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 branded Gillings swag items! In order to ship prizes following game night, please make sure to submit a DELIVERY address when you register. Email Natiaya... Read more »
For decades, scientists warned of the potential for a global coronavirus outbreak. But when SARS-CoV-2 emerged, no therapeutics, drugs or vaccines were readily available. Founded by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill, the Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative (READDI) is finding solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic while developing drugs and therapeutics for future viral outbreaks —... Read more »
GILLINGSX 2021 – RESILIENCE IN TIMES OF CRISIS SESSION 2: RESILIENCE WITHIN THE INDIVIDUAL Wednesday, March 24 @8 a.m. | Registration required Is Self-Compassion a Key to Resilience? - Dr. Melissa Clepper-Faith (she/her), MPH in Maternal and Child Health Let's TikTok about it: What do Young-Adult BIPOC with MentalHealth Concerns Want to See in the... Read more »
In this webinar, John Drake, Ph.D., will describe the surveillance tools used to understand how interactions between humans and pathogenic reservoir-species may lead to spillover events. He’ll also discuss the dynamical models that researchers use once an outbreak has been reported to understand how an infectious disease spatially spreads. Registration required.
Join this month's COVID-19 journal club to discuss the use of real-world data to evaluate the effectiveness of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine as described in this recent paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine: BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine in a Nationwide Mass Vaccination Setting. Discussion Leaders Michele Jonsson-Funk, PhD Associate Professor, Epidemiology Gillings... Read more »
This lecture qualifies for 1.5 hours of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. In this seminar, Dr. Lauren A. Smith will discuss... Read more »
This event qualifies for 2.5 hours of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. Join the Gillings Alumni Association on March 24 for a 5 p.m. screening of GATHER - an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political, and cultural identities... 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 »
Sonal Shah is a Professor at Georgetown University, and was the Founding Executive Director of the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation (2014-20). Sonal served as Deputy Assistant to... Read more »
This lecture qualifies for 75 minutes of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. Creating a race + equity task force in Data... Read more »
Dr. Sunduz Keles will give a biostatistics talk titled "Identifying effector genes of human GWAS variants by INFIMA". The Keles Research Group is interested in statistical and computational genomics and... 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 »
GILLINGSX 2021 – RESILIENCE IN TIMES OF CRISIS SESSION 3: GROWTH DURING A PANDEMIC Thursday, March 25 @ 8 p.m. | Registration required Behind the Front Lines: the Role of Virology in Pandemic Response and Preparedness - Cait Edwards (she/her), MPH in Applied Epidemiology Resilience Redefined - Dr. Bahby Banks (she/her), MPH in Public Health... 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 »
The seminar series will increase awareness about the impact of disparities that contribute to children’s ability to keep pace, which have broad dire effects on the neurodevelopmental trajectories of children growing in disadvantaged households and communities. The seminar will further inform science-based policy measures that compel action within our local and state governments to drive... Read more »
