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
Applications are open for the 5th annual ComSciCon-Triangle - a two-day science communication workshop organized by and for graduate students. The workshop features expert panels with talented local science communicators and activities for students to practice oral and written science communication skills. Both workshop days are all day events schedule from 8:30am to 3pm. To... 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 »
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... 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... 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... 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.... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read more »
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... Read more »
The Health Humanities Journal is a student-run journal that publishes work each semester on the intersection of medicine and the humanities. Come celebrate the work of the journal's authors. Refreshments... Read more »
The Global Health & Innovation Conference is a global health conference as well as the largest social entrepreneurship conference, with nearly 2,000 professionals and students from all 50 states and more than 55 countries. This must-attend, thought-leading conference convenes leaders, changemakers, and participants from all sectors of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship.
Before Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely take the stage at Memorial Hall, join Reagon and filmmaker Katina Parker for a screening of this new short film series. These beautiful short films... Read more »
Join Toshi Reagon and BigLOVELY for a community song circle, featuring the many people with whom Toshi Reagon has collaborated in her time as a Carolina Performing Arts Mellon Foundation... 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.... 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... 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... 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!
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... 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.... Read more »
Gina Chowa, PhD, MSW, associate dean for global engagement and associate professor at the UNC School of Social Work, will be presenting a talk titled "Exploring the Effects of an... Read more »
UNC Global will sponsor a Passport Drive, April 17 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the 4th floor of the FedEx Global Education Center. UNC Global hosts officials from the U.S.... 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... Read more »
Michele R. Forman, PhD, FACE, is a distinguished professor and the department head in the Department of Nutrition Science at Purdue University — and an accomplished graduate of the UNC Gillings epidemiology department! She will give a talk titled, "Facing obesity and other co-morbidity in mothers and their offspring: a life course approach." This seminar... 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... Read more »
Phillips Ambassador and Gillings School undergraduate, Will Blanks, will be joined by the deans of admission from National University of Singapore (NUS) and Duke-NUS Medical School to discuss the benefits... Read more »
Join Gillings School EQUITY concentration faculty for an interactive presentation on the nature and impact of structural racism and what it looks like across institutions. The Groundwater Approach teaches how... Read more »
The purpose of this course, "Discussion and Practical Application of Data Visualization Best Practices using Survey Data", is to present best practices for creating graphics from survey data and provide... Read more »
Patricia A. Hunt will present a seminar titled, "Making Error While Making Gametes." Patricia A. Hunt is Meyer Distinguished Professor in the School of Molecular Biosciences at Washington State University.... Read more »
Stephen R. Cole, PhD, professor of epidemiology at the Gillings School, will present a talk on, "Bounds and Estimators for the Risk Function." Dr. Cole works to build accurate and impactful knowledge, particularly population-health (epidemiologic) knowledge. He is interested in study designs and analyses that accurately estimate parameters of central interest to population-health scientists, such... Read more »
Save the date for the UNC Tobacco Treatment and Weight Management Programs' 4th Annual Fundraiser. The event will be held at NAMU Restaurant in Durham. Dan Ariely, a renowned speaker... Read more »