Week of Events
Community-Academic Partnership for Farmworkers Health
Community-Academic Partnership for Farmworkers Health
Come join NC FIELD & UNC’s Environmental Justice Action Research Clinic (EJ Clinic) for an interactive session focused on farmworkers’ health. In this session, you will learn more about the social determinants of farmworkers' health, their health needs and challenges, and the work that is been done to address them. There will have games, storytelling... Read more »
Mary Rose Tully Training Initiative Information Session
Mary Rose Tully Training Initiative Information Session
Interested in the MRT-TI Program? Come join us to hear from the program director, Catherine Sullivan, and current students enrolled in MRT-TI to learn more about the program and the... Read more »
RTI-UNC Gillings PHield Trip 2024
RTI-UNC Gillings PHield Trip 2024
The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and RTI International invites students, faculty and staff to join the annual PHield Trip! Please note: A bus will depart Gillings at... Read more »
Census Data for Urban Studies
Census Data for Urban Studies
This one-day workshop will provide a hands-on, guided introduction to working with US Census data using tidycensus in R. The course will focus on using geographically-referenced demographic and socioeconomic data from the decennial census and American Community Survey. Participants will learn how to acquire data, perform basic data preprocessing tasks, create basic visualizations, and perform... Read more »
Co-Creating Community Centered Solutions that Support Maternal and Infant Health: Testing New Ideas Early and Often
Co-Creating Community Centered Solutions that Support Maternal and Infant Health: Testing New Ideas Early and Often
Human-centered design is an essential tool that ensures that community partners play a key role in generating and testing the innovative ideas that lead to desirable, feasible and viable solutions to their most pressing problems. During this hands-on workshop participants will learn the basics of the IDEO design thinking model and how it has been... Read more »
Sustained Re-engagement in HIV Care: Challenges and Opportunities for Intervention
Sustained Re-engagement in HIV Care: Challenges and Opportunities for Intervention
Dr. Phillips broad research area is understanding and supporting the HIV continuum of care. Her research to date has investigated the impact of mobility and care transitions on adherence and retention in HIV care among pregnant and postpartum women in Cape Town. She has been investigating the use of routine electronic medical records in the... Read more »
Wellbeing Wednesday: Dimensions of Intellectual Wellness Journaling in the Atrium
Wellbeing Wednesday: Dimensions of Intellectual Wellness Journaling in the Atrium
This series will cover the 7 Dimensions of Wellness: emotional, physical, occupational, social, intellectual, environmental and financial. This session is the intellectual session. Reflect on setting and improving your boundaries, plus other mindful activities and journaling prompts. Everyone is welcome. Registration is required for breakout activity rooms. Snacks will be provided. Contact Tiffany Edouard with... Read more »
Community Organizing for Environmental Justice: Toxic Waste Cleanup and Corporate Accountability in West Badin, NC
Community Organizing for Environmental Justice: Toxic Waste Cleanup and Corporate Accountability in West Badin, NC
Come learn about the Alcoa aluminum company’s discriminatory labor and waste management practices in this interactive panel discussion highlighting the Concerned Citizens of West Badin’s advocacy and organizing efforts against environmental racism. Refreshments will be provided. Co-hosted by: UNC Environmental Justice Action Research Clinic, NCEJN, CCWBC, UNC Rural & UNC Engagement Week. Contact Lindsay Savelli... Read more »
Community Organizing for Environmental Justice: Toxic Waste
Community Organizing for Environmental Justice: Toxic Waste
Alcoa aluminum company's labor and waste management practices in Badin, NC discriminated against and targeted Black union workers and residents, causing environmental, health, and economic harm. Join the Concerned Citizens of West Badin, NC Environmental Justice Network and UNC EJ Clinic for an interactive panel discussion on this topic on February 28 at the Stone... Read more »
Monthly Meeting of UNC’s Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC)
Monthly Meeting of UNC’s Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC)
Meetings moderated by LMCC Co-Directors Paul Blom and Mindy Buchanan-King, both of whom are PhD students and Teaching Fellows in UNC's Department of English and Comparative LiteratureThe Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) at UNC is an informal reading and working group of graduate and professional students (but open to the entire UNC community) who... Read more »
PreMiEr Seminar Series: Environmental behaviors of pathogens in complex environments and challenges to engineering interventions
PreMiEr Seminar Series: Environmental behaviors of pathogens in complex environments and challenges to engineering interventions
This is a seminar sponsored by the NSF-funded Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr), comprising five North Carolina institutions including Duke, N.C. A&T, NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill, and UNC-Charlotte. PreMiEr’s mission is to improve the health of people within the built environment through manipulation of indoor microbiomes.