Global Health Events and Media
Global Health Events Calendar
Do not miss out on global health events! Check out our calendar of local global health events.
Gillings Global Health Travel Blog
UNC Gillings students put what they learn in the classroom into pratice during their practicum. Students share their field experiences from around the world.
This seminar focuses on strategies to reimagine and decolonize global health training in the U.S and internationally. Dr. Deshira Wallace, Assistant Professor of Health Behavior at Gillings, discusses how MPH training and classroom-based learning in the U.S. needs to be restructured and reframed. Dr. Matthew DeCamp, Associate Professor in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities Division of General Internal Medicine at University of Colorado, and Dr. Limbanazo Matandika, Research Fellow in the Center for Bioethics in Eastern and Southern Africa (CEBESA) at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Malawi discuss strategies to decolonize and democratize international field-based global health training. The session was moderated by Dr. Ben Chi, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UNC.
The Intersection of Global Health and Inclusive Excellence Seminar Series
Dr. Jennifer Ho, Director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts and Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado Boulder presents on Asian American Identities and Addressing Anti-Asian Racism. Dr. Ho discusses what it means to be Asian American, the history of anti-Asian racism from the 19th century to our present day, and things that all of us can do to work for an end not just to anti-Asian racism but all forms of racism and intersectional oppression.
The Intersection of Global Health and Inclusive Excellence Seminar Series
Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija is Chair of the African Union, African Vaccine Delivery Alliance and Founder of the Emergency Coordination Centre, Nigeria (ECC), as well as the former Chief Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria. She currently serves as the World Health Organization's Special Envoy of the Access to the COVID Tools Accelerator. She reflects on lessons learned from global response to the COVID-19 pandemic and how we can move toward global health equity.
