Events / Activities / News / Books

Our endangered values: America’s Moral Crisis, by Jimmy Carter (review in the New York Review of Books).

Joycelyn Elders, M.D. From sharecropper’s daughter to Surgeon General of the United States of America, by Joycelyn Elders with David Chanoff. NY, Avon Books, 1996.

Betrayal of trust: the collapse of global public health, by Laurie Garrett.

Bartleby.com online reference books, including Gray’s Anatomy and William Strunk, Jr. The elements of style.

Fun

UNC Epidemiology events calendar from the UNC Epidemiology Students Organization (ESO)

EpiGrad Today the epidemiology graduate’s fashion magazine

Global health

ASHOKA - nuturing social entrepreneurs

UNC-CH collaborations in Malawi

Information resources

NC LIVE offers the people of North Carolina online access to complete articles from over 16,000 newspapers, journals, magazines, and encyclopedias, indexing for over 25,000 periodical titles, access to over 25,000 online print and audio books, and hundreds of PBS video files including Ken Burns’ The Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz, selected episodes from American Experience and Frontline and (soon) children’s series Cyberchase and Liberty’s Kids.

EurekaAlert, news releases on science and health topics (AAAS)

Finding funding sources and awards made (UNC Research & Economic Development)

National Library of Medicine - Health Services Research and Public Health

Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce

Health data tools and statistics

Jobs and Career (and fellowships)

UNC Epidemiology financial aid information

UNC School of Public Health school-wide fellowships

Science careers from the journal Science includes career advice, tools, how-to guides, and the Minority Scientists Network

UNC-CH University Career Services and Carolina Jobs Program (includes part-time jobs)

UNC-CH General Alumni Association career page (access requires a GAA user ID and password)

Careers in public health (includes list of permanent and temporary jobs, internships, fellowships, grants and awards, international opportunities, and a link to the UNC-CH SPH Careers Office (job listing)

Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at one time had a register for graduate research assistant jobs

Department of Epidemiology financial aid information

A few of the many sources of public health and research jobs at UNC-CH and environs

• UNC-CH research centers, including Carolina Population Center, Cecil Sheps Center for Health Services Research, Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, Highway Safety Research Center, Injury Prevention Research Center, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, NC Institute for Public Health
• American Social Health Association
• Family Health International
• Research Triangle Institute
• Duke University Medical Center

Job listing webpages identified by the American College of Epidemiology

Life

The Transcendental Meditation Program
   “Transcendental Meditation Appears in the Classroom” (NPR Day to Day, 27 August 2007)
   “TM in the Schools” (NBC Today Show, 2 Sept 2003)
   “TM and ADHD” (nonpharmocologic management of TM)
   “Consciousness, creativity, and the brain” David Lynch’s talk at the University of Washington
   “Does the college experience damage your brain?”First Annual National Brain Conference at the Maharishi University of Management (article)
   “Does the college experience damage your brain?” Presentation by Dr. Fred Travis at the Western Association of Schools and Colleges 2006 Annual Meeting (Fred Travis slides - 40MB ppt)

Review in the Financial Times of HAPPINESS: Lessons from a New Science by Richard Layard, 2005.
   “Transcripts from the Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures, March 2003

Celebrate Beethoven's birthday– Morning Edition, National Public Radio (December 16, 1770)

TheClassicalStation.org (WCPE Radio, classical music 24/7)

Mercury levels in fish, NC

TIAA-CREF
   Optimal Asset Location and Allocation with Taxable and Tax-Deferred Investing

North Carolina

Tar Heel bus tour: 10 years of taking new faculty to North Carolina

A consumer’s guide to health insurance and health programs in North Carolina (NC Institute of Medicine)

North Carolina Progress Board – Interesting data and recommendations for North Carolina (e.g., Information Portal and State Data)

Organizations

Alan Guttmacher Institute

American College of Epidemiology

American Public Health Association

American Social Health Association

SIECUS

Southern Poverty Law Center

UNAIDS

Skills

William Strunk, Jr., The elements of style

Ask Dr. Math

Vic

American College of Epidemiology award for leadership and distinguished service, 2004 [plaque]

Appreciation for 21 years of teaching EPID168: Fundamentals of Epidemiology [plaque]

Appreciation from UNC-SPH Minority Student Caucus, 2007 [plaque]

Honorary membership in the Frank Porter Graham Graduate & Professional Student Honor Society, April 2008 [certificate] [program notes]

Quit for Life - A quit-smoking program for Black Americans.

The negative health consequences of traditional sexual morality: a public health perspective. Victor J. Schoenbach, UNC SPH Department of Health Education, Major Paper, 1975 (Godfrey M. Hochbaum, Ph.D., Adviser).

Notes about the role of epidemiology in public health

Some of my contributions over the years

“Strategies for success”

Faculty profile

Potpouri

Retrevo reviews and ratings of consumer electronics (PC Magazine, Jan 2008)

Songza (PC Magazine, Jan 2008)

TV Trip (PC Magazine, Jan 2008)

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