Gillings Virtual Student Engagement
Explore resources and events from the Gillings School, UNC, and the community
Gillings School Student Activities, Organizations & 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
Gillings Instagram Photo Contest
Monthly contest announced via Instagram. Prizes are Gillings Swag giveaways mailed to your home address.
How to win:
- Follow UNC Public Health on Instagram
- Like the post on Instagram that announces when the contest will begin each month
- Post one photo using the hashtag #Gillings2020
Wind Down Wednesday Series: Wednesdays from 5-6 pm
August 26: Optimizing Your Space and Time (Betty-Shannon Prevatt)
September 9: Harnessing Your Strengths and Resilience (Candice Fisher Webb)
September 23: Alleviating Stress and Anxiety (Dr. Kamala Uzzell)
October 14: Avoiding and/or Eliminating Distractions (Shekinah Fashaw)
October 28: Making Healthy Food Choices (Jonathan Earnest)
November 4: Radical Self Care (Dawna Jones)
November 11: Managing Grief and Loss During the Holidays (Dr. Greg Bocchino)
Support Pod for Black Students: Fridays at 5 pm
July 17: Natiaya Neal and Melonie Clarke
August 21: Patsy Polston and Dana Rice
September 18: Adia Ware and Kimberly Truesdale
October 9: Deshana Cabasan-Hunte and Derrick Matthews
November 6: Chantel Martin, Stephanie Baker and Bahby Banks
December 4: Charletta Sims Evans, Oj McGhee and Jeffrey Simms
Health and Wellness
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)
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 mind– 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
- 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
Fall Schedule of Events
Please register on Handshake to attend these events.
Public Health Job Search Tips and Tricks
Thursday, August 27, 5 – 6 p.m.
Quickly Craft a Cover Letter That Makes a Difference
Thursday, September 3, 5 – 6 p.m.
LinkedIn Part I – How to Create your LinkedIn Profile
Thursday, September 10, 5 – 6 p.m.
LinkedIn Part II – How to Leverage LinkedIn for Career Success
Thursday, September 17, 5 – 6 p.m.
LinkedIn Part III – Unleashing the Power of LinkedIn
Thursday, October 1, 5 – 6 p.m.
Lunch and Learn – Public Health Data Science
Friday, October 2, Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch and Learn – Maternal, Child and Family Health
Friday, October 9, Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Diversity in Public Health: Navigating the Field as a Person of Color
Thursday, October 22, 3 – 5 p.m
Career Planning for the Future
Thursday, October 29, 5 – 6 p.m.
What We’re Listening to and Reading
Podcasts
Race, History, and Anti-Racist Education
LGBTQ
Public Health, Wellness & 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