing People of Color for 21st Century Jobs: Unfulfilled Promises and Lost Opportunities
This lecture qualifies for 2 hours of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. The MPA Alumni Association created this lecture series in 2002 to honor Professor Deil Wright for his 34 years of teaching MPA students. Each year, a distinguished professional from the field of public administration... Read more »
Home Environments for Wellness Book Club and Peer Support Pod
Our home environment plays an important role in our overall well-being. Let’s reassess the state of our home environments and create more inspired spaces that support our mental health and... Read more »
Setting the Stage for Your Research: Conducting a Literature Review
This on-line course is divided into two sections. The first section will summarize the goals of a literature or systematic review and explore techniques to support the search, organization, and... Read more »
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Environmental Sciences and Engineering Centennial Celebration Keynote: Why Water Action Must Be Part of Climate Action
Why Water Action Must Be Part of Climate Action April 9 at noon The keynote lecture for the Environmental Sciences and Engineering Centennial Celebration will be given by Gary White.... Read more »
The Ron Strauss Global Oral Health Conference: Day 1
Featuring: Ingeborg De Kok, DDS, MS Ron Strauss, DMD, PhD Barbara Stephenson, PhD Brittany Seymour, DDS, MPH Evelina Gherghelegiu, MD, PhD Emil Ceban, MD, PhD The Ron Strauss Global Oral... Read more »
Gillings Gives Back: Carolina Community Garden
The Gillings Student Government Association will put on the Gillings Gives Back event in partnership with Carolina Community Garden. They will host 20 Gillings School students to help build our community and give back. Space is limited to 20 people to ensure the safety of all students. Please RSVP as soon as possible to reserve... Read more »
The Ron Strauss Global Oral Health Conference: Day 2
Featuring: Ingeborg De Kok, DDS, MS Judith Lasker, PhD Austin Harbison, DDS 4-year Tricia Todd, MPH The Ron Strauss Global Oral Health Conference “Raising the Bar for Global Short-term Health Experiences” will provide an overview on the current guidelines and combined efforts to calibrate Short-Term Experiences in Global Health (STEGHs). Registration required.
Gentle Yoga
Join the Gillings School's Culture of Health for 30-minute gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays - noon (30 minutes) Please contact rcerny@email.unc.edu if you would like to join a class.
Michael O’Malley Guest Lecture: Applying a multi-level social determinants framework to address cancer health disparities
Michael O’Malley Lecture, sponsored by UNC Lineberger Cancer Control Education Program, Cancer Health Disparities and Social Determinants of Health Scarlett Lin Gomez, MPH, PhD Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics The University... Read more »
Situating Human Development in the Sociopolitical Context
On Monday, April 12th Dr. Onnie Rogers, Assistant Professor in Psychology at Northwestern University, joins FPG’s Carolina Consortium on Human Development to present Situating Human Development in the Sociopolitical Context as part of our Spring 2021 series on Culture & Developmental Science: Considering Context, Culture, and Intersectional Approaches. Join them from 2:00 – 3:15 PM... Read more »
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What would Dr. Bill Jenkins tell those refusing the COVID-19 vaccine because of the Tuskegee Study?
This lecture qualifies for one hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. Co-hosted by the Alumni Inclusive Excellence Committee and the Minority Student Caucus Featuring: Diane L. Rowley, MD, MPH Rowley is a professor emeritus with the Gillings School’s Department of Maternal and Child Health; a... Read more »
Machine Learning Seminar Series: The Promise and Peril of Machine Learning in Clinical Research
In this session of the NC TraCS Machine Learning seminar series Michele Jonsson-Funk, PhD, will introduce Machine Learning concepts and the potential implications of using Machine Learning for clinical research. Registration required. For questions, contact Patricia Knoepp.