This course will take place over three mornings (10/2/23, 10/4/23, and 10/6/23), 2.5 hours per morning, and will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

This course introduces participants to constructivist grounded theory (CGT). Grounded theory (GT) methods consist of flexible guidelines to fit particular research problems, not to apply mechanically. With these guidelines, you expedite and systematize data collection and analysis. GT methods can assist researchers in making their work more analytic, precise, and compelling.

In this course, following an exploration of the history and development of GT, we examine GT basic guidelines and major strategies, including initial line-by-line and focused coding, the use of gerunds, memoing, diagramming, theoretical sampling, and categorising. Throughout the sessions, there is an emphasis on CGT's epistemological foundation and resultant adaptations to the research process, including regarding the literature review, researcher positionality/ies and reflexivity, and participant involvement.

The course will include a number of hands-on exercises to exemplify, and give participants an opportunity to practice, the strategies being discussed. For the coding exercise, you may bring and use some of your own qualitative data, or if you do not have data yet, some will be supplied. Clear guidelines and support are provided to course participants with regard to all aspects of CGT.

The sessions will utilise CGT readings and resources from Kathy Charmaz, Robert Thornberg, Adele Clarke, and the presenter, Elaine Keane, and will draw on the extensive scholarship of Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss. A pack of materials will be shared with participants in advance of the course. This course will be of interest to those doing full CGT studies but also to those who may be interested in learning about and potentially using some of the powerful GT strategies (such as coding) in studies with a different overall methodological approach.

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In this session, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and seek feedback on their qualitative analysis 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.

To attend, participants must be working on a qualitative data analysis project and can seek feedback on any step in the process (e.g., coding, creating matrices/diagrams/other products, developing categories or themes, summarizing data). Participants must have attended an Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis training offered by NC TraCS (either the session offered on September 26, 2023 or a previously offered session).

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.

Facilitators:
MaryBeth Grewe, MPH, Engagement and Qualitative Research Specialist
Simone Frank, MPH, Community Engagement and Outreach Specialist
Courtney Canter, MA, Qualitative Research Specialist

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This course will take place over three mornings (10/2/23, 10/4/23, and 10/6/23), 2.5 hours per morning, and will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

This course introduces participants to constructivist grounded theory (CGT). Grounded theory (GT) methods consist of flexible guidelines to fit particular research problems, not to apply mechanically. With these guidelines, you expedite and systematize data collection and analysis. GT methods can assist researchers in making their work more analytic, precise, and compelling.

In this course, following an exploration of the history and development of GT, we examine GT basic guidelines and major strategies, including initial line-by-line and focused coding, the use of gerunds, memoing, diagramming, theoretical sampling, and categorising. Throughout the sessions, there is an emphasis on CGT's epistemological foundation and resultant adaptations to the research process, including regarding the literature review, researcher positionality/ies and reflexivity, and participant involvement.

The course will include a number of hands-on exercises to exemplify, and give participants an opportunity to practice, the strategies being discussed. For the coding exercise, you may bring and use some of your own qualitative data, or if you do not have data yet, some will be supplied. Clear guidelines and support are provided to course participants with regard to all aspects of CGT.

The sessions will utilise CGT readings and resources from Kathy Charmaz, Robert Thornberg, Adele Clarke, and the presenter, Elaine Keane, and will draw on the extensive scholarship of Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss. A pack of materials will be shared with participants in advance of the course. This course will be of interest to those doing full CGT studies but also to those who may be interested in learning about and potentially using some of the powerful GT strategies (such as coding) in studies with a different overall methodological approach.

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NC BERD Seminar: Statistical Power: Understanding the inputs and how you come up with them

This session will cover approaches to estimate statistical power, sample size, and effect estimates to be considered in the study design phase.

Presenter: Walter Ambrosius, PhD
Professor, Biostatistics and Data Science, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

This event is hosted by Wake Forest and 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.

Join the UNC Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) for Cystic Fibrosis: Precision Treatment of a Rare Monogenic Disease, a free virtual mini-symposium.

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by two single-nucleotide changes to a single gene, the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). The CFTR gene contains the instructions for making a protein that carries water and salt across cell membranes. When the CFTR gene is not working correctly, mucus can accumulate in the lungs and digestive system.

Speakers will address research into developing new CF therapies, methods for determining which therapy will most benefit individual patients with CF, and how the EHR can be leveraged to streamline treatment for patients with CF.

