Institute for Healthcare Improvement Online Forum

Get the IHI Forum experience from the comfort of your home or office! The Online Forum, running from December 13–15, 2022, offers a jam-packed virtual experience:

-Live and on-demand sessions with improvement experts from around the globe
-Livestream the in-person IHI Forum keynote speakers as they are presenting and on-demand
-Customize your agenda: No seating limits and post-session on-demand gives attendees access to all of their desired sessions, even if they're happening at the same time!
-Pre-conference workshops, including a CPPS review course
-Included access to the Scientific Symposium on December 15, the home of the best work in the science of health care improvement
-Access to 450+ posters, prepared by rising stars in the world of improvement
-And much more!

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Strengthening Engagement in Research: Building and Maintaining Relationships with Patient & Community Partners

Meaningful partnerships with patients, community members, or other collaborators involved in your research are invaluable. Projects are set up for success when care is intentionally given to developing and strengthening partnerships over time.

This online training will describe best practices for building mutually beneficial partnerships. The session will also cover common challenges that researchers and patient, community, and other partners experience when working together, along with suggested solutions.

Participation in our Engagement in Research 101 or Engagement in Research Nuts and Bolts trainings are not required to attend this session; however, some knowledge of engagement, whether from prior training(s) or personal experience, may foster deeper understanding of the material in this session.

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The Engaging Patient, Community, and Other Partners in Your Research: Online Training Series is a 3-part online training series about engaging patient, community, and other partners in research. You may register for the entire series OR any single training session.

Part 1will focus on the basics of research engagement, providing an overview of patient and community engagement and its benefits, debunking common myths and misconceptions, and providing considerations and next steps for incorporating engagement approaches into your research.

Part 2 will cover specific engagement methods, including consultative community feedback sessions, advisory boards, and working with patient and community partners as members of a research team and/or Co-Principal Investigators.

Part 3 will focus on the nuances of building and maintaining partnerships, outlining best practices for developing and strengthening mutually beneficial partnerships and discussing common partnership challenges and solutions.

This training series was developed collaboratively with patient, community, and researcher partners and is co-sponsored by the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and NC TraCS Institute.

Applied Implementation Science: Improving Practice Monday Morning and Outcomes in the Future

Please join the Department of Health Sciences Office of Research & Scholarship for a research forum featuring speakers on applied implementation science. Karen Erickson, PhD, and Claire Greer, PhD, will describe the iterative, applied approach to implementation science employed by the Center for Literacy & Disability Studies. This approach emphasizes building open-source implementation models that help interprofessional teams improve the communication, language, and literacy outcomes of school-aged children with complex disabilities.

The hybrid forum will take place in person (MacNider 321, LUNCH provided) and via Zoom. Please register to attend.

Presenters:

Karen Erickson, PhD
Center for Literacy & Disability Studies
Department of Health Sciences 

Claire Greer, PhD
Center for Literacy & Disability Studies
Department of Health Sciences 

Questions? Contact the Department of Health Sciences Office of Research & Scholarship at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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The Color of Care Debrief & Discussion

The Color of Care chronicles how people of color suffer from systemically substandard healthcare. COVID-19 exposed what they have long understood and lived: they do not receive the same level of care. Produced by Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions and directed by Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director Yance Ford.

You can watch The Color of Care between December 5-December 12 in the Community Campus Partnership for Health Screening Room. Please note the access code is case sensitive, please enter it exactly as shown.

Screening Room

Access code for screening room: ccph

Please register to participate in the post-screening debrief and discussion via Zoom. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

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