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.
The Department of Health Behavior is hosting an upcoming talk by doctoral student Iliya Gutin on weight-neutrality in research on body size and health. This presentation will review the limitations of how body size is used in public health research and practice, and discuss how body size can become imbued with social meaning and stereotypes,... Read more »
The University will be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. UNC’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration is part of a campus-wide initiative to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., his legacy, and his ideals. Carolina began its celebrations of Dr. King’s life and legacy in 1983, long before there was a federal holiday. UNC is... 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 like to join a class.
Participants in this course will discuss qualitative processes to better position course participants in their efforts to design and collect data specifically aimed at contributing directly to social justice. Timely issues, including racial disparities in policing, will be used as examples of how decision-making across the methodological life of a qualitative project can be leveraged... Read more »
The UNC Partnerships in Aging Program invites you to save the date for their inaugural Diversity in Aging Symposium, an event designed to spark conversation at the intersection of aging, race, culture and ethnicity. For their first event, they will engage in conversation about eldercare with four community agencies that serve historically marginalized populations of elders. This virtual... Read more »
Environmental sciences and engineering alumnus Jordan Kern, PhD, is assistant professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at the NC State College of Natural Resources. Registration required.
Dr. Devan V. Mehrotra has, over the past 30 years, made significant contributions towards the research, development and regulatory approval of medical drugs and vaccines across a broad spectrum of therapeutic areas. He was awarded an MRL Presidential Fellowship in 2012. Dr. Mehrotra is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of... Read more »
Although graduate school teaches you many things, many Ph.D. students complete their dissertations having never been fully trained in academic publishing. This course will discuss professional integrity and ethics, the role of academic conversations and communities as a guide for publication forums and journal selections, the mechanics of publishing in journals and other forums, 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 like to join a class.
This 3-day (1/25, 1/27, 1/29) online course will provide a basic introduction to time series analysis and its applications in social science research. Participants will cover time series regression and exploratory data analysis, ARIMA models, model identification/estimation, intervention analysis and other models used for causal inference. This course will use examples and hands-on labs in... Read more »
A special installment in the conversation series, Evidence to Action, to launch the Urban Institute's Racial Equity Analytics Lab (REAL). Leaders from Urban, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and major cities will discuss the power of disaggregated data to help changemakers lead an equitable response to the pandemic and economic crisis. They will also discuss... Read more »
Join Social Innovation @ UNC for an information session about Map the System. Hear from last year’s UNC winner, ask questions about the competition and meet other students interested in forming teams. This competition is a great chance to show your passion for social change and to learn more about systems mapping, because solving the... Read more »
Join the UNC Center for the Business of Health (CBOH) for a special webinar, "Healthcare in 2021: Under the Biden Administration," hosted by the CBOH, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) and the Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy. Experts from prominent North Carolina health-focused organizations will discuss the future... Read more »
All are invited to the weekly Environmental Sciences and Engineering In-House Seminar Series, which begins virtually on Jan. 27 at 12:20 p.m. with Dr. Amanda Northcross presenting “Fishing, Oil Spills and Community Activism: A year as a visiting professor in Bahia, Brazil.” The traditional fishing communities in Bahia, Brasil are facing several environmental health challenges.... Read more »
The first general body meeting of the Student Global Health Committee will be on Jan 27 from 12:30 - 1 p.m. Bring lunch and stop by to hear about the events planned for this semester and how to get involved. Be sure to register for the Zoom details. Follow @sghc_unc on Instagram or Twitter for... Read more »
This 3-day (1/25, 1/27, 1/29) online course will provide a basic introduction to time series analysis and its applications in social science research. Participants will cover time series regression and exploratory data analysis, ARIMA models, model identification/estimation, intervention analysis and other models used for causal inference. This course will use examples and hands-on labs in... Read more »
Andrea Knittel's research focuses on women's reproductive transitions in the criminal justice system and a commitment to resolve health disparities for women in criminal justice. This presentation will highlight the methods and strategies used in recruiting women who have experienced incarceration from their social networks. The Inclusive Science Program (ISP) focuses on increasing the inclusion... Read more »
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 appropriate uses of focus groups, how to segment and recruit audiences, how to develop a moderator’s guide, and how to moderate focus groups. The class... Read more »
Dr. Sharon Browning's expertise is population genetics methods for large scale genetic data. In this lecture, she will discuss "Population genetics inference using segments of identity by descent." Segments of identity by descent (IBD) are long tracts of DNA shared by pairs of individuals due to inheritance from a recent common ancestor. These segments are... 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 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 »
Each spring semester Womxn in Healthcare Leadership holds an annual symposium where health care leaders discuss adversities and successes they have experienced throughout their careers. Please join them on Jan. 29 from Noon - 2 p.m. for the Spring Symposium, featuring keynote speaker Janet Hadar and panelists Micha’le Simmons, Alicia Stokes, Collin Watson and Nicholle... Read more »
Supporting students in difficult situations can be confusing, challenging and time-consuming. Our students face a variety of issues that are complex. We want to make sure you have the resources... Read more »
Hosted by Student Services at the Gillings School, this support pod is for international students. Jan. 29 at noon Registration is required.
