Join colleagues from NC TraCS and CTSAs across the country for the Translational Impact Summit, a two-day virtual event hosted by the CTSA Translational Impact Working Group.

Guided by the theme Driving Translational Science Toward Measurable Impact, this summit convenes leaders, researchers, and partners across the CTSA consortium to advance our knowledge and shared capacity for translational impact.

Through dynamic sessions, attendees will explore innovative frameworks and cross-CTSA strategies for assessing and communicating impact, while gaining practical tools to embed measurable outcomes in program planning. Designed to foster collaboration and best practices, the summit offers interactive forums, cross-sector insights, and networking opportunities. The summit will showcase examples of translating science into policy and population health and equip participants with actionable strategies for planning, implementing, and disseminating impact-driven research.

Whether your expertise lies in evaluation, informatics, community engagement, communications, administration, or clinical research, this is your opportunity to shape the future of translational impact assessment and knowledge translation within the CTSA program.

For more information about this summit, please visit ccos-cc.ctsa.io.

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Join colleagues from NC TraCS and CTSAs across the country for the Translational Impact Summit, a two-day virtual event hosted by the CTSA Translational Impact Working Group.

Guided by the theme Driving Translational Science Toward Measurable Impact, this summit convenes leaders, researchers, and partners across the CTSA consortium to advance our knowledge and shared capacity for translational impact.

Through dynamic sessions, attendees will explore innovative frameworks and cross-CTSA strategies for assessing and communicating impact, while gaining practical tools to embed measurable outcomes in program planning. Designed to foster collaboration and best practices, the summit offers interactive forums, cross-sector insights, and networking opportunities. The summit will showcase examples of translating science into policy and population health and equip participants with actionable strategies for planning, implementing, and disseminating impact-driven research.

Whether your expertise lies in evaluation, informatics, community engagement, communications, administration, or clinical research, this is your opportunity to shape the future of translational impact assessment and knowledge translation within the CTSA program.

For more information about this summit, please visit ccos-cc.ctsa.io.

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This online training will provide an introduction to qualitative data analysis, focusing on content/thematic analysis. The session will cover the basics of qualitative data analysis and steps in the analysis process, including transcribing, memoing, codebook development and coding, exploring content areas or themes, and interpreting and communicating findings. Participants will have the opportunity to practice developing and applying codes. Please note: We will not be demonstrating how to use qualitative data analysis software during this session.

This event may be recorded. Materials such as slides or handouts will be shared with documented attendees only.

Presenters:
MaryBeth Grewe, MPH
Program Manager, Qualitative Research Service
Research Specialist, Patient and Community Engagement in Research (PaCER) Program

Simone Frank, MPH
Senior Project Manager, Patient and Community Engagement in Research (PaCER) Program
Research Specialist, Qualitative Research Service

For questions about this training, please contact MaryBeth Grewe at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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This half day Basic Life Support (BLS) Healthcare Provider Course is brought to you by the NC TraCS Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC) and Triangle CPR.

Basic Life Support for the Healthcare Provider is commonly required for all medical and dental professionals. This includes licensed and non-licensed study coordinators and research assistants. The AHA's BLS Course has been updated to include science and education from the 2025 Guidelines Update for CPR and ECC. It teaches both single-rescuer and team Basic Life Support skills for application in both prehospital and in-facility environments, with a focus on high-quality CPR, the various chains of survival and team dynamics.

In this instructor-led course, students will participate in simulated clinical scenarios and learning stations. Students work with an American Heart Association (AHA) BLS Instructor to complete BLS skills practice and skills testing; and complete a written exam. To successfully complete the course and receive a certification card (valid for two years), you must attend the full session, successfully complete the skills practice, and pass the exam. Note - this course is appropriate for students who require initial training as well as recertification.

Cost: $65.00
Payment method accepted: UNC account funds (full chartfield string is required at registration)
Location: NC TraCS Institute (Brinkhous-Bullitt Building, 160 N. Medical Drive, 2nd Floor, Conference Room 219, Chapel Hill, NC)
Intended Audience: UNC-Chapel Hill research employees whose responsibilities include or will include direct patient care

You will need a BLS Providers manual available for use BEFORE and DURING the course. The textbook serves as your admission ticket to the class. No textbook, no admittance. Additional details for the required textbook are available on the Event Registration page.

Late arrival and No-show Policy: Due to the condensed nature of the class we cannot make up missed material resulting from arriving late for class. Therefore, once the class begins there will be a strict no-admittance policy.

Certification Cards: All American Heart Association certifications are now electronic cards, each of the e-cards will be sent via email to each student's email address.

