
Gillings Virtual Student Engagement
Explore resources and events from the Gillings School, UNC and the community
January
Read more/less.Student Global Health Committee General Body Meeting
The Student Global Health Committee is excited to announce the theme of this year’s GillingsX event: Resilience in Times of Crises.
GillingsX is an annual event hosted by the Student Global Health Committee where Gillings students make 10-15-minute TEDx-style presentations to highlight inspiring projects, findings and personal experiences in advancing global health. Interested in being a speaker for this year’s event? Find more details on the event and application process at the Student Global Health Committee page.
Join us for our next general body meeting on Wednesday, Jan 27, 12:30 – 1 p.m. Register online and follow us on social media at @sghc_unc to stay in the loop!
Wednesday, January 27 | 5:00 p.m.
Wind Down Wednesday: Mental Fitness Series: Radical Self Care with Dawna Jones
Friday, January 29 | Noon
International Student Support Pod – #1 Spring Semester
Friday, January 29 | Noon – 2:00 p.m.
Womxn in Healthcare Leadership Symposium 2021: Leveraging Your Power
Please join WHL for our 2021 Annual Symposium on January 29th from 12-2PM on zoom! Register here.
We look forward to seeing you there! More information is included in the registration link, as well as on our LinkedIn page and on Instagram @unc_whl !
Friday, January 29 | 5:00 p.m.
Gillings Black Student Support Pod
February
Read more/less.Gillings Game Night Event Series
Thursday, February 4 | 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Public Health Job Search Tips and Tricks
Thursday, February 4 | 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
The Long and Winding Road: My Journey as a Health Disparities Researcher
Ronny Bell, PhD, Professor of Social Sciences and Health Policy and Associate Director of Community Outreach and Engagement at Wake Forest School of Medicine
Friday, February 5 | 1:00 p.m.
Gillings Employer Spotlight (TBD)
Wednesday, February 10 | 5:00 p.m.
Wind Down Wednesday: Mental Fitness Series: Identity and Self Worth, Speaker Angenette Crume, Mental Health Clinician and Self-Esteem Coach
Friday, February 12 | 1:00 p.m.
Gillings Employer Spotlight (TBD)
Tuesday, February 16 | 5:00 p.m.
Gillings Game Night Event Series
Thursday, February 18 | 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Public Health Job Search Tips and Tricks
Friday, February 19 | Noon
International Student Support Pod – Spring #2
Friday, February 19 | 5:00 p.m.
Gillings Black Student Support Pod
Wednesday, February 24 | 5:00 p.m.
Wind Down Wednesday: Mental Fitness Series: Internalized Perfection, Speaker, Jean Semelfort, Jr. Licensed Professional Counselor and founder of the Cactus Center
Friday, February 26 | 1:00 p.m.
Gillings Employer Spotlight (TBD)
March
Read more/less.Wind Down Wednesday: Mental Fitness Series: How to Fail Better, speaker Shirin Eskandani, Personal Coach and founder of Wholehearted Coaching
Thursday, March 4 | 5:00 p.m.
Quickly Craft a Cover Letter That Makes a Difference
Tuesday, March 9 | 5:00 p.m.
Gillings Game Night Event Series
Wednesday, March 10 | 5:00 p.m.
Wind Down Wednesday: Mental Fitness Series: Burn Out and the Stress Cycle, Speaker, Jill Triana, owner and Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor at Capital Counseling
Thursday, March 18 | 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
LinkedIn Part I – How to Create your LinkedIn Profile
Friday, March 19 | 1:00 p.m.
Gillings Employer Spotlight (TBD)
Friday, March 19 | 5:00 p.m.
Gillings Black Student Support Pod
Tuesday, March 23 | 5:00 p.m.
Gillings Game Night Event Series
Wednesday, March 24 | 5:00 p.m.
Wind Down Wednesday: Mental Fitness Series: Microaffirmations: Small Acts…Big Impact, Speaker, Candice Powell Director, Carolina Covenant
Thursday, March 25 | TBA
Gillings Student Success Seminar with Dr. Andre Brown
View event flyer (PDF).
April
Read more/less.Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week
Friday, March 26 | Noon
International Student Support Pod – Spring #3
Tuesday, April 6 | 5:00 p.m.
Gillings Game Night Event Series
Wednesday, April 7 | 5:00 p.m.
Wind Down Wednesday: Mental Fitness Series: Supporting the LGBTQ Community in Times of Crisis, Speaker, Dr. Brad Johnson, Clinical Associate Professor, UNC Greensboro
Thursday, April 8 | 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
LinkedIn Part II – How to Leverage LinkedIn for Career Success
Wednesday, April 14 | 5:00 p.m.
Wind Down Wednesday: Mental Fitness Series: What is Your New Normal? with Stephanie N. Briscoe, Clinical Director, Mirror 2 the Heart Counseling Services
Thursday, April 15 | 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
LinkedIn Part III – Unleashing the Power of LinkedIn
Thursday, April 22 | 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Salary Negotiation (Collaboration w/ MSC)
Friday, April 23 | 5:00 p.m.
