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

register

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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