Presentations

Developing small-molecule therapies to rescue rare CFTR variants
Rhianna Lee, PhD
Postdoctoral associate, Duke University, Cell Biology Department

Personalized medicine, the fight against antibiotic resistance, and precision dosing
Gauri Rao, PharmD
Associate Professor, USC Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Southern California Adjunct Associate Professor, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, UNC Chapel Hill

From Data to Dosing: Streamlining CF modulator choices
Michael Adams, MD
Clinical Instructor, Division of Genetics & Metabolism, Department of Pediatrics, UNC School of Medicine

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

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This course will be offered IN-PERSON only (10/5/23 from 9:30am – 4pm US Eastern) in Davis Library Room 219. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

Cognitive interviewing in survey research is a methodology researchers use to gain a better understanding of how respondents think when answering specific survey items. Data gathered using the cognitive interview approach help researchers identify and remedy issues with their questionnaires. This short course is designed to provide participants with fundamentals 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.

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AI Health Virtual Seminar: Introduction to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Health

The transformation in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is impacting clinical medicine with potential for benefit but also harm. In this one-hour virtual seminar, we'll introduce AI and ML, highlight capabilities of current methods for images, text, and other big data in clinical settings, and discuss considerations in how to use these powerful methods responsibly.

This session will be a high-level introduction accessible to people with no prior knowledge of artificial intelligence.

Speaker:
Matthew Engelhard, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Director of the Duke AI Health Data Science Fellowship Program

Host:
Shelley Rusincovitch, MMCi
Managing Director
Duke AI Health

This event is sponsored by Duke AI Health; the Duke University Departments of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Computer Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering; the Duke Center for Computational Thinking; Duke CTSI; CTSI CREDO; and the Pratt School of Engineering. It is being cross-promoted by the North Carolina BERD Consortium (Duke University School of Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest School of Medicine).

This course will take place over three mornings (10/2/23, 10/4/23, and 10/6/23), 2.5 hours per morning, and will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

This course introduces participants to constructivist grounded theory (CGT). Grounded theory (GT) methods consist of flexible guidelines to fit particular research problems, not to apply mechanically. With these guidelines, you expedite and systematize data collection and analysis. GT methods can assist researchers in making their work more analytic, precise, and compelling.

In this course, following an exploration of the history and development of GT, we examine GT basic guidelines and major strategies, including initial line-by-line and focused coding, the use of gerunds, memoing, diagramming, theoretical sampling, and categorising. Throughout the sessions, there is an emphasis on CGT's epistemological foundation and resultant adaptations to the research process, including regarding the literature review, researcher positionality/ies and reflexivity, and participant involvement.

The course will include a number of hands-on exercises to exemplify, and give participants an opportunity to practice, the strategies being discussed. For the coding exercise, you may bring and use some of your own qualitative data, or if you do not have data yet, some will be supplied. Clear guidelines and support are provided to course participants with regard to all aspects of CGT.

The sessions will utilise CGT readings and resources from Kathy Charmaz, Robert Thornberg, Adele Clarke, and the presenter, Elaine Keane, and will draw on the extensive scholarship of Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss. A pack of materials will be shared with participants in advance of the course. This course will be of interest to those doing full CGT studies but also to those who may be interested in learning about and potentially using some of the powerful GT strategies (such as coding) in studies with a different overall methodological approach.

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Evaluating quantitative research beyond statistical significance: Abelson's MAGIC criteria

The NC TraCS Biostatistics Seminar Series helps clinical and translational researchers collaborate more effectively with consulting biostatisticians by building deeper understanding of key statistical concepts and methods. Researchers then are better able to (1) evaluate relevance of the concept or method for research aim(s) definition and choice of study design; and (2) properly interpret the results of data analysis.

How should we evaluate the results from a quantitative study? A common, but unfortunate way is to examine the p-value. If it's not significant, the study wasn't good; if it's significant, then good; and if it's highly significant, then very good. In this seminar, Jeff Laux, PhD, will introduce Robert Abelson's MAGIC criteria for evaluating quantitative results.

Laux is a consulting biostatistician and research associate with the Biostatistics Service at NC TraCS Institute and an adjunct instructor with the Department of Biostatistics in the Gillings School of Global Public Health.

