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 offered on a monthly basis. Session A is recommended before attending Session B.

Session B is for analysts, statisticians, data scientists, or anyone who wants to gain a broader understanding of the tools needed to work with the data.

Topics include:

• Focus on technical aspects of working with data in the secure N3C Enclave, including use of OMOP concept sets and N3C-specific tooling, such as the Concept Set Browser.
• Introduce commonly used analysis tools, such as Contour and Code Workbooks and corresponding workflows for simple analyses.
• Introduce the Enclave Knowledge Store, a mechanism for sharing and using community-developed code and data across projects.

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NCATS is hosting a virtual 10-year anniversary event to highlight how the Center’s innovative and team-science approach addresses unmet needs. Featured topics will spotlight the transformational power of data, novel approaches for de-risking a drug’s journey along the preclinical pathway, crosscutting solutions for many diseases, and high-impact innovations in clinical research. Speakers will provide perspective on remaining roadblocks and new opportunities through conversations and lightning round talks.

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The Race, Racism, and Racial Equity Symposium (hosted by the UNC School of Social Work and Office of the Provost) is returning! “Transformational Research, Dismantling Systems of Oppressions in Justice, Education and Health”, the fifth R3 event in the symposium series, will highlight scholarship from UNC graduate students, research scientists, and faculty. Their work examines racial equity interventions used to dismantle systems of oppression and can help us understand what actions can disrupt racism and create more just systems.

Moderator:
Dr. Travis Albritton - Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the School of Social Work.

Panelists:
Emily Coward - Policy Director of the Decarceration Project, a Durham-based non-profit addressing the harm caused by racialized mass incarceration.
Dane Emmerling - PhD Candidate in UNC Gillings School of Public Health's Department of Human Behavior.
Yolanda Fair - Assistant Public Defender with the Office of Public Defender of the 28th Judicial District.
Ayesha K. Hashim - Assistant Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Deena A. Hayes-Greene - Co-founder and managing director of the Racial Equity Institute LLC, a minority-owned business that brings racial equity training and consultation to communities, organizations, and institutions across the United States.

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Registration is open for the 2021-2022 TraCS Professional Development Seminar series. 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.

Communication Skills

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 Communication Skills module. Each session will be held in-person and/or via Zoom on Fridays.

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Decentralized Trials: Naughty or Nice?

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features: Adrian F. Hernandez, MD, MHS Executive Director, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Vice Dean, Duke University School of Medicine.

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The Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) groups at Duke, UNC, and Wake Forest are all supported by the Clinical and Translational Science Award and have teamed together to share educational and training materials. The following seminar will be shared across all three institutions for Fall 2021.

Visualization is a powerful way to reveal patterns in data, attract attention, and get your message across to an audience quickly and clearly. But, there are many steps in that journey from exploration to information to influence, and many choices to make when putting it all together to tell your story. I will cover some basic guidelines for effective visualization, point out a few common pitfalls to avoid, and run through a critique and iterations of an existing visualization to help you start seeing better choices beyond the program defaults.

Level/audience: Applied biostatisticians, statistics for clinicians

Presenter: 
Eric E Monson, PhD
Data Visualization Specialist
Duke Libraries Center for Data and Visualization Sciences

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