Have It Your Way: Contraceptives 101
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 »
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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 »
READDI, not Reactive: Preparing for the Next Pandemic
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,... Read more »
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GillingsX 2021: Session 2
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.... Read more »
Infectious Disease Intelligence: Predicting the Next Pandemic
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... Read more »
NC TraCS COVID-19 Journal Club: Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine
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... Read more »
Equity and Childhood Resilience
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 »
GATHER Film Screening & Panel Discussion
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... 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 Dean for Student Affairs Charletta Sims Evans to coach current students on keeping stress and anxiety low during the semester. Jan. 27: Radical Self Care... Read more »
The Future of Social Impact and Innovation
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 the President for President Obama and founded the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. Registration required.
Centering Race in Data Science
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 Science. Registration required. Desmond Upton Patton is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work at Columbia University. He is a Public Interest Technologist... Read more »
Identifying effector genes of human GWAS variants by INFIMA
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 develops statistical and computational data science methods for problems in high-dimensional genomic and biomedical data. The group will exploit, leverage and integrate high-throughput functional, genomic,... 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 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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GillingsX 2021: Session 3
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 »
Farm to Hospital
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 »