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Hybrid Studies Should Not Sacrifice Rigorous Methods

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Speaker: David M. Murray, PhD
NIH Associate Director for Prevention and Director, NIH Office of Disease Prevention

Moderator: Jonathan C. Moyer, PhD
Statistician, NIH Office of Disease Prevention

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This 5-hour course will be offered online only on October 9 and 11 from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day. Attendance is required – this course will not be recorded.

The course introduces students to Stata and data management. It is tailored for beginners and researchers who want to learn how to manage data more effectively. Each day, the class will demonstrate how to use the commands, followed by hands-on exercises using sample datasets.

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Office of Research Development HEALTH OF WOMEN NETWORKING Event for UNC Researchers

Date/Time: October 10 from 10:00-11:30am
Location: Brinkhous-Bullitt, 2nd Floor, Room 219

The Office of Research Development (ORD) invites you to join an in-person interdisciplinary networking event for UNC researchers who are focused on the HEALTH OF WOMEN across the life course. The purpose of the event is to bring together researchers at all levels working in women's health research for focused networking around current projects, future directions, and a funding landscape overview.

Researchers will share single-slide presentations and Research Development teams will share NIH funding and thematic forecasts, followed by sub-group topic-driven networking.

Researchers should use the template (download template (.pptx)) for their presentation and email it to Kelley Cardone at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 10/6/23. The slides will be posted on the ORD website after the event as a resource for researchers.

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Centering Anti-Racism and Cultural Wealth in Developmental Science: Ensuring Optimal Development and Human Dignity for Black Children

Join the Children's Research Institute and the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute for a hybrid seminar with Iheoma U. Iruka, PhD, Research Professor, Department of Public Policy and a Fellow at FPG Child Development Institute. 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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AAP-SPROUT Tele-inpatient ECHO: Virtual Supported Family Centered Rounds

The American Academy of Pediatrics is recruiting hospitalists, pediatricians, and other health professionals to be a part of the SPROUT (Supporting Pediatric Research on Outcomes and Utilization of Telehealth) Tele-inpatient ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes). This ECHO, in partnership with the SPROUT-CTSA Network, will serve as a forum for increasing knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy regarding effective strategies and best practices related to telehealth in the hospital setting.

Project ECHO® is an innovative hub and spoke program, designed to create knowledge networks by connecting health care providers with an expert team through a tele-mentoring program using brief lectures and case‐based presentations. This ECHO, in partnership with the SPROUT-CTSA Network, will serve as a forum for increasing knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy regarding effective strategies and best practices related to telehealth in the hospital setting.

The AAP-SPROUT Tele-inpatient ECHO will meet monthly September 2023 through February 2024 at at 12 PM ET on the following dates: September 13, October 11, November 15, December 13, January 10, and February 14. Participants are eligible to claim CME/MOC 2 credits.

October 11, 2023 topic: Virtual Supported Family Centered Rounds | Presenter: Jennifer Rosenthal MD, MAS, FAAP | Facilitator: Jordan Vaughn, MD, FAAP

Questions? Email Robinn Yu, Program Manager of ECHO Initiatives, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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This project was supported in part by NIH/ NCATS SPROUT-CTSA Collaborative Telehealth Network Grant Number U01TR002626. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

This 5-hour course will be offered online only on October 9 and 11 from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day. Attendance is required – this course will not be recorded.

The course introduces students to Stata and data management. It is tailored for beginners and researchers who want to learn how to manage data more effectively. Each day, the class will demonstrate how to use the commands, followed by hands-on exercises using sample datasets.

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TraCS is excited to announce Cycle 3 of our CTS Pilot Program is now open. We are holding two informational Q&A sessions to share the workings of the pilot program and provide an opportunity to answer questions.

Presenters:
David Peden, MD, MS, TraCS CTS Pilot Program Lead, Senior Associate Dean for Translational Research, School of Medicine
David Carroll, PhD, TraCS Director of Research Funding Development

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About the Program

NC TraCS is seeking proposals that focus on understanding a scientific or operational principle underlying a step of the translational research process with the goal of developing generalizable principles to accelerate translation.

The Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Pilot Program supports investigation focused on understanding the scientific and operational principles underlying each step of the translational process, so that advances can be applied to research on any target or disease.

Projects are intended to:

1. explore possible innovative new leads or new directions for established investigators;
2. stimulate investigators from other areas to lend their expertise in research in CTS; and
3. provide initial support to establish proof of concept.

Projects must be feasible within the proposed timeframe, have high methodological and scientific quality, and answer important scientific questions.

