Ethical Considerations When Vulnerable Populations are Subjects in Pragmatic Trials

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Emily A. Largent, JD, PhD, RN
Emanuel & Robert Hart Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

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Using qualitative research to study social justice (online)

This one-day course will be offered via Zoom only. There will be a 1 hour lunch and (2) 10 minute breaks (1 in morning and 1 in afternoon). Attendance is required as it will not be recorded.

Course Summary:

This course will address how researchers can use qualitative research to draw attention to underlying mechanisms that define social problems. Once uncovered, deeper understanding of these mechanisms can guide large-scale surveys, direct responses to requests for proposals by private foundations and government agencies, inform policy briefs, and even influence new legislation. In this regard, it is important for qualitative researchers to think beyond simply highlighting problems in order to also develop skills that leverage our work in ways that more directly impact people’s everyday lives. We will discuss qualitative processes to better position course participants in their efforts to design and collect data specifically aimed at contributing directly to social justice. Timely issues, including racial disparities in policing, will be used as examples of how decision-making across the methodological life of a qualitative project can be leveraged to address social problems.

Instructor: Rashawn Ray, PhD

Rashawn Ray, PhD, is a Rubenstein Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Lab for Applied Social Science Research (LASSR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. Ray is also one of the co-editors of Contexts Magazine: Sociology for the Public. Formerly, Ray was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in racial and social inequality with a particular focus on police-civilian relations and men’s treatment of women. His work also speaks to ways that inequality may be attenuated through social policy and racial uplift activism. Currently, Ray is working on a series of research projects creating innovative virtual reality experiments that focus on policing and other social outcomes.

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Nutrition and Cognitive Development: The Influence of Nutrient Synergy

Please join the UNC Network of Research Professionals and Carol Cheatham, PhD, from the Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) and the UNC Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, for a seminar on the influence of nutrition on cognitive development.

- Describe the stages of early brain development

- Articulate the importance of cognition to the individual

- Detail the specific effects of DHA, choline, and lutein in the brain

- Develop an understanding of how nutrients work together synergistically

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SAS Q&A session (in-person)

This 1 hour question and answer session will be offered in-person. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

Course Summary:

Have questions about SAS and want answers? Need to use SAS and not sure where to start? Just need a refresher? Bring whatever questions or queries to this one hour Q & A session. Chris Wiesen, PhD, will go over anything SAS-related that you might be wondering about or have ever wanted to ask.

Instructor: Chris Wiesen, PhD

Chris Wiesen, PhD, is a Senior Statistical Research Consultant at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). He offers consulting services to graduate students and faculty in the UNC system. He is an expert in methods widely used in social and health sciences. His project experience has focused on selecting, developing and implementing optimal analysis methods for academic and non-academic research among a variety of fields as diverse as psychology, sociology, medicine, public health, linguistics, education and geography.

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Collaborative Pragmatic Trials in Action: EVOLVE-MI

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Mikhail Kosiborod, MD
Vice President of Research
Saint Luke’s Health System
Professor of Medicine
University of Missouri-Kansas City

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The theme of the next Carolina Data Science Now seminar is Advancing Education, Training, & Care.

The event will feature three lightning talks by professors and researchers in UNC-Chapel Hill’s academic community, centered around how data science is used to improve the experiences of students, trainees, and patients. These talks will be followed by a guided panel, an opportunity for questions and answers with the speakers, and a discussion with the data science community at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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The PREPARE II Trial: Embedding a Pragmatic Trial Into Clinical Care During an Emergency Procedure

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Derek W. Russell, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Co-Director, Program in Medical ICU Research
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
Assistant Medical Director, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center MICU
University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine

Matthew W. Semler, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics
Medical Director, Center for Learning Healthcare, Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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Introduction to focus groups (online)

This course will be offered over two days (1/30 and 2/1 from 10am – 2pm US Eastern) via Zoom only. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

Course Summary:

Focus groups are commonly used to capture rich information about attitudes and beliefs. This class will prepare prospective students to organize and moderate focus groups. Students will learn the most appropriate uses of focus groups, how to segment and recruit audiences, how to develop a moderator’s guide, and how to moderate focus groups. The class will be supplemented with real-life examples and hands-on exercises.

Instructor: Peyton Williams, MPH

Peyton Williams, MPH, is a research associate at RTI International in the Center for Communication Science. He has over 15 years’ experience as a focus group moderator, and is involved with all facets of qualitative data collection from moderator guide and screener generation, to conducting groups, and analyzing and reporting on findings. He has conducted focus groups with an array of audiences, such as physicians, youth, and vulnerable populations, and around a variety of topics including HIV, opioids, and nutrition. Clients he has worked for include the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and state health departments.

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