Bangladesh at 50: Advances in Health

230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Dr. Mushtaque Chowdhury is the former Vice Chair of BRAC, the largest and among the most celebrated non-governmental organization globally. Previously, he was its Executive Director, founding Director of the Research and Evaluation Division and founding Dean of the BRAC University James P. Grant School of Public Health. He founded "Bangladesh Education Watch" and "Bangladesh... Read more »

Student-Led Town Hall Meeting

230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Gillings Student Government and Minority Student Caucus are hosting a Town Hall for the Gillings Student body to express their concerns and thoughts about the events that unfolded earlier this semester. This town hall will also serve as a safe space for students to let us know the types of support and action they would... Read more »

Alumni Coffee Chat

230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Register on handshake: https://unc.joinhandshake.com/login

Dissertation Defense: Hannah Friedman

230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Doctoral candidate Hannah Friedman will present her dissertation research, titled "Quality of Care and Hospital Bypass Among Rural Heart Failure Patients." Rosenau Hall 230 or via Zoom.

Nutrition Faculty Candidate Seminar with Dr. Katsu Funai

230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Please join the Department of Nutrition for a faculty candidate seminar with Dr. Katsu Funai. Dr. Funai is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology at The University of Utah. His research studies the molecular mechanisms that regulate skeletal muscle metabolism and the effect of obesity on cellular homeostasis. This... Read more »

Nutrition Faculty Seminar with Dr. Arion Kennedy

230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Please join the Department of Nutrition for a faculty candidate seminar with Dr. Arion Kennedy. Dr. Kennedy is currently an Assistant Professor of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry at NC State University. Her research focuses of the impact of the innate and adaptive immune system on obesity-associated metabolic disorders. This event will be held in 230... Read more »

Nutrition Faculty Candidate Seminar with Dr. Matthew Ulgherait

230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Please join the Department of Nutrition for a faculty candidate seminar with Dr. Matthew Ulgherait. Dr. Ulgherait is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia University. His research focuses on the microbiome and the amelioration of age-related intestinal diseases in Drosophila. This event will be held in 230 Rosenau Hall and via Zoom. Contact Rachel Thimke... Read more »

Faculty Candidate Seminar with Dr. Kelsey Fisher-Wellman

230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Please join the Department of Nutrition for a faculty candidate seminar with Dr. Kelsey Fisher-Wellman. Dr. Fisher-Wellman is currently an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University's Department of Physiology. His research focuses on the ways in which mitochondria are bioenergetically tailored to their respective host cell's physiology and how this process can be disrupted in... Read more »

Using Community-Engaged Mixed Methods to Inform Chronic Disease Prevention Among Rural Appalachian Women

230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Jessica R. Thompson, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center. Her research focuses on community-based approaches, chronic disease prevention, Appalachian women's health and systems science. She recently received a Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) titled "Reducing Lung Cancer Risk Among Appalachian Women Using... Read more »

Social network analysis: An opportunity to surmount HIV disparities among racial/ethnic, sexual, and gender minority communities

230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Please join the Department of Health Behavior for Dr. Cho-Hee Shrader's job talk, titled “Social network analysis: An opportunity to surmount HIV disparities among racial/ethnic, sexual, and gender minority communities" Dr. Shrader is a prevention scientist and a postdoctoral research fellow in the ICAP at Columbia University Global HIV Implementation Science Program. In-Person, The Fred... Read more »

Centering Women’s Health: Enhancing the Health of BIPOC Women & Birthing People through CBPR & Racial Equity Approaches

230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Please join the Department of Health Behavior for Dr. Kristin Black's job talk, titled “Centering Women's Health: Enhancing the Health of BIPOC Women & Birthing People through CBPR & Racial Equity Approaches.” Dr. Black is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Education and Promotion at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. Watch... Read more »

Policy and systems change to advance injury and violence prevention

230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Please join the Department of Health Behavior for Dr. Anna Austin's job talk, entitled “Policy and systems change to advance injury and violence prevention.” Dr. Austin is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health and Core Faculty at the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center. Watch live in Rosenau Hall... Read more »

Classroom Technology Orientation: Advanced Rooms

230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

As we start another successful semester of classes, the Gillings Audiovisual (AV) Services team will hold classroom technology orientations to familiarize users with room operations. AV staff will provide overviews and demonstrations on how to use the media equipment in four levels of classroom spaces. These orientations are set up primarily for instructors, teacher assistants and program... Read more »

Public Health Resume Tips & Tricks with Camille Mason

230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Get tips and tricks for resume-writing with Camille Mason, Career Services Coordinator. Thursday, January 16 5-6:15 p.m. 230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center)

Event Series Zoom Lunch & Learn Workshop

Zoom Lunch & Learn Workshop

230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Bring your lunch and join us for an overview of the campus' Zoom remote conferencing tool! Participants will have an opportunity to learn basic meeting functions through more advanced features. DATES: Wednesdays - November 6, November 20 and December 4 TIME: Noon - 1:30 p.m. PLACE: Mayes Center, Rosenau 230 To sign up, please access... Read more »