Applications due: Nov 14, 2023

Learn more at tracs.unc.edu/services/pilot-program/cts

The Risks of Facial Recognition Technology: Dismantling the First Amendment Defense

In a lawsuit challenging its surveillance activities, Clearview AI used the First Amendment as a defense. The facial recognition technology company argued that the creation and use of its surveillance product was First Amendment protected speech. Join Talya Whyte, third-year law student at New York University, as she presents a case study on the parties’ basic arguments, Clearview AI’s characterization of its activities as “speech,” and the implications of this argument. Attendees will understand how facial recognition technology works and the risks and harms inherent in its building and implementation, and gain the knowledge to make more informed legal, policy, and technical choices about the implementation of AI-based surveillance technology.

Talya Whyte is a third year law student at New York University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of new technology, society, public trust, and digital rights. She is a 2023 Google Legal Scholar, a Student Fellow at the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, and NYU Cyber Scholar. Whyte hopes for a thoughtful and humanitarian integration of technology into existing legal and societal frameworks.

Learn more at datascienceconsortium.org.

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TraCS is excited to announce Cycle 3 of our CTS Pilot Program is now open. We are holding two informational Q&A sessions to share the workings of the pilot program and provide an opportunity to answer questions.

Presenters:
David Peden, MD, MS, TraCS CTS Pilot Program Lead, Senior Associate Dean for Translational Research, School of Medicine
David Carroll, PhD, TraCS Director of Research Funding Development

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About the Program

NC TraCS is seeking proposals that focus on understanding a scientific or operational principle underlying a step of the translational research process with the goal of developing generalizable principles to accelerate translation.

The Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Pilot Program supports investigation focused on understanding the scientific and operational principles underlying each step of the translational process, so that advances can be applied to research on any target or disease.

Projects are intended to:

1. explore possible innovative new leads or new directions for established investigators;
2. stimulate investigators from other areas to lend their expertise in research in CTS; and
3. provide initial support to establish proof of concept.

Projects must be feasible within the proposed timeframe, have high methodological and scientific quality, and answer important scientific questions.

Applications due: Nov 14, 2023

Learn more at tracs.unc.edu/services/pilot-program/cts

Incorporating Social Determinants of Health Into PCORnet

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Keith Marsolo, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine

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Part 1 of this course will be offered over two afternoons (10/17/23 and 10/19/23 from 1pm – 5pm US Eastern) via Zoom only. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

This course is the first in a two-part scale development 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 series.

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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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Engaging Patient, Community, and Other Partners in Your Research is a multi-part online training series. 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.

Those who are in the process of developing, implementing, or revising a patient and/or community engagement plan for an active or upcoming project may be interested in attending our Engagement in Research Interactive Workshop, during which participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and seek feedback on their engagement plans in a small group setting.

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.

Mental Health Phenotyping in Osteoarthritis: From Concept to Implementation

Join the UNC School of Medicine Thurston Arthritis Research Center for a UNC Core Center for Clinical Research (CCCR) Speaker Series seminar featuring Trevor Lentz, PT, PhD, MPH. Lentz is an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine. He is also affiliated with Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke Surgical Center for Outcomes Research and Equity in Surgery.

Mental health needs can have a significant impact on treatment outcomes for osteoarthritis. Clinical phenotyping has strong potential to inform the development of tailored treatment pathways that address common mental health needs. In this presentation, Lentz will describe a line of work focused on using routinely-administered screening tools to identify mental health phenotypes among people with osteoarthritis. He will then discuss challenges and opportunities associated with implementing phenotype-specific treatment pathways in a comprehensive osteoarthritis management program at Duke University.

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NC BERD Seminar: Implementation Science: Bringing your innovation to scale in the real world

This session will provide an overview of methods used in implementation science and dissemination of research into clinical care and healthcare systems.

Presenter: Jaime Hughes, PhD
Assistant Professor, Implementation Science, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

This event is hosted by Wake Forest and 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.

UNC NRP October 2023 Education Session: Research Administration for the Non-Administrators

Please join the UNC Network for Research Professionals and Cassandra Barnhart, MPH, Senior Research Administration Manager at the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, for a presentation on how non-administrators can navigate the complex world of clinical research administration.

