This event is a collaboration between Gillings School Student Affairs & NC Division of Public Health that aims to create a welcoming space for students to hear and learn from public health professionals regarding their career experience in state government. This event is open to all Gillings students--please bring relevant questions to be answered in... Read more »

First time users, learn about taking the Clifton Strengths assessment and how to apply your talents toward your educational, career and personal goals. To register for these workshops, please visit UNC Events and click on “Select Sponsor” drop down menu and select UNC Gillings School

The Gillings Dialogue Facilitation Team – Heels for Healing and Reconciliation invites you to attend the first “Better Together Dialogue Series” discussion. The discussion topic this month is “The Current and Future State of Public Health”  Please join them for this timely discussion topic as they collectively discuss the opportunities and challenges that may lie ahead... Read more »

Join us for our in-person informational session about joining our lactation consultant training program here at Gillings!

This Fireside Chat will feature three distinguished faculty members sharing their experiences and insights on real-world impact: Nabarun Dasgupta – Navigating the university system for translating research to practice Orlando Coronell – Translating university intellectual property into a start-up Amrita Bhowmick – Building public health digital products for online communities Don’t miss this opportunity to... Read more »

Make a candle with K&S CandleWorks!

Join us for a light movement break and snacks! Yoga mats provided.

At this event, rural GME and teaching health center GME program leaders, technical assistance organizations, state office staff, policymakers, and other interested GME stakeholders will come together to share best practices and foster a collaborative understanding of how to optimize state GME funding and strategies to support rural and medically underserved communities across the US.... Read more »

Communication challenges remain one of the earliest concerns of parents whose children eventually receive an autism diagnosis. Many existing measures in autism only characterize communication differences but are not designed to monitor improvement over time or support clinical decision making. This presentation will describe a new tool, the Early Communication Indicator for Autism (ECI-A), which... Read more »

Join the Student Global Health Committee for an insightful discussion on navigating public health challenges during crises! Learn from the experts as they share their experiences and strategies for effective crisis response. View the event flyer here!

Based on abortion research pioneered by Dr. Diana Greene Foster, The Turnaway Play, written by Lesley Lisa Greene, features real-life stories of women who were denied abortions across the United States. View the flyer here!

The 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 meet monthly to talk about all things related to the intersections of literature, medicine, and culture. In the past, we’ve met to workshop conference papers or... Read more »

About the speaker Dr. Carolyn M. Mazure is the Norma Weinberg Spungen and Joan Lebson Bildner Professor in Women’s Health Research, and Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Yale School of Medicine. Most recently, Dr. Mazure was invited to serve as the Chair of the first-ever White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research. The... Read more »

There are many challenges to crafting policy decisions that lead to healthy microbiomes. Decisions about our collective built environments are distributed across actors and stakeholders, so it is often unclear where policies could be advanced. What is needed is a conceptual foundation that would support the strategic development of built environments that foster healthy microbiomes.... Read more »

Melinda Pettigrew, PhD, is Dean of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of respiratory tract infections, the microbiome, and the One Health threat of antibiotic resistance. The bacterial pathogens that she studies asymptomatically colonize mucosal surfaces, such as the tissues that line the inside of the nose,... Read more »

A discussion led by Dean Nancy Messonnier, MD, Bryson Distinguished Professor in Public Health, and other Gillings School leaders. This event is student-focused with discussions centered around the current professional and academic public health landscape. Topics include: Executive orders Research data accessibility Practicum expectations and results Career support View the event flyer here!

The panel discussion with nutrition experts, researchers, and humanitarian health practitioners will highlight global food security and nutrition challenges of populations facing climate crises, wars, and conflicts and examine the role and impact of humanitarian interventions in complex emergencies and future crises. See the flyer for the list of speakers, event time and place with... Read more »