Please contact Janette Goins at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you have questions regarding this training. If for some reason you cannot attend the class, please notify Janette at least three (3) business days before the training.

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The UNC School of Nursing and the Implementation Science Methods Unit at NC TraCS are hosting Exploring Implementation Science at UNC: A Symposium to foster learning, collaboration, and networking amongst implementation practitioners, researchers, and students at UNC-Chapel Hill.

The symposium begins with an optional Introduction to Implementation Science session followed by faculty presentations from Kea Turner, Vivian Go, Rachel Hirschey, and Chris Shea.

Presentations include:

• Introduction to Implementation Science (optional session)
• If Not Alarms, Then What?: Substitution as a Strategy for Hospital Fall Prevention
• Systems Navigation and Psychosocial Counseling (SNaP): An Implementation Science Trial
• Scaling What Works: Accelerating the Implementation, Reach, and Sustainability of Evidence-based Cancer Prevention
• Workflows and Information Flows: (Ongoing) Development of the 'Integration of Telehealth and In-Person Services' (ITIPS) Survey

Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Time: 2 ‑ 5:15 p.m. ET
Location: Reeves Auditorium, NC Botanical Garden, 100 Old Mason Farm Road Chapel Hill, NC

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NOTE: Registration is restricted to those affiliated with UNC-Chapel Hill and requires an ONYEN.

Interested in exploring medical students' contributions to quality improvement (QI) at UNC? Attend the virtual Clinician Leadership in Quality and Safety (CLQS) Symposium to learn more!

Hear students from the School of Medicine's quality improvement Scholarly Concentration program share how they're advancing clinical excellence while developing real-world QI skills.

The event will be held via Zoom and is hosted by the Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement (IHQI) and the UNC School of Medicine.

Gillings AI and Public Health Showcase

UNC Gillings Center for Artificial Intelligence and Public Health (CAIPH) invites the full Gillings community, UNC campus, and general public to the Gillings AI and Public Health Showcase. The showcase will highlight the transformative power of AI in public health research and practice at Gillings and beyond. The Dean of the Gillings School of Global Public Health and the UNC Vice Chancellor for Research will open the event, followed by a video welcome from Cisco Systems CEO Chuck Robbins and an invited keynote address from Amir Rubin, CEO & Founding Partner, Healthier Capital. Four Gillings faculty will showcase their AI research. A networking reception will follow.

The Showcase will be held in the BCBS Auditorium of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

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Gillings AI and Public Health Datathon: by application or invitation only

The Gillings AI and Public Health Datathon is a two-day, focused, mentored opportunity for transdisciplinary teams to dig into large public health datasets using data science and AI. Each team will be anchored by a public health research expert and a senior data scientist to provide domain and technical leadership. We welcome participants at all levels—from students to seasoned professionals—in both public health and data science. This event offers novices the opportunity to gain hands-on experience and provides experts with the chance to explore fresh perspectives and form new partnerships. The datathon will be fully supported with large public health datasets, generous computational resources, and mentors. Teams will utilize these resources to address a public health question using AI and present their findings at the conclusion of the datathon. We expect that most teams will generate results that could be used in an abstract, preliminary data for a grant proposal, or could be further developed into a full manuscript.

The datathon is open to all at UNC and beyond. Because the event is on-campus and in-person, we expect the greatest number of participants to be UNC faculty, staff, researchers, postdocs, grad and professional students, and advanced undergrads. But others — alums, industry, community members, etc. — are all welcome to apply!

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Gillings AI and Public Health Datathon: by application or invitation only

The Gillings AI and Public Health Datathon is a two-day, focused, mentored opportunity for transdisciplinary teams to dig into large public health datasets using data science and AI. Each team will be anchored by a public health research expert and a senior data scientist to provide domain and technical leadership. We welcome participants at all levels—from students to seasoned professionals—in both public health and data science. This event offers novices the opportunity to gain hands-on experience and provides experts with the chance to explore fresh perspectives and form new partnerships. The datathon will be fully supported with large public health datasets, generous computational resources, and mentors. Teams will utilize these resources to address a public health question using AI and present their findings at the conclusion of the datathon. We expect that most teams will generate results that could be used in an abstract, preliminary data for a grant proposal, or could be further developed into a full manuscript.

The datathon is open to all at UNC and beyond. Because the event is on-campus and in-person, we expect the greatest number of participants to be UNC faculty, staff, researchers, postdocs, grad and professional students, and advanced undergrads. But others — alums, industry, community members, etc. — are all welcome to apply!

