Engagement in Research 101

Wed. 22 Mar, 2023 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Engagement in Research 101: Introduction to Engaging Patient & Community Partners in Research

Are you interested in learning about patient and community engagement and how it can benefit your research? Excited by the idea of engaging patient, community, or other partners in your research, but unsure about where to start? Want to know more about how to engage partners at different points throughout your study?

Engaging with patient and community partners who are impacted by your research can be instrumental to the success of your study. This online training will provide an overview of engagement in research, highlighting that engagement is not "all or nothing" or "one-size-fits-all", but instead encompasses a wide variety of low touch to high touch approaches that could be right for your study.

The session will cover common myths/misconceptions about engagement in research, benefits of and key considerations for engaging patient and community partners in research, and initial steps/existing resources you can leverage to begin engaging partners in your research.

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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 1 will 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.

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.

Odum Institute: Visual Inquiry in Qualitative Research

Wed. 22 Mar, 2023 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Visual imagery has an expanding role in social science research methods. Traditionally, visual data in social sciences has related to light capture, lens-based cameras with the researcher consciously or unconsciously framing the recorded image. These images were assumed to be true. More recently, social scientists, using participatory method to put cameras in the hands of their research participants to escape the researcher’s bracketing subjectivity. Recently, visual inquiry has expanded beyond the camera and embraced multiple forms of visual making that include image creation and manipulation. With these changes, there is a greater recognition that an image is not a passive record of an external reality. Instead, the researcher and research participants actively make images in the process of inquiry. Furthermore, new materialisms theory expands a conception of a research participant. The materials that comprise a visual image have their own agency and directly affect how an audience interprets the image. The materiality of an image can render meaning that is different from the creator’s intention.

Keeping in mind the needs of a researcher who has little or no formal training in the visual art, but who is nevertheless interested in applying the visual imagery that today’s ubiquitous digital technology readily affords, this course will offer criteria for the use of visual methods in qualitative inquiry that will help researchers sharpen their analytical skills. Analyzing images requires an understanding of tacit knowledge: sensory, pre-linguistic embodied empirical evidence.

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DHS Research Forum: Current Research in Traumatic Brain Injury

Wed. 22 Mar, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Current Research in Traumatic Brain Injury

Please join the Department of Health Sciences Interprofessional Education & Practice and Office of Research & Scholarship for a research forum featuring current research in traumatic brain injury.

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

Presenters:

Karen McCulloch, PT, PhD, MS, FAPTA, FACRM
Division of Physical Therapy
Department of Health Sciences
American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Updated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) Definition: An Interdisciplinary Delphi Process to Improve mTBI Diagnosis

Lindsey Byom, PhD, CCC-SLP
Division of Speech & Hearing Sciences
Department of Health Sciences
A Roadmap to Person-Centered Cognitive-Communication Rehabilitation after TBI

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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Sheps Center: Turning Digital Fumes into a Breath of Fresh Air

Wed. 22 Mar, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Gordon H. DeFriese Distinguished Lecture on Health Services Research and Health Policy: Turning Digital Fumes into a Breath of Fresh Air

The Sheps Center is excited to once again host the Gordon H. DeFriese Distinguished Lecture on Health Services Research and Health Policy, which has been a pinnacle event for the Center over the years. This lecture is a wonderful opportunity to hear from leading health services researchers and connect with colleagues across campus. This free event is open to all faculty, staff, students, and the public.

The hybrid lecture will take place in person in the Reeves Auditorium at the NC Botanical Garden AND via Zoom. The presentation will also be recorded for those who cannot attend live.

Speaker: Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD

Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research (CLIIR). Adler-Milstein is a leading researcher in health IT policy, with a specific focus on electronic health records and interoperability. She has examined policies and organizational strategies that enable effective use of electronic health records and promote interoperability. She is also an expert in EHR audit log data and its application to studying clinician behavior. Her research – used by researchers, health systems, and policymakers – identifies obstacles to progress and ways to overcome them.

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Precision Nutrition: Connections Between Food, Environment, and Health

Wed. 22 Mar, 2023 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Join the UNC Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) for Precision Nutrition: Connections Between Food, Environment, & Health, a free virtual mini-symposium.

Precision nutrition is an emerging personalized approach to nutrition that takes into account an individual's unique dietary needs, lifestyle factors, and genetic makeup. This approach recognizes the intricate relationship between diet, environment, and health, acknowledging that what we eat and how we live can significantly impact our wellbeing.

Presentations

Blending Precision Nutrition and Precision Public Health Approaches: "Neighborhood-omics"
Alice Ammerman, DrPH
Mildred Kaufman Distinguished Professor, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health
Director, Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, School of Medicine

Metabolic Individuality and Nutrition for Precision Health
Susan Sumner, PhD
Professor, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health

How to Use Precision Nutrition in Current Clinical Practice
Martin Kohlmeier, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health

For more information, visit www.med.unc.edu.

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