Objectives:

• Learn the different types of clinical trials
• Learn the life cycle of a clinical trial
• Learn how to navigate the systems to make start-up more efficient

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Part 1 of this course will be offered over two afternoons (10/17/23 and 10/19/23 from 1pm – 5pm US Eastern) via Zoom only. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

This course is the first in a two-part scale development 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 series.

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A National Initiative to Eliminate Hepatitis C in the United States – Why This Matters to Clinical Trialists

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Rachael L. Fleurence, PhD, MSc
Senior Advisor
National Institutes of Health

Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD
Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement
Director, Bloomberg American Health Initiative
Professor of the Practice in Health Policy and Management

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The Office of Research Technologies and Office of Sponsored Programs are coordinating core tours of some of UNC's fantastic core facilities during University Research Week. Meet the core directors and staff, learn about new and upcoming events, view instrumentation, and imagine how collaboration with UNC cores can expand your science! No registration necessary.

PLEASE NOTE: This class will be covered over two afternoons: 10/23/2023 from 2pm - 4pm AND 10/25/2023 from 3pm - 5pm

Due to increasing survey costs and declining response rates, probability panels have become a major research vehicle for private, foundational, non-profit, academic, and even federally sponsored surveys. Panels are a unique type of survey research platform: Unlike cross-sectional surveys, panels of course recruit respondents specifically for future participation in surveys. In return, panelists are financially compensated, typically to join the panel in the first place, and then secondarily for each survey in which they participate.

These differences to cross-sectional surveys have a range of potential implications. How does the method and effort of recruiting impact who joins, and as a consequence what is best practice? What do panels do to retain panelists over time and which strategies are more successful than others? How much of a concern is panel conditioning, that is, the impact of persons repetitively taking surveys over time, and what are the implications for how frequently panelists should take surveys? How do panels, which exclusively request that panelists take surveys on the Internet, deal with people who do not have or are not comfortable using the Internet? What is the impact of panelist attrition and what are best efforts to replenish retired panelists? How successful are panels are executing true longitudinal surveys? And, given the additional layers of complexity, how are panel surveys properly weighted and estimated?

This short course is designed to provide a guide for consumers of probability-based panels to understand what they are working with: What questions to ask and what features to understand about probability panels in evaluating their use for data collections, and how to best use probability-based panel data. Additionally, it will serve as an exploration of best practices for practitioners: Raising issues of total survey error sources, data quality, costs, and operational logistics.

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Community Forum: Co-Creating Community-Centered Emergency Action Plans

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is hosting community forums where community leaders, organizations and partners will gather to share and respond to resources and ideas that mitigate the spread of emerging infections and address social determinants of health. These forums will facilitate discussion to create and implement action plans in preparation for pandemic/emergent pathogens.

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De-black-boxing health AI: demonstrating reproducible machine learning computable phenotypes using the N3C-RECOVER Long COVID model in the All of Us data repository

Join the N3Community Forum to keep up to date on the latest N3C activity. This forum is held on a weekly basis and features one to two presentations from members of the N3C community on selected topics regarding their work with N3C. Each presentation is followed by a discussion session open to participants. This week's presentation features Emily Pfaff, PhD, discussing machine learning computable phenotypes using the N3C-RECOVER Long COVID model in the All of Us data repository.

Speaker:
Emily Pfaff, PhD
NC TraCS Institute

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The Office of Research Technologies and Office of Sponsored Programs are coordinating core tours of some of UNC's fantastic core facilities during University Research Week. Meet the core directors and staff, learn about new and upcoming events, view instrumentation, and imagine how collaboration with UNC cores can expand your science! No registration necessary.

Chronic Pain and Resilience: How Do We Harness the Power of Joy, Optimism and Love?

Join the UNC School of Medicine Thurston Arthritis Research Center for a UNC Core Center for Clinical Research (CCCR) Speaker Series seminar featuring Afton Hassett, PsyD. Hassett is the Director of Pain and Opioid Research at the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center and an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan Medical School.

This talk will review the role of thoughts and emotions in the neurobiology of chronic pain and explore how more adaptive thoughts, positive emotions and healthy relationships decrease the experience of pain and lead to a more rewarding life.

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Engagement in Research Nuts & Bolts: Specific Approaches for Engaging Patient & Community Partners in Research

There is no "one-size-fits-all" approach to engaging patient, community, or other partners in your research. Rather, there are a variety of engagement methods to suit your study's needs, your research team's capacity, and your partners' interests.

