Social Determinants of Health and Diabetes: Focusing a Newer Lens

Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in diabetes are longstanding and well-documented. While past diabetes disparities research has often highlighted individual-level interventions and behavioral targets to improve disparities, the social determinants of health (SDOH) represent systemic and root cause factors responsible for inequities at the level of populations.

Felicia Hill-Briggs, PhD, ABP will present findings from the ADA’s current SDOH and Diabetes Scientific Review, including nomenclatures for understanding SDOH, evidence of SDOH impact in diabetes, available recommendations for action to mitigate the SDOH, and recommendations for the next generation of diabetes research on SDOH.

If you have questions, contact virtual.seminar.series@vumc.org.

Presenter
Felicia Hill-Briggs, PhD, ABPP, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine Senior Director, Population Health Research and Development Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology & Clinical Research
Johns Hopkins University and Medicine

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COVID 19 Journal Club: Effect of anticoagulation use on in-hospital mortality, effect estimates and immortal bias

In this edition of the COVID-19 Journal Club, the TraCS CER team will discuss a set of articles that examined the effect of anticoagulation use on in-hospital mortality among COVID-19 patients with inconsistent effect estimates.

Join us for a deep dive into the issues that determine how much we can trust Real World Evidence.

Articles:

• Association of Treatment Dose Anticoagulation With In-Hospital Survival Among Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19
• Anticoagulation, Bleeding, Mortality, and Pathology in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19

Presenters

Michele Jonsson-Funk, PhD, Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Gillings School of Public Health

Sara Dejene, Doctoral Candidate, Epidemiology
Gillings School of Public Health

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The REDCap Hands-On Form Building Training Session will teach users to build forms using the online designer or data dictionary. This session will be a click along hands-on/lecture/demo.

Our current REDCap trainings are offered as webinar-only.

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About REDCap

REDCap is a secure web application that can be used to build and manage case report forms, surveys and other data capture mechanisms for clinical research. NC TraCS provides training classes to assist you in getting started with building REDCap data collection forms for your research projects.

Current REDCap training offerings include:

1. Forms (beginner)
2. Forms: Hands On (beginner)
3. Functions (advanced)
4. Open Session (Surveys and general questions)
5. Clinical Data Management (3-day)

For more information, please visit our REDCap webpage.

Wisdom in the Room: Medicine, Faith, and Research: A New Recipe for Collaboration

Pastor James D. Gailliard and Lori Carter-Edwards PhD, MPH will discuss how we can leverage faith spaces for health purposes, describe how research partnerships can develop and evolve in the faith space, and share examples of the roles that faith-based organizations have played during COVID-19.

Wisdom in the Room is a conference call series hosted by the Community and Stakeholder Engagement Program at NC TraCS at UNC-Chapel Hill that provides a forum for information and resource sharing among research stakeholders, community partners, and others interested in community engaged research.

Presenters

Lori Carter Edwards, PhD, MPH, Director, Community and Stakeholder Engagement Program
NC TraCS Institute

Rev. James D. Gaillard, Senior Pastor
Word Tabernacle Church

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This Professional Development seminar is great for research professionals, graduate students, postdocs and early stage faculty researchers. It covers foundational skills useful for career development in clinical/translational research.

The second module of this seminar is titled Communication Skills and will equip attendees with knowledge of how to best communicate within their research teams and with the public. Each session of the seminar will meet Fridays at 12:00 pm. This session is titled: Paper writing.

Presenter
Susan Pusek, DrSc, Director, Education Programs
NC TraCS Institute

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