Speaking

“Love this guy! Very relatable. By far the best speaker.” Participant evaluation

2023

October 30. “Decolonizing the Western Mind.” All-campus talk at St. Augustine’s University, Raleigh, NC.

September 26. “Siren calls that endanger public health." Keynote talk at the annual conference of the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA).

September 27. “The distinctive ethics of public health.” Workshop at the annual conference of the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA).

May 9. “Ethics and values for good public health practice and policies.” Workshop at the World Congress of Public Health, Rome, Italy.

May 10. “Public health ethics in the education and training of our public health.” Workshop at the World Congress of Public Health, Rome, Italy.

2022

September 7. “Responding to disinformation in public health.” Workshop at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique, Paris, France, Paris, France

March 9. “Moral courage in the COVID pandemic.” Preventive Medicine Residency Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

January 17. “Community diagnosis through network analysis.” Ecole des Haute Etudes en Santé Publique, Paris, France

2021

October 10. “Public health ethics.” Maastricht University, the Netherlands

September 27. “Climate changes mental health,” Plenary closing talk for the European WHO e-simulation, Ecole des Haute Etudes en Santé Publique, Paris, France

September 10. “Moral courage in public health leadership” Maastricht University, the Netherlands

August 27. “Methods to match the research question: systems thinking” Ecole des Haute Etudes en Santé Publique, Paris, France

June 28. “The work of a public health ethicist during COVID-19” EuroPubHealth+, Rennes, France

January 11. “Unmasked: NC COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution” panel discussion. Health Policy Collaborative, Wake Forest School of Medicine.

Teaching

Acclaim

“You are one of the best teachers I have come across and I am really lucky I got to learn so much from you.” Student evaluation.

“The fact that it felt more like a conversation than a lecture was incredible; I felt like we were all learning from each other and learning about each other.” Student evaluation

2009. McGavran Award for Excellence in Teaching, Gillings School of Global Public Health.

2008. Nominated for the UNC campus-wide award for graduate level teaching.

Short courses (recent)

September 2023. (1) Introduction to Global Health and (2) Global Health Reconsidered. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sante Publique (EHESP), Paris, France.

Fall 2022. Responding to disinformation in public health. A problem-based learning case study for the masters of public health at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

September 2022. (1) Introduction to Global Health and (2) Global Health Reconsidered. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sante Publique (EHESP), Paris, France.

March 2022. Introduction to global health. Al-Azhar University, Gaza.

Fall 2021. Creating a European public health code of ethics. A problem-based learning case study for the masters of public health at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

June 2021. Erasmus Mundus visiting faculty member. Europubhealth+ summer program, Rennes, France.

October 2020. Global Health Ethics. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sante Publique (EHESP), Paris, France.

February 2019. How to Teach Public Health Ethics. A one week course for faculty of the University of Public Health in Yangon, Myanmar.

Courses at UNC (recent)

Data in public health (2019-2020)

Perspectives in Epidemiology (2015-2019)

Global Health Ethics, an online course developed for the UNC certificate in global health (2009)

Fundamentals of Epidemiology (2006-2010)

Social Epidemiology: Concepts and Measures (2002-2013)


 
 

Dr. Thomas speaking in Beijing on digital data ethics at the 2019 China/Yale Forum.

 

As thanks for his teaching, students at Maastricht University presented Dr. Thomas with this hoodie. (Anonymous Lemur was a name assigned to him by Google Docs when he and the students were co-editing a document.)