Pearl Hacks 2021
Want to get more involved in the technology field? Are you a beginner and wondering how to get started? Do you want to build connections with both your peers and... Read more »
Want to get more involved in the technology field? Are you a beginner and wondering how to get started? Do you want to build connections with both your peers and... Read more »
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 »
Monday, February 22, 2021 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Register to attend the webinar or watch live on the Watson Institute's YouTubechannel. Vaccine Roll-out: What's Working for Implementation? A conversation with public health experts overseeing vaccinations in successful locations. What can other state leaders learn from these examples and scale the efforts that are working... Read more »
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School faculty and staff inclusive excellence training requirements. In this session, researchers and community advocates will provide insights into... Read more »
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 Tuesdays a 10:40 a.m. to receive empowering health information. February 23: Tanya Bass, MS, MED., CHES, CSE and Leslie Massicotte, Practicum Student – “Consent and... Read more »
This lecture qualifies for 1.5 credit hours toward the annual Gillings School faculty and staff inclusive excellence training requirement. In the wake of a summer of protests against police brutality, the midst of an ongoing pandemic, and the aftermath of a contentious election, the UNC Program for Public Discourse and Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies... Read more »
All are invited to the weekly Environmental Sciences and Engineering In-House Seminar Series, which continues on Zoom on Feb. 24 at 12:20 p.m. with doctoral student Alejandro Valencia presenting “The... Read more »
Join the NC TraCS Comparative Effectiveness Research team in an online journal club discussion of "Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine," published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Registration is required. Contact with Michelle Maclay questions.
This lecture qualifies for 1.5 credit hours toward annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirements. The Race, Racism, and Racial Equity (R3) Symposium, co-hosted by the University Office for Diversity... Read more »
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 »
This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. How do we improve health outcomes and increase access to care for the people of North Carolina and beyond? Join Anita Brown-Graham, UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member and host of PBS North Carolina's ncIMPACT public affairs... Read more »
This conference qualifies for 8 hours of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirements for faculty and staff. The Minority Health Conference, which is the largest and longest-running student-led health conference in the country, aims to raise awareness around minority health and mobilize students, academics and community members to take action for... Read more »
Join KickStart Venture Services for the next edition of the KickStart Presents webinar series. “Where innovation and introspection meet: a guide for managing stress as a startup founder” will include... Read more »
Dr. Richard Zink spent 17 years in and around medical product development at a real-world data company (Target RWE) where he led data management and statistics in the analysis and reporting of data derived from electronic medical records; a software company (SAS Institute) where he developed and supported platforms to analyze and visualize safety and... Read more »
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... Read more »
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 »
This event, hosted by the Office of Student Affairs, will highlight a public health employer. Register on Handshake.
This course will present the conceptual underpinnings of treatment effect estimation under random assignment and complement those underpinnings with a discussion of frequently encountered challenges in the context of social... Read more »
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 »
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 »
Presenter Sam Cykert, MD, professor UNC School of Medicine Sam Cykert, MD, will describe how implementation of the Heart Health Now study affected cardiovascular risk when applied to high-risk patients... Read more »
All are invited to the weekly Environmental Sciences and Engineering In-House Seminar Series, which continues on Zoom on March 3 at 12:20 p.m. with Dr. Jason West presenting “Feeding Two... Read more »
Online surveys now represent a large segment of the research on public attitudes and behaviors. In this workshop, participants will cover metrics for evaluating common data quality issues and strategies... Read more »
In this info session, participants will learn about the Mary Rose Tully Training Initiative through the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CGBI). This program is a Pathway 2 Lactation Consultant training program that offers the educational hours and practical training to become an internationally recognized, board-certified lactation consultant (IBCLC). The director of training for the program... Read more »
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 »
Dr. Christina Kendziorski's research concerns statistical methods and software for computational biology and genomics. Her group develops statistical methods and software for the analysis of data from high-throughput genomics experiments and have considerable expertise in the experimental design and analysis of bulk RNA-seq studies and in single-cell RNA-seq. The group also uses high-throughput data from... Read more »
This online short course provides an introduction to logistic regression. Model specification, identification, estimation, hypothesis-testing, and interpretation of results are covered. Software to estimate these models is discussed, but not... Read more »
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 »
Environmental Sciences and Engineering Centennial Seminar Series Speaker: Jian Zhen Yu (PhD, 1996) Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering 2020 Distinguished Alumna Dr. Yu is a professor in the Department... Read more »
This workshop will: • Define an investigational drug, including off-label use of FDA approved drugs • Provide guidance on determining when the IND regulations apply to research studies • Discuss... Read more »
Approximately once a month, the Womxn in Healthcare Leadership student group hosts hourly “Coffee Chat” sessions that bring in guest speakers from around the country to discuss their experiences with... Read more »
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 All Initiative at UNC-Chapel Hill. Whether you're interested in food production, preparation, access and equity, or education, this series is for you. Many organizations will... Read more »
This year's theme is "Health Policy & Emergency Preparedness: Are We Ready for the Next Crisis?" Dr. Brandy N. Kelly Pryor of the Humana Foundation will deliver the keynote address:... Read more »
Health policy and management doctoral candidate Hailey James will defend her dissertation work on Friday, March 5. Her dissertation is titled, "What happens when hospitals no longer have a volume... Read more »
Dr. K. Sean Kimbro, Associate Professor at North Carolina Central University, will give a presentation titled "Novel Interleukins Contribute to Lipid and Glucose Dysregulation in African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes.” Contact john.easterbrook@unc.edu with questions. Registration required.
Interested in healthcare, public health or improving global population health? Join the AID India UNC-CH speaker event on Sunday, March 7 at 10 a.m. JSS is a people's health support... Read more »