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Clinical AI and Clinical Informatics in the Apollo Hospitals Network, India

Sujoy Kar, MD, is the Chief Medical Information Officer & Vice President, Apollo Hospitals Group. The Apollo Hospitals Group is India’s largest Health Care Network with over 70 hospitals. Kar is a distinguished Clinical AI leader with over two decades of experience in healthcare quality, digital transformation, and large-scale deployment of Clinical and Generative AI. He currently leads the design, development, certification, and global deployment of AI-driven clinical and operational solutions across Apollo Hospitals and partner ecosystems.

Event Location:322 Macnider Hall, UNC School of Medicine

In this session, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and seek feedback on their qualitative analyses from facilitators and other attendees. This session serves as a workshop in which participants get a chance to discuss and review qualitative analysis techniques while also learning from others.

Please note: We will not be presenting information about qualitative analysis in this session; instead, we will ask participants to share where they are in their analysis process, ask questions about their analyses, and collectively discuss strategies for moving our analyses forward. This event will not be recorded.

Facilitators:
MaryBeth Grewe, MPH
Program Manager, Qualitative Research Service
Research Specialist, Patient and Community Engagement in Research (PaCER) Program

Simone Frank, MPH
Senior Project Manager, Patient and Community Engagement in Research (PaCER) Program
Research Specialist, Qualitative Research Service

Sharita Thomas, MPP
Research Specialist, Qualitative Research Service

For questions about this workshop, please contact MaryBeth Grewe at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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Tools, Technology and Teamwork: How NCDRC Cores Support Diabetes Research

Join the North Carolina Diabetes Research Center (NCDRC) for a virtual overview of their core offerings.

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Join us for a laptop-optional workshop to learn more about statistical power, the relationship of statistical power to study design, and how to design a simulation study to assess power. Code samples will be provided in both R and Python.

In this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Define statistical power as a concept
• Understand how power calculations relate to study design
• Learn to design a simulation study to assess power

Workshop outline:

1. Welcome and introduction
    a. Define statistical power in the context of null hypothesis significance testing

2. Overview of power calculations
    a. Why calculate power?
    b. What impacts power?
    c. Why is power meaningful?

3. Introduction to simulation studies for power
    a. Precision
    b. Two-group comparison
    c. Three-group comparison
    d. Correlation

4. Conclusions/next steps
    a. Detecting and avoiding common mistakes

Prerequisites
You should be able to do these things in either R or Python: 

• Write, save, and execute code
• Make simple visualizations

Statistical challenges in Long COVID research: Ongoing lessons from the RECOVER observational cohort

Long COVID, also known as postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), is a chronic condition characterized by long-term symptoms that persist for months or even years after initial SARS-CoV-2 infection. Over 200 symptoms have been identified as being associated with Long COVID, affecting nearly every body system. Long COVID is known to manifest differently across individuals, wax and wane over time, and range from mild to incapacitating, with profound effects on quality of life. While recognition of Long COVID is growing among adults, it is still woefully understudied in children.

The rapid materialization of large-scale observational data, including the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) meta-cohort, has generated enormous opportunity for novel discovery that could lead to effective prevention strategies and improved outcomes for patients living with Long COVID. The statistical challenges inherent in effectively and appropriately leveraging these novel data resources are numerous. In this talk, the lead biostatistician of the Data Resource Core for RECOVER will present their work developing a working definition for a new chronic disease, and highlight the many statistical challenges in the study of Long COVID.

Speaker:
Tony Thaweethai, PhD
Associate Director of Collaborative Research and Educational Initiatives,
Massachusetts General Hospital Biostatistics
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School

This event is being cross-promoted by the NC BERD Consortium, a collaboration of the CTSA-funded BERD cores at UNC-Chapel Hill, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Duke University School of Medicine.

Ethics Regarding Coercion and Undue Influence in Human Subjects Research

Join the UNC Network for Research Professionals (NRP) for a hybrid education session on coercion and undue influence during the consent process in human subjects research.

1. Coercion and undue influence during the consent process
2. Updates to the Investigator Guidance (IG 1101)
3. Updates to consent forms
4. Case studies on special populations
5. Elements of a well‑crafted consent process

In-person location: Brinkhous-Bullitt room 226

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Introduction to Working in the SHIRE

Join the TraCS Data Science Lab for an introduction to local computing in the Secure Health Informatics Research Environment (SHIRE). There are two primary ways to work with data and perform an analysis in the SHIRE: directly on your personal virtual machine workspace or in Databricks. In this seminar, we'll focus on the former approach of working with your data using the Linux or Windows virtual machine and the tools available on it. We'll start with the basics of deploying a new VM and extend into using basic tools, finally progressing to using more advanced techniques for working with large data fully on your VM.

