Update: Gillings Student Affairs will meet with students in person and virtually. For all inquiries, please email Student Affairs at [email protected]. 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
[email protected]


Greg Bocchino

Greg Bocchino

Greg Bocchino
Senior Executive Director for Career Services and Professional Development
919-966-0064
[email protected]


Jonathan Earnest

Jonathan Earnest

Jonathan Earnest
Senior Executive Director for Enrollment Management
919-445-1170
[email protected]


Gemma Herrera

Gemma Herrera
Assistant Director of Admissions
919-445-1170
[email protected]


U'Ronda Higgs

U’Ronda Higgs

U’Ronda Higgs
Assistant Director of Academic Advising
919-962-7869
[email protected]


Adia Ware

Adia Ware

Adia Ware
Senior Executive Director for Academic Advising and Student Success
919-962-3807
[email protected]


Cornelius Williams

Cornelius Williams
Assistant Director of Admissions
919-445-1170
[email protected]


Career Services

Lidia Colato Raez

Lidia Colato Raez
Career Services Coordinator
[email protected]


Derek Just

Derek Just
Assistant Director for Student and Alumni Career Services
919-966-9139
[email protected]


Enrollment Management Staff


Rachel Evans

Rachel Evans
Admissions Coordinator
919-966-3165
[email protected]


Kristen Drust Hurdle

Kristen Drust Hurdle

Kristen Hurdle
Admissions Coordinator
919-843-2755
[email protected]


Andrew Huggins

Andrew Huggins

Andrew Huggins
Admissions Communication Associate
919-843-2706
[email protected]


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Sarah Kitchens

Sarah Kitchens
Awards and Funding Coordinator
919-966-7387
[email protected]


Jenna Keith

Jenna Keith

Jenna Keith
Admissions Coordinator
919-843-2644
[email protected]

 

 


Academic Advising Team


Mirlesna Azor

Mirlesna Azor
Academic Coordinator
[email protected]


Yolonda Childs

Yolonda Childs
Academic Coordinator
[email protected]


Trina Gabriel

Trina Gabriel

Trina Gabriel
Academic Coordinator
[email protected]


William Gillison

William Gillison
Academic Coordinator
919-962-3383
[email protected]


Melissa Hobgood

Melissa Hobgood

Melissa Hobgood
Academic Coordinator
919-966-7256
[email protected]


Joe Jacobs
Academic Coordinator
919-962-3398
[email protected]


Jennifer Moore

Jennifer Moore

Jennifer Moore
Academic Coordinator
919-966-3844
[email protected]


Kim Sieler

Kim Sieler

Kim Sieler 
Academic Coordinator
919-966-7364
[email protected]


Bretney Waller

Bretney Waller
Academic Coordinator
919-966-2499
[email protected]


Events Management

Doneshia Webster

Doneshia Webster
Student Affairs Event Manager
919-966-5294
[email protected]


Business Services

Natiaya Neal

Natiaya Neal
Business Officer
919-966-2499
[email protected]


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

Student Events

March 27
12:00 pm
1:00 pm
Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series: Bussarawan “Puk” Teerawichitchainan
March 27
1:30 pm
2:15 pm
Career Services Spring Series: Common Networking Mistakes and Fixes
March 27
5:00 pm
7:00 pm
GillingsX: GLOBAL HEALTH SYSTEMS IN TRANSITION
March 31
12:30 pm
1:30 pm
Gerardo Heiss Cardiovascular Epidemiology Seminar- 2026 Spring