Department of Nutrition Seminar: Uncovering Metabolic T cell Activation in Obesity Associated Diseases Speaker: Arion Kennedy, PhD, assistant professor of molecular and structural biochemistry at NC State University Registration required. Contact John Easterbrook with questions.
Join the Gillings community for a conversation with Pam Fessler, MPA, journalist, NPR correspondent and author of Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice. Her book highlights how the U.S. confined leprosy patients through much of the 20th century and how the patients fought against the injustice. Fessler will discuss lessons learned from... Read more »
This two-day course (2/1 and 2/3) provides an intro to developing multi-item scale measures and survey instruments. After a brief theoretical intro to topics, participants will turn to applied issues such as what is the optimal scale development process and how to deviate from that process. Participants will also address practical issues around questionnaire design,... 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 like to join a class.
This is an online 3-part short course (held over three afternoons – 2/2, 2/4, 2/5). Stata Part 1 will offer an introduction to Stata basics. Part 2 will teach entering data in Stata, working with Stata do files, and will show how to append, sort, and merge data sets. Part 3 will cover how to... Read more »
This two-day course (2/1 and 2/3) provides an intro to developing multi-item scale measures and survey instruments. After a brief theoretical intro to topics, participants will turn to applied issues such as what is the optimal scale development process and how to deviate from that process. Participants will also address practical issues around questionnaire design,... Read more »
All are invited to the weekly Environmental Sciences and Engineering In-House Seminar Series, which continues virtually on Feb. 3 at 12:20 p.m. with Dr. Zhenfa Zhang presenting “Organic Synthesis in Environmental Chemistry." The series asks speakers to tailor their presentation for a general audience so that all participants benefit. Learn more about the lecture and... Read more »
Save the Date for Improving Quality of Care in Humanitarian Healthcare: Experiences from Doctors Without Borders on Feb. 4 at noon. Anna Freeman, a Gillings MPH alumna in maternal and child health, is a nurse and quality improvement specialist with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders. A champion of equal access to health care, her field... Read more »
The Long and Winding Road My Journey as a Health Disparities Researcher Feb. 4 6-7:30 p.m. (Networking from 6-6:30 p.m., Lecture from 6:30-7:30 p.m.) Ronny Bell, PhD Professor of Social Sciences and Health Policy Associate Director of Community Outreach and Engagement, Wake Forest School of Medicine Director, Office of Cancer Health Equity, Wake Forest... Read more »
Dr. Tyler VanderWeele holds degrees from the University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University in mathematics, philosophy, theology, finance, and biostatistics. His research is focused on distinguishing between association and causation in the biomedical and social sciences, and, more recently, on measurement theory and synthesizing ideas from causal inference and analytic philosophy into... Read more »
This is an online 3-part short course (held over three afternoons – 2/2, 2/4, 2/5). Stata Part 1 will offer an introduction to Stata basics. Part 2 will teach entering data in Stata, working with Stata do files, and will show how to append, sort, and merge data sets. Part 3 will cover how to... Read more »
This event, hosted by the Office of Student Affairs, will highlight a public health employer. Register on Handshake.
Join the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute as they co-convene the upcoming seminar, Dual Impacts of COVID-19 and Racism and Inequity on Child Development: Interdisciplinary Conversations and Development of a Research-Policy Agenda, on Feb. 5 from 1-2:30 p.m. This presentation will discuss the implications of COVID-19 from a policy perspective with a focus on... Read more »
Precision, Personalized, and Global Nutrition: Why, What, and How? The annual Department of Nutrition and UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center seminar series will focus on a variety of topics, including: The mechanisms by which coagulation factors control aspects of diet-induced obesity Implicit biases and what can we do to improve diversity and inclusion in the... Read more »
This is an online 3-part short course (held over three afternoons – 2/2, 2/4, 2/5). Stata Part 1 will offer an introduction to Stata basics. Part 2 will teach entering data in Stata, working with Stata do files, and will show how to append, sort, and merge data sets. Part 3 will cover how to... Read more »
