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.
The Intersection of Global Health and Inclusive Excellence Seminar Series
Dr. Anu Kumar, President & CEO of Ipas, has served in a non-profit executive position for 20 years and as CEO for four years. Ipas is an international non-profit organization with offices in 16 countries and work in many more. Dr. Kumar, a Gillings School alum, reflects on what global health organizations can and should do to decolonize global health and how we need to rethink the ways we are training global health practitioners in the U.S. to work locally and globally in public health.
Dr. Collins Airhihenbuwa, professor of health policy and behavioral sciences at Georgia State School of Public Health, presented on, Locating Decolonization in Anti-Racism Spaces: a New DEI Frontier in Public Health by. Dr. Airhihenbuwa reflected on what we can learn from the anti-racism movement in the U.S. and its efforts to decolonize global health.
This Gillings Humanitarian Health Initiative Seminar highlighted
- Dr. Dilshad Jaff, Gillings Humanitarian Fellow and Adjunct Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Health
- Dr. Benjamin Meier, Professor of Global Health Policy and UNC-Chapel Hill.
This year's theme was Breaking Down Barriers. Watch our three student speakers present on three diverse topics looking at breaking down barriers from Australia to Mongolia to the U.S.
The Gillings School hosted a webinar for incoming international students to help with their transition to the United States. Topics covered are: housing (2:00); arrival, transportation and more (7:20); academics (12:17); adjusting to the U.S. (28:24); weather (40:00); and resources (45:39). PowerPoint slides from 2018 International Student Question and Answer webinar. *Views expressed in the Q&A session are that of the student and not of UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
The Student Global Health Committee partnered with Population Connection to host a panel discussion on, “How Policies Hurt Women in the U.S. and Around the World.” Experts and activists discussed the impact of U.S. foreign and domestic policies (“Hyde” and “Helms” Amendments) on access to safe, legal abortion. Panelists included experts from Ipas, NARAL North Carolina, Population Connection Action Fund, and an award-winning author and activist, and the conversation was moderated by abortion rights expert and UNC Gillings professor, Sian Curtis.
March 2016
Marie Lina Excellent, master student in public health leadership, was selected to present an Ignite Talk on “Insights into Effective Leadership” at the Global Leadership Forum. She shared her research and experience with leadership in her home country of Haiti.
October 2015
Ted Trimble, Director of the Center for Global Health at the National Cancer Institute, presented the Global Oncology Lecture at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. The lecture was co-sponsored by the Gillings Global Gateway and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Lawrence O. Gostin, University Professor and the Founding Linda and Timothy O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law; Faculty Director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law; and Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on Public Health Law & Human Rights, presented the 2014 UNC Health and Human Rights Lecture, Imagining Global Health With Justice. The lecture was sponsored by the Center for Bioethics, UNC Public Policy, the Global Research Institute, and the Gillings Global Gateway.
September 2014
The Gillings School hosted the Ebola and Emerging Infectious Diseases Presentation and Panel Discussion sponsored by the UNC Institute of Global Health & Infectious Diseases. Video of the event can be seen below.
J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President & Director, Global Health Policy Center for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), spoke to students in the course, Interdisciplinary Perspective in Global Health, taught by Peggy Bentley and Mamie Sackey Harris. Students submitted questions to Dr. Morrison and his responses are below.
Steve Morrison CSIS-UNC from CSIS on Vimeo.
A couple Gillings students talk about working with UNC's Center for Galapagos Studies in the Galapagos Islands. Gillings Associate Professor Jill Stewart is the center's deputy director and Gillings Associate Dean for Global Health Peggy Bentley is the chair of the advisory board.