This online training will describe three common approaches for working with patient, community, and other partners in your research: 1) consultative community feedback sessions; 2) advisory boards; and 3) sustained collaboration with partners as members of the research team.

The session will cover considerations for choosing these specific engagement methods, as well as concrete processes and steps for implementing each approach. Participation in our Engagement in Research 101 training is 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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Engaging Patient, Community, and Other Partners in Your Research is a multi-part online training series. 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.

Those who are in the process of developing, implementing, or revising a patient and/or community engagement plan for an active or upcoming project may be interested in attending our Engagement in Research Interactive Workshop, during which participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and seek feedback on their engagement plans in a small group setting.

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.

The Office of Research Technologies and Office of Sponsored Programs are coordinating core tours of some of UNC's fantastic core facilities during University Research Week. Meet the core directors and staff, learn about new and upcoming events, view instrumentation, and imagine how collaboration with UNC cores can expand your science! No registration necessary.

Intermediate Qualtrics

This course will cover topics beyond the scope of the Introduction to Qualtrics short course. Take a deeper dive into “Survey Flow” features, including routing with branches, embedded data, customizing the “End of Survey” experience, and randomization. Explore embedded data, and several ways to import or set data in your survey through contact list fields, anonymous URLs, and conditions within your survey. Additional topics will include piping, authentication, managing results, re-coding values, exporting and importing data, and creating reports.

This is a hands-on course. Completion of Introduction to Qualtrics or understanding basic Qualtrics principles prior to this course is required. All participants are required to create a Qualtrics account before the course.

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PLEASE NOTE: This class will be covered over two afternoons: 10/23/2023 from 2pm - 4pm AND 10/25/2023 from 3pm - 5pm

Due to increasing survey costs and declining response rates, probability panels have become a major research vehicle for private, foundational, non-profit, academic, and even federally sponsored surveys. Panels are a unique type of survey research platform: Unlike cross-sectional surveys, panels of course recruit respondents specifically for future participation in surveys. In return, panelists are financially compensated, typically to join the panel in the first place, and then secondarily for each survey in which they participate.

These differences to cross-sectional surveys have a range of potential implications. How does the method and effort of recruiting impact who joins, and as a consequence what is best practice? What do panels do to retain panelists over time and which strategies are more successful than others? How much of a concern is panel conditioning, that is, the impact of persons repetitively taking surveys over time, and what are the implications for how frequently panelists should take surveys? How do panels, which exclusively request that panelists take surveys on the Internet, deal with people who do not have or are not comfortable using the Internet? What is the impact of panelist attrition and what are best efforts to replenish retired panelists? How successful are panels are executing true longitudinal surveys? And, given the additional layers of complexity, how are panel surveys properly weighted and estimated?

This short course is designed to provide a guide for consumers of probability-based panels to understand what they are working with: What questions to ask and what features to understand about probability panels in evaluating their use for data collections, and how to best use probability-based panel data. Additionally, it will serve as an exploration of best practices for practitioners: Raising issues of total survey error sources, data quality, costs, and operational logistics.

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Community Forum: Co-Creating Community-Centered Emergency Action Plans

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is hosting community forums where community leaders, organizations and partners will gather to share and respond to resources and ideas that mitigate the spread of emerging infections and address social determinants of health. These forums will facilitate discussion to create and implement action plans in preparation for pandemic/emergent pathogens.

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The largest multidisciplinary and multicultural STEM diversity event in the country, SACNAS' premier conference is a gathering which serves to equip, empower, and energize participants for their academic and professional paths in STEM. Over the course of the event, college-level through professional attendees are immersed in cutting-edge STEM research, professional development sessions, motivational keynote speakers, and the Graduate School & Career Expo Hall, as well as multicultural celebrations and traditions, and an inclusive and welcoming community of peers, mentors, and role models. Simply put, the NDiSTEM Conference is a broadly inclusive space where you are encouraged and empowered to bring your whole self to STEM.

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Integrating Artificial Intelligence Into Health Care: Ethical and Legal Challenges

Featuring:
I. Glenn Cohen, JD
Professor of Law
Harvard School of Law

In this year's Merrimon Lecture, Cohen will address how hospital systems, device makers, and artificial intelligence (AI) developers are spending enormous amounts of money to bring AI, and especially machine learning, into health care. These efforts raise formidable logistical and design challenges. They also raise just as formidable legal and ethical challenges.