Speaker:
Peter Leese, MSPH
Program Director & Lead Scientist
TraCS Data Science Lab

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Seminars in the NC TraCS Data Science Lab Seminar Series cover a range of topics related to health care data science, clinical data, data engineering, and working in these areas at UNC-Chapel Hill. These hybrid seminars are usually held monthly on the third Tuesday of each month from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the NC TraCS suite on the 2nd floor of Brinkhous-Bullitt or via Zoom.

Accelerate your ideas through customer discovery and market opportunity validation!

KickStart Venture Services is recruiting community startups as well as faculty, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students with innovations and an interest in commercialization to participate in their virtual NSF I-Corps program. They will teach you the principles of customer discovery to help you better understand the market potential of your innovation!

The National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps Program (I-Corps) was launched in 2011 and has quickly become one of the world’s largest and most successful technology commercialization accelerators. The I-Corps regional program helps researchers and aspiring innovators determine if they are solving a real-world problem with true market opportunity. NSF’s I-Corps Program not only provides funding, mentoring, and networking opportunities to help commercialize promising technologies, it is offered at NO COST to the community.

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For more information about the I-Corps Program, visit KickStart Venture Services.

Curious How We Got Funded? Real World Strategies for Non-Federal Grants

Please join the Department of Health Sciences Office of Research & Scholarship for their March research forum to hear from three faculty members in a facilitated conversation about how they successfully competed for non-federal research grants.

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

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 New NIH Public Access Policy: What You Need to Know

The 2024 NIH Public Access Policy includes several significant changes from the previous policy, and applies to all NIH-funded manuscripts accepted for publication on or after July 1, 2025. Learn more about what has changed, how to comply, and what to expect going forward.

This program is offered via Zoom by the Health Sciences Library and the Scholarly Communications Office, and led by Collin Drummond and Katherine Howell.

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This 4-hour course will be held online only. Attendance is required as it will not be recorded.

Cognitive interviewing in survey research is a tool that allows researchers to improve survey questions and questionnaires by better understanding how respondents understand and respond to the questions they are being asked. Data gathered through cognitive interviews help researchers identify and remedy issues with their questionnaires.

This short course provides participants with fundamentals on where cognitive interviews fit in the survey process and on how to design, conduct, and analyze cognitive interviews. Participants will have the opportunity to practice specific cognitive interviewing techniques, including think-alouds, probing, and observation. Participants will also learn about revising survey questions based on interpreting cognitive interview results and about the research on which cognitive interview practices are based.

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Overview of 2026 NIH Requirements: Biosketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support

This session provides an overview of some of the upcoming changes to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant application requirements, including new Common Forms that will be required for due dates on or after January 25, 2026.

In particular, this presentation will focus on the Biosketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support forms, which will need to be completed using the SciENcv tool. It will include demonstrations of SciENcv as well as ORCID iD creation and linking steps. The presentation aims to prepare researchers for the new NIH requirements by providing detailed instructions and resources to ensure compliance.

This program is offered via Zoom by the Health Sciences Library and led by Katherine Howell, MSLIS.

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10th Annual UNC Oliver Smithies Nobel Symposium: featuring Jennifer Doudna, PhD

The 10th Annual UNC Oliver Smithies Nobel Symposium is excited to feature Jennifer Doudna, PhD, the 2020 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, as this year's distinguished speaker. Doudna is renowned for her groundbreaking work in characterizing and developing the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system, a revolutionary technology transforming fields ranging from agriculture to medicine. She is currently a Distinguished HHMI Investigator at UC Berkeley, a director at the Innovative Genomics Institute, and a co-founder of Mammoth Biosciences, which develops CRISPR-based diagnostics and therapeutics.

The Oliver Smithies Nobel Laureate Symposium is an annual event which invites prominent Nobel Laureates to share their stories, groundbreaking work, and highlight the experiences and driving forces that led to their success. This year, Doudna will present her talk titled CRISPR-powered gene editing for human and planet health.

This is a unique opportunity to hear from one of the leading scientists of our time and learn about cutting-edge research that is shaping the future of healthcare and beyond. Join us for an inspiring lecture with Jennifer Doudna, PhD, as she shares her remarkable journey to the Nobel Prize! There will be a reception with light refreshments to follow.

Event Location: UNC Medical Biomolecular Research Building (MBRB), Room 2204

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