Different than Research For Me, ResearchMatch is a national platform to recruit for your study. Join a live training to learn how to add a study to ResearchMatch, search for volunteers, send a contact message, and manage your enrollment continuum. The ResearchMatch team have extended their training an additional 30 minutes for “office hours.” Anyone is welcome to welcome to join this national call to ask questions about their specific study on ResearchMatch. National office hours are held on the second Thursday of every month at 2 p.m. ET right after the monthly Researcher Training.

Learn more about ResearchMatch overall at researchmatch.org. For local information and approval process of ResearchMatch at UNC, please visit our Resource Center (requires login to SharePoint) or submit a ticket to the NC TraCS Recruitment & Retention Program.

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Single-Cell RNA sequencing reveals Chlamydia trachomatis-driven T cell activation and differentiation in cervical mucosal immunity

Join the Children's Research Institute for a hybrid seminar with Xiaojing Zheng, PhD, a professor of pediatric infectious diseases in the UNC School of Medicine and an adjunct associate professor of biostatistics in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Participate in the seminar either in person at 3116 Mary Ellen Jones Building (with lunch provided) or via Zoom.

Zoom information - Meeting ID: 985 6644 6544 | Password: 097476

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Bridging the Digital Divide: An Introduction to the Accessibility Mindset

This hybrid NRP Education session will be presented by Lane Fields, MA, CPACC, Digital Accessibility Consultant, from the UNC Digital Accessibility Office. Lane will provide resources and instruction on incorporating DAO principles into your research presentations, participant documents and materials, and other uses in your everyday practice.

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Design for Diversity

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Christopher J Lindsell, PhD
Professor and co-Chief, Biostatistics, Duke University
Director, Data Science and Biostatistics, DCRI
Director, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, CTSI
Editor in Chief, Journal of Clinical and Translational Science

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NC TraCS Data Science Lab Seminar Series: OMOP Vocabularies and Concept Sets

This seminar builds on the introduction to OMOP @ UNC seminar previously held in June 2024 and will cover OMOP Vocabularies and Concept Sets.

Seminars in the NC TraCS Data Science Lab Seminar Series will 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 will be held 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.

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This course is designed to develop quantitative research skills with practical applications in social science contexts. It will focus on key topics such as the analysis of ordinary least squares (OLS), methods for estimating bivariate and multivariate regression models, assessing the overall goodness of model fit, and hypothesis and diagnostic tests. Participants will also receive insights into research design, data management, statistical analysis, and interpreting research outcomes. The course adopts a "learning by doing" approach, delving into major themes in regression analysis through detailed examples. These examples illustrate the practical application of the regression concepts using the statistical program R.

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The HEALing Communities Study – 10 Million People, 67 Communities: A Community-Based Cluster Randomized Trial to Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MA, MPH
John Noble Professor in General Internal Medicine & Professor of Public Health
Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and School of Public Health
Boston Medical Center

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This course is the first in a two-part scale development course series that introduces students to the systematic process of developing multi-item scale measures and survey instruments. Examples include measures of various social and psychological variables that might be assessed in health, medicine, journalism, or other related research areas. After a brief theoretical introduction to topics such as defining a construct and types of validity, we will turn to applied issues such as what is the optimal scale development process and how (and when) can you deviate from that process. We will also address practical issues around questionnaire design such as how to construct a “good” survey instrument that has a natural flow, minimizes participant burden, has appropriate response options and other common concerns in scale development and design. We will focus on real-life examples to demonstrate the scale development process. Although we will briefly discuss the kinds of quantitative techniques that are commonly used in the scale development process, this course will not cover the application of these methods. Quantitative methods for scale development will be covered in Part 2 of this course series.

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The OVCR leadership team invites the research community to the Spring 2025 edition of OVCR Office Hours, an open forum on research operations and administration that takes place once a semester.

What to Expect for the January Session:
- The Research Roadmap, our strategic plan for continued and growing excellence
- The conflict of interest program
- The federal landscape under the new administration
- The Translational Research Building

Speakers: Vice Chancellor Penny Gordon-Larsen, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor Andy Johns, and Director of the Office of Federal Affairs Kelly Dockham

There will be a dedicated Q&A session for participants to ask questions, and questions should be submitted in advance to ensure all are covered. You can submit questions during registration or by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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Jonathan A. Smith leads the interpretative phenomenological analysis research group (IPARG) and teaches qualitative methods at all levels. Jonathan developed IPA as a specific qualitative methodology to provide detailed examination of personal lived experience. He has applied it to address a wide range of research questions in health, for example in pain, clinical genetics, therapeutic interventions. IPA is now one of the best known qualitative methods and has been used by many researchers concerned with tackling issues involving personal lived experience. In the class, Jonathan will introduce IPA and describe its theoretical origins. He will give an example of IPA in practice from his own work and then take attendees through the steps in conducting an IPA research project: design, data collection, analysis, writing up. The class will include some practical exercises where possible.

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Advancing Rural Back Pain Outcomes Using Rehabilitation Telehealth (ARBOR Telehealth): Early Progress and Lessons Learned

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Richard L. Skolasky, ScD
Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Kevin H. McLaughlin, DPT
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

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