Cohen is one of the world's leading experts on the intersection of bioethics, the law, and health law. His current projects are related to big data, medical AI, health information technologies, mobile health, reproduction/reproductive technology, research ethics, organ transplantation, rationing in law and medicine, health policy, FDA law, COVID-19, translational medicine, and medical tourism.

Location: 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium or via Webex.

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The largest multidisciplinary and multicultural STEM diversity event in the country, SACNAS' premier conference is a gathering which serves to equip, empower, and energize participants for their academic and professional paths in STEM. Over the course of the event, college-level through professional attendees are immersed in cutting-edge STEM research, professional development sessions, motivational keynote speakers, and the Graduate School & Career Expo Hall, as well as multicultural celebrations and traditions, and an inclusive and welcoming community of peers, mentors, and role models. Simply put, the NDiSTEM Conference is a broadly inclusive space where you are encouraged and empowered to bring your whole self to STEM.

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Being Public and Engaging Policy

This one-day course will be offered via Zoom only. Course schedule is 10:00am – 3:30pm, with 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.

Academics are increasingly asked to engage with public actors from policymakers to journalists. Rarely, however, are academics given any guidance or strategies for doing so. In this workshop, Dr. Ray will provide strategies for interacting with journalists, policymakers, and bureaucrats. Participants will learn best practices for amplifying their research to broader publics as well as ways to engage in self-care to continue the work. In addition to publishing over 50 books, articles, and book chapters, Ray has testified at the federal and state levels and written over 50 op-eds for outlets including New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, and Insider. Ray has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, and others. From 2018-2022, Ray co-edited Contexts Magazine: Sociology for the Public, which garnered over one million views and downloads per year. He was recently awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship.

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Digital, Decentralized and Democratized: Lessons From The Yale PaxLC Trial

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM
Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
Section of Cardiovascular Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
Director, Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation

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The largest multidisciplinary and multicultural STEM diversity event in the country, SACNAS' premier conference is a gathering which serves to equip, empower, and energize participants for their academic and professional paths in STEM. Over the course of the event, college-level through professional attendees are immersed in cutting-edge STEM research, professional development sessions, motivational keynote speakers, and the Graduate School & Career Expo Hall, as well as multicultural celebrations and traditions, and an inclusive and welcoming community of peers, mentors, and role models. Simply put, the NDiSTEM Conference is a broadly inclusive space where you are encouraged and empowered to bring your whole self to STEM.

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Economic Empowerment: Advancing the Community

The Office of Engagement and Outreach at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will host the third annual Community & Economic Engagement Summit, co-sponsored by MassMutual, during its 97th Homecoming. This summit features a diverse slate of dynamic presenters, including keynote speaker Mignon Francois, founder and CEO of The Cupcake Collection. A panel discussion centered on entrepreneurship and several concurrent breakout sessions are also scheduled throughout the day. The summit is designed for aspiring entrepreneurs and current business owners, regional and state community members, government officials who are involved in fiscal policy and all members of the Aggie family. It will focus on strategies that inform participants about the connectivity between building personal wealth and building healthier, sustainable communities.

Additionally, registered participants will enjoy networking sessions on topics related to community land trusts, communication and storytelling in business, government roles in small business subsidies, upscaling from pop-up to brick and mortar and equity programs for underserved communities.

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Quantitative and Qualitative Data Collection Techniques for Health Measurements

This 6-hour course will be offered via Zoom over 2 mornings (10/31/23 and 11/2/23). Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

Course Summary:

Measuring someone’s health by means of questionnaires is a challenging task. The concept of health is very broad – it encompasses a person’s physical, social and mental state – which makes conceptualization difficult. In addition, there is a high risk of socially desirable answers, since people like to indicate that they are doing well. Finally, health research is often conducted among people who are not fit or the elderly for whom surveys are a cognitively demanding task.

This course will focus on both qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques to measure health. First, participants will learn about collecting qualitative data on health through semi-structured interviews and researcher driven photo-elicitation interviews. Ensuring the scientific quality of these forms of data collection will be discussed on the basis of Guba and Lincoln’s trustworthiness criteria. Finally, we pay attention to analyzing qualitative data by means of a thematic analysis. Second, we give an introduction to the design and implementation of quantitative surveys. Participants will learn more about the design of survey questionnaires and the survey features that affect data quality. Special attention will be paid to the design of response scales.

Level: Beginner, some basic knowledge on survey research methodology is helpful

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