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Gratitude

It’s almost a cliché to talk about Thanksgiving and gratitude. Gratitude platitudes surround the holiday, just like the newspaper inserts for Black Friday specials. We eat too much, often remarking about it while continuing to eat (which is ironic for...

Published Mon, Nov 29 2010 10:54 AM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health

Global universities

Being a global university Wildavsky’s premises I just finished Ben Wildavsky’s 2010 book, The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World. His thesis is that the global academic order is transforming in far-reaching ways (p.3), and...

Published Mon, Nov 29 2010 8:49 PM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health, Global

Unequal Health Improvement

200 years of health in 4 minutes! You might have seen a 4-minute video Jimmy Rosen, MBA, MSPH (alumnus, InterSouth Partners, and member of our Public Health Foundation Board) sent me. If you haven’t, it’s really amazing. Hans Rosling, Professor of International...

Published Mon, Dec 13 2010 1:38 PM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health, North Carolina

A Year in the Life…of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

1/1/11: Now that’s an interesting number! New year, new hopes and new opportunities! In spite of a very difficult economy, our faculty members had continued success competing for grants and contracts. Between 1/1/2010 and 12/21/2010, they were awarded...

Published Tue, Jan 04 2011 2:33 PM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health, diversity, Technology, Global, North Carolina, Health Care Reform, Students, Water & Sanitation

Violence, Fraud (maybe), What a World!

Sad and angry about Giffords’ shooting Like most readers, I was shocked and saddened by the senseless shooting of Gabrielle Giffords. Aside from how badly I feel for her and her family, I am angered once again about how easy it is to buy guns in this...

Published Wed, Jan 12 2011 9:53 AM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health

Trying to get it right

Tough budgets; hard times Chancellor Thorp’s excellent messages about the state of the North Carolina budget, and by extension, the University’s budget situation, tell us that the rocky ride is not over. President Ross and Chancellor Thorp have directed...

Published Mon, Jan 24 2011 11:40 AM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health, North Carolina

Trouble around the world

Protesters in Egypt; a heinous crime in Uganda Anyone who cares about free expression has to be repulsed by the way the Egyptian government is closing down access to the internet, limiting free expression and firing on its own citizens. I admire the people...

Published Tue, Feb 01 2011 9:40 AM by Monday Morning

Filed under: Students

Career fair, faculty prestige and Wilkerson lecture

Jobs for our students I was really impressed to walk into our atrium last week and see table after table of employers—about 40 of them—and hundreds of students for out annual Career and Internship Fair. Thanks to all the companies who participated! They...

Published Wed, Feb 09 2011 10:08 AM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health, book recommendation, Students, lecture, award

Deciding on UNC, who’s in charge of our health and the budget…still

Why come to UNC-Chapel Hill? There is an interesting conversation on a student forum in which students are discussing whether to go to Columbia for a degree in health promotion or to UNC-Chapel Hill for health policy. (Of course, I think they should come...

Published Fri, Feb 18 2011 9:38 AM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health, North Carolina, Students

Diversity and inclusion make us better, stronger and smarter

Wonderful lecture by Isabel Wilkerson Last Friday night, we hosted a lecture by The Warmth of Other Suns’ author Isabel Wilkerson, with co-sponsors the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Center for the Study of the American South and Center...

Published Tue, Feb 22 2011 6:30 PM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health, diversity, North Carolina, Students

Great end to Black History Month!

UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Minority Health Conference Our minority health events started with a warm, memorable evening Thursday night—the Minority Alumni Reunion. One of HBHE chair Jo Anne Earp’s accomplished graduates, Edna Davis-Brown...

Published Wed, Mar 02 2011 8:43 AM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health, diversity, Students

Tribes and Teams

What a game! That was a great men’s basketball game Saturday night! We beat Duke 81-67! We watched on TV. The Dean Dome must have been amazing with all the excitement. Reading Tribes I just finished a short but powerful book—Tribes by Seth Godin. It’s...

Published Mon, Mar 07 2011 7:31 PM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health, book recommendation, North Carolina, basketball

Disaster of epic proportions

Earthquake and tsunami in Japan Aren’t the disasters that have occurred in Japan horrifying and overwhelming? I hadn’t really understood why a tsunami is so dangerous and powerful until reading some of the explanations in the press. I’ve lived through...

Published Mon, Mar 14 2011 4:41 PM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health, Global

Springing forward in Chapel Hill

Accelerating…everything In a 2011 presentation, President Emeritus Mote of the University of Maryland wrote that acceleration characterizes everything from information to expectations. Whether it is a response to the email that was sent seconds ago or...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2011 3:18 PM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health

Organizational Complexity

“A radical restructure is the only way to solve the systemic problems of the world’s biggest funder of biomedical research,” argues Michael M. Crow. In a provocative article in Nature about the future of National Institutes of Health (NIH), Crowe...

Published Tue, Apr 05 2011 5:46 PM by Monday Morning

Filed under: public health

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Gratitude

Global universities

Unequal Health Improvement

A Year in the Life…of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

Violence, Fraud (maybe), What a World!

Trying to get it right

Trouble around the world

Career fair, faculty prestige and Wilkerson lecture

Deciding on UNC, who’s in charge of our health and the budget…still

Diversity and inclusion make us better, stronger and smarter

Great end to Black History Month!

Tribes and Teams

Disaster of epic proportions

Springing forward in Chapel Hill

Organizational Complexity