Update: Gillings Student Affairs will meet with students in person and virtually. For all inquiries, please email Student Affairs at SPH-OSA@unc.edu. If this is an urgent matter, please call (919) 966-2499.

Welcome to Student Affairs!

Gillings
Office of Student Affairs

"We aim to enhance student development by providing a supportive and safe environment in which students can achieve academic, social and professional success."

Student Affairs at the Gillings School of Global Public Health provides an array of services and resources to prospective, admitted and current students. We aim to enhance student development by providing a supportive and safe environment in which you can achieve academic, social and professional success.

We coordinate major schoolwide programs such as orientations, a student activities fair, a career and internship fair and professional development workshops. We work to recruit excellent students and offer career services for current students and recent alumni.

Getting involved is easy at the Gillings School. We have more than 20 active student organizations. These organizations focus on global issues, diversity initiatives, community advocacy and healthy lifestyles. Our student organizations sponsor educational, philanthropic and just-plain-fun events including:

  • Gillings X, a series of TEDx-like talks by students about global health issues;
  • The Gillings Games, a fall mini-Olympics that allow students to get acquainted while exercising together;
  • Journal clubs, lectures and tailgating socials, among other events.

Dean and Directors

Charletta Sims Evans

Charletta Sims Evans

Charletta Sims Evans
Associate Dean for Student Affairs
919-966-2499
simsevan@email.unc.edu


Greg Bocchino

Greg Bocchino

Greg Bocchino
Senior Executive Director of Academic Advising and Student Affairs
919-966-0064
bocchino@email.unc.edu


Jonathan Earnest

Jonathan Earnest

Jonathan Earnest
Director of Admissions
919-445-1170
earnestj@email.unc.edu


U'Ronda Higgs

U’Ronda Higgs

U’Ronda Higgs
Assistant Director of Academic Advising
BSPH, MS and PhD Nutrition
PhD Maternal Child Health
919-962-7869
uhiggs@email.unc.edu


Adia Ware

Adia Ware

Adia Ware
Assistant Director of Academic Advising
Residential MPH Environmental Health Solutions
Health Equity, Social Justice and Human Rights
Health Policy, Population Health for Clinicians and Public Health Data Science
919-962-3807
aware@unc.edu


Cornelius Williams

Cornelius Williams
Assistant Director of Admissions
919-445-1170
cornwill@unc.edu


Admissions


Kristen Drust Hurdle

Kristen Drust Hurdle

Kristen Hurdle
Admissions Coordinator
919-843-2755
kdhurdle@email.unc.edu


Andrew Huggins

Andrew Huggins

Andrew Huggins
Admissions Coordinator
919-843-2706
andrewhuggins@unc.edu


Jenna Keith

Jenna Keith

Jenna Keith
Admissions Coordinator
919-843-2644
jmkeith@email.unc.edu


Ania Wellere

Ania Wellere
Student Affairs Graduate Assistant
919-445-1170
sph-admissions@unc.edu


Academic Advising Team


Yolonda Childs

Yolonda Childs
Academic Coordinator
BSPH and MSPH, Health Policy Management
MHA Residential,
PhD, Health Behavior
childsyo@unc.edu


Trina Gabriel
Academic Coordinator
Residential MPH: Nutrition, Nutrition and Dietetics
Online MPH: Applied Epidemiology, Leadership in Practice (Last Names Q-Z)
Nutrition, Nutrition and Dietetics
gabriel1@unc.edu


William Gillison
Academic Coordinator
Residential MPH Applied Epidemiology, Global Health,
Health Behavior, Maternal, Child & Family Health
919-962-3383
wgilliso@unc.edu


Melissa Hobgood

Melissa Hobgood

Melissa Hobgood
Academic Coordinator
BSPH, MS, and PhD Biostatistics
919-966-7256
mhobgood@bios.unc.edu


Joe Jacobs
Academic Coordinator
Residential MPH: Leadership In Practice
Online MPH: MPH Health Policy, Leadership In Practice (Last Names A-P)
MPH Program in Asheville: Place Based Health
919-962-3398
mjj0216@email.unc.edu


Jennifer Moore

Jennifer Moore

Jennifer Moore
Academic Coordinator
BSPH Environmental Health Sciences
MS, MSPH, MSEE, and PhD Environmental Sciences and Engineering
919-966-3844
jenjoyce@email.unc.edu


Kim Sieler

Kim Sieler

Kim Sieler 
Academic Coordinator
PhD, Executive DrPH, and Executive MHA, Health Policy and Management
919-966-7364
krsieler@email.unc.edu


Bretney Waller

Bretney Waller
Academic Coordinator
MSCR and PhD Epidemiology
919-966-2499
bnwaller@unc.edu


Course Management and Class Scheduling

Daniel Collins
Registrar
919-966-6405
daniel.collins@unc.edu


Events Management

Tiffany Edouard
Student Affairs Events Manager
919-966-5294
Tse7@email.unc.edu


Business Services

Natiaya Neal
Business Officer
919-966-2499
msneal@unc.edu


Awards and Funding

Sarah Kitchens headshot

Sarah Kitchens

Sarah Kitchens
Awards and Funding Coordinator
919-966-7387
sarah_kitchens@unc.edu


Career Services

Lidia Colato Raez

Lidia Colato Raez
Career Services Coordinator
919-966-4038
lidiatha@email.unc.edu


Derek Just

Derek Just
Student and Alumni Career Services Coordinator
919-966-9139
derekj@email.unc.edu


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Phone: 919-445-1170
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135 Dauer Drive
263 Rosenau Hall, CB #7400
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7400
(919) 966-2499