Gillings Black Student Support Pod
Friday, April 30 | Noon
International Student Support Pod – Spring #4
Gillings School Student Activities, Organizations and Community Events
General Links
- UNC Gillings Student Organizations
- Carolina Union
- UNC Graduate School Events
- HeelLife
- UNC Gillings Alumni Events
- UNC Alumni Association
- Get Involved with UNC Campus Rec
- Visit Chapel Hill
- Chapelboro.com
- Ackland Art Museum
- Carolina Community Garden
Health and Wellness
A message from Dean Sims-Evans (PDF)
Mental Health and Wellness
- Coping with Stress during COVID (Centers for Disaster Control and Prevention)
- 7 Tips for Mental Fitness (Department of Homeland Security)
- Wellness Resources from the NC Department of Health and Human Services
- Resources from the Mental Wellness Awareness Association
- Emotional Wellness Toolkit (National Institutes of Health)
- Gillings School Culture of Health
- Peers for Progress Support Pods (View Existing Pods, Start a Pod, or Register a Pod)
- Healthy Heels – Support Resources
Fitness
- YMCA Health and Fitness Videos
- Les Mills on Demand At Home Workouts
- 10 Instagram Live Free Workouts (USA Today)
- Running Training Plans (Runner’s World)
- Free Yoga Classes from CorePower Yoga
Virtual Nutrition
Peer2Peer
Peer2Peer is an undergraduate and graduate student-led initiative that provides peer support in the form of one-on-session with peer responders. Through these conversations, we support anonymity and individual autonomy. Peer support connects us to each other through shared experiences.
We hope our Peer Responders’ diverse range of lived experiences can help students across the country find comfort during this unprecedented time. We encourage individuals to use this platform as an avenue to talk about what may be on their minds– both mental and non-mental health-related.
Peer2Peer values vulnerability, empathy, and perspectives that are innate to peer support. We hope students across the country will seek support through Peer2Peer and encourage those around them to do the same.
Connect with Peer2Peer Services.
Lectures and Webinars
Gillings School Series
- Emergency Preparedness, Ethics and Equity Series
- Building COVID-19 Research Collaborations Webinar Series
- Dean’s Lecture Series
- Dean’s Inclusive Excellence Lecture Series
- School Events
Outside of the Gillings School
- Friday Morning Conference Series
- Tar Heels Together – LIVE
- Office for Diversity and Inclusion Events
- North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute Webinars
- APHA and National Academy of Medicine: COVID-19 Conversations
- Consortium of Universities for Global Health Webinars
Career Services
Gillings School Career Services
What We’re Listening to and Reading
Podcasts
Race, History, and Anti-Racist Education
LGBTQ
Public Health, Wellness and Nutrition
- Flip the Script
- Emerging Infectious Diseases: CDC
- Ted Health
- Food Heaven Podcast
- The Doctor’s Farmacy
- Roots of Change
Antiracism
- Still Processing: Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris
- Jemele Hill is Unbothered (Spotify, Apple Music)
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
- About Race
- Momentum: A race forward podcast
- Seeing White
- Pod for the Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
- 1619 (from the New York Times)
- Intersectionality Matters! (from The African American Policy Forum)
- Throughline (from NPR)
- Yo, Is This Racist?
- Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsey
Books
Race and Culture
- When They Call You a Terrorist
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race
Public Health
- Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
- To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
- Mud Creek Medicine: The Life of Eula Hall and the Fight for the Appalachia
- The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the Poor
Antiracism
- Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Robin DiAngelo)
- So You Want to Talk About Race (Ijeoma Oluo)
- How To Be An Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi)
- Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See Think and Do (Jennifer L. Eberhardt)
- Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Claude Steele)
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi)
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Renni Eddo-Lodge)
- This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work (Tiffany Jewell)
- Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson)
- The End of Policing (Alex S. Vitale)
Movies and Videos
- 13th (2016)
- I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
- Teach Us All (2017)
- Just Mercy (2019)
- The Hate U Give (2018)
- When They See Us (2019)
- The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)
- NY Times Film Club: 26 Mini-Films for Exploring Race, Bias and Identity With Students
- TEDTalk Playlist: Talks to help you understand racism
- TED: Implicit Bias
- Moving the Race Conversation Forward
- What is Systemic Racism? (Race Forward video series)
- Diversity Training Isn’t Enough!: Racism, Trauma, and Justice (with Dr. Joy A. Degruy)
Web Articles and Links
Antiracism
- RACISM 101: UNDERSTANDING RACE AND RACISM
- Racism Kills: Why Many Are Declaring It a Public Health Crisis
- The Atlantic: Ta-Nehisi Coates “The Case for Reparations”
- Racial Equity Glossary
- Code of Ethics for White Anti-Racists
- How Did We Get Here?: 163 of The Atlantic’s writing on race and racism in America
- Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture
- Hey, you got a little racism stuck in your teeth.
Additional Resources
Antiracism
Archived Webinar Recordings
Student Success Seminars
Tips on Self-Advocacy for Graduate Students and Early Career Professionals with Dr. Andre Brown [View Recording]
Wind Down Wednesday Series
What is your New Normal? with Stephanie Briscoe [View Recording.]
Identity and Self Worth with Angenette Crume [View Recording]
Radical Self Care with Dawna Jones, Assistant Dean for Students [View Recording]
Grief and Loss with Greg Bocchino [View Recording]
Managing Your Attention with Shekinah Fashaw [View Recording]
Food and our Health with Jonathan Earnest [View Recording on YouTube.]
Optimizing Your Space and Time with Betty-Shannon Prevatt [Watch on YouTube]
Harnessing Your Strengths and Resilience with Candice Fisher Webb [Watch on YouTube]
Alleviating Stress and Anxiety with Dr. Kamala Uzzell [Watch on YouTube]
Mental Fitness Series: How to Fail Better, speaker Shirin Eskandani, Personal Coach and founder of Wholehearted Coaching [View Recording]
Burn Out and the Stress Cycle with Jill Triana, Owner and Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor at Capital Counseling [View Recording]
Microaffirmations: Small Act…Big Impact with Candice Powell, director of Carolina Covenant [View Recording]
International Student Resources
COVID-19 Emergency Funding Resources for International Students