Join a live training session for the N3C Data Enclave. Users of all types can learn how to navigate the N3C, utilize the Enclave and resources it provides, and learn how to better achieve their analytical goals. This orientation is split into 2 sessions – Session A and Session B. These orientations are ongoing and will alternate week by week. Session A is recommended before attending Session B

Session A is for those who want to learn about N3C, as well as how to engage with project teams and access the data.

Topics include:

• Provide a general overview of N3C, including goals, organization, and community resources such as Domain Teams and Data Liaisons.
• Introduces the 3 data tiers available and important considerations for research driven by the data harmonization process.
• Discusses resources for training and help, as well as the Data Use Request (DUR) process required for researcher access.

Note: This orientation is held alternating Tuesdays | 8-9:30am PT/11am-12:30pm ET

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How do you explain your study to your potential study participant?

Converting scientific concepts into layman’s terms, foster engaging informed consent conversations, and obtaining successful enrollment can be hard. Join the NC TraCS Recruitment and Retention Program to learn how to meet your target audience where they are and write clear, concise recruitment materials.

Recruitment Series Sessions

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The NC TraCS Recruitment and Retention Program is a 4-part recruitment series culminating in a hands-on material design workshop. In this series, you will learn how to effectively pitch your study, communicate your study to a broad audience, and create eye-catching recruitment materials.

Methods for Cross-Cultural Research is a 2.5 hour short-course focused on designing and implementing social science research cross-culturally, with a particular emphasis on collecting interview data. In the face of increasing globalization, concerns for external validity, and the importance of capturing the diversity of human experience, there is a need to consider how to implement research cross-culturally. In this course, participants will consider different definitions of culture, how research is itself a cultural practice, what perspectives and analytical approaches can be employed in cross-cultural research, as well as best practices in designing and implementing cross-cultural research.

Instructor: Allegra Midgette

Allegra J. Midgette, Ph.D. is an incoming (August 2021) Visiting Assistant Professor and ACES Fellow in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University. Dr. Midgette completed her postdoctoral training at the Carolina Consortium on Human Development that is part of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Midgette has collaborated with scholars at the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Brazil), Northeast Normal University (China), Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (China), and Seoul National University of Education (South Korea). Dr. Midgette has conducted studies examining Chinese and South Korean children’s and families’ moral reasoning regarding the fairness of the gendered division of labor, Chinese and American children’s and adolescents’ social and moral transgressions and strategies for self-correction, and Korean adolescents’ reasoning about social conventions. Dr. Midgette employs a mixed methodology that places the experiential reality of children and their families at the forefront. Dr. Midgette’s program of research includes an emphasis on analyzing and integrating both developmental and cultural processes in understanding social development.

Registration fees

• $20 deposit required to hold your spot (deposit is refundable upon your attendance for at least 66% of the course)

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This class will be offered via Zoom ONLY. However, this course will not be recorded. Registration closes at 12:01am on 9/26/2021. Once registration closes, no late registrations will be accepted. NO EXCEPTIONS!

* Zoom link for this course will be sent prior to the course. Registration must be made at least 3 days prior to the course date to receive the Zoom link.

As of October 1, 2021, the Office of Human Research Ethics (OHRE) is releasing an updated SOP #1401. SOP #1401 was previously entitled “New Safety Information” and will now be titled “Promptly Reportable Information”. The SOP has been revised to increase readability by revising the formatting, updating definitions, and amending tables. As part of this release, OHRE will be offering a new IRBIS form and annotated instructions and examples. The OHRE strongly encourages study personnel to attend this session as it relates to reporting requirements. 

Key Discussion Topics:

1. Overview of Definitions – revised definitions
2. Updates to the NSI Form in IRBIS
3. Format changes to the SOP

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Exploratory data analysis is useful to understand a dataset—to find insights and generate hypotheses, rather than test hypotheses. It's easy to understand a dataset when it's small, just a couple of patients and relatively low number of variables. What do you do if there are many variables or many data? How can we understand what's going on in the data, then?

In this session of the TraCS Biostatistics Seminar series, you will learn more about statistical methods to explore high-dimensional datasets.

Presenter: Jeff Laux, PhD
Research Associate, Biostatistics Team
NC Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill

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CANCELLED: This panel discussion will be rescheduled for a Friday in December.

This seminar series is aimed at research professionals, graduate students, postdocs and early stage faculty researchers. In this series, we cover foundational skills useful for career development in clinical/translational research.

The TraCS Professional Development Seminar series is split into 4 modules: Finding Funding, Communication Skills, Mentor-Mentee Training, and Rigor and Reproducibility.

Finding Funding

Through the UNC Event Registration system, you will be able to select which sessions you would like to attend. Please note: the Zoom link that you receive upon registration will work for all sessions within the Finding Funding module. Each session will be held in-person and/or via Zoom on Fridays.

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COVID-OUT: From Computer Modeling to a Phase III Trial of Early Outpatient Treatment for SARS-CoV-2 Infection

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features: 

Carolyn Bramante, MD, MPH
Division of General Internal Medicine
Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Core faculty in the Program in Health Disparities Research and the Center for Pediatric Obesity Medicine
University of Minnesota Medical School

Thomas Murray, PhD
Division of Biostatistics
Coordinating Centers for Biometric Research
School of Public Health
University of Minnesota

Jared Huling, PhD
Division of Biostatistics
School of Public Health
University of Minnesota

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