Carolina Engagement Week 2025 brings together Carolina faculty, staff and students with community partners to learn about and celebrate engagement and collaboration with North Carolina communities.

Register for the events you want to attend and participate in skill-building workshops, research presentations, panel discussions and more!

View the events at engagementweek.unc.edu/events-calendar.

Carolina Engagement Week 2025 brings together Carolina faculty, staff and students with community partners to learn about and celebrate engagement and collaboration with North Carolina communities.

Register for the events you want to attend and participate in skill-building workshops, research presentations, panel discussions and more!

View the events at engagementweek.unc.edu/events-calendar.

Designing Web Surveys

This 4-hour course will be held online only. Attendance is required as it will not be recorded.

This course will provide an introduction to effectively designing web surveys to avoid common pitfalls that impact data quality and introduce measurement error. The course will focus on the following elements of web survey design – overall formatting and visual layout of screens, selecting and designing questions and response options (e.g., radio buttons, check boxes, grids, and open text fields), error and validation messaging, navigation elements, and usability. Special considerations for designing web surveys to accommodate mobile response will also be covered. This course will also provide an overview of the various web survey software systems available and offer practical guidance on selecting appropriate platforms. However, this course will not provide instruction on the technical aspects of web survey programming or introduce programming languages. The course will draw from empirical literature on best practices coupled with practical considerations when designing and implementing web surveys.

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Carolina Engagement Week 2025 brings together Carolina faculty, staff and students with community partners to learn about and celebrate engagement and collaboration with North Carolina communities.

Register for the events you want to attend and participate in skill-building workshops, research presentations, panel discussions and more!

View the events at engagementweek.unc.edu/events-calendar.

School-Based Prevention of Behavioral & Mental Health Problems: Integrating and Advancing the Evidence Base

Catherine Bradshaw, PhD, MEd

This talk will review some of the current strategies for integrating evidence-based programming in schools to reduce behavioral and mental health problems in children and youth in K-12 settings. Models, such as multi-tiered systems of support and social emotional learning will be featured, along with approaches for optimizing implementation fidelity and scaling to reach rural communities. There will also be particular attention to teacher and contextual factors, and issues related to cost, burden, and equity.

This lecture will be presented by Catherine P. Bradshaw, PhD, MEd. Bradshaw is a university professor and the senior associate dean for research and faculty development at the School of Education and Human Development and is a faculty fellow with the vice president of research at the University of Virginia. She was previously an associate professor and the associate chair of the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she maintains an adjunct faculty position.

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Accelerate your ideas through customer discovery and market opportunity validation!

KickStart Venture Services is recruiting community startups as well as faculty, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students with innovations and an interest in commercialization to participate in their virtual NSF I-Corps program. They will teach you the principles of customer discovery to help you better understand the market potential of your innovation!

The National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps Program (I-Corps) was launched in 2011 and has quickly become one of the world’s largest and most successful technology commercialization accelerators. The I-Corps regional program helps researchers and aspiring innovators determine if they are solving a real-world problem with true market opportunity. NSF’s I-Corps Program not only provides funding, mentoring, and networking opportunities to help commercialize promising technologies, it is offered at NO COST to the community.

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For more information about the I-Corps Program, visit KickStart Venture Services.

Carolina Engagement Week 2025 brings together Carolina faculty, staff and students with community partners to learn about and celebrate engagement and collaboration with North Carolina communities.

Register for the events you want to attend and participate in skill-building workshops, research presentations, panel discussions and more!

View the events at engagementweek.unc.edu/events-calendar.

Engagement in Research 101: Introduction to Engaging Patient & Community Partners in Research (Carolina Engagement Week)

In this training, we use engaging, interactive methods to 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 attendees can leverage to begin engaging partners in research. We will use interactive polls, "chat storms," and breakout rooms to make the session interactive.

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This seminar is offered as part of Carolina Engagement Week and is co-sponsored by NC TraCS and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Program. For more information about this seminar, please visit engagementweek.unc.edu.

The NIH is postponing Rare Disease Day 2025 and will reschedule it to occur in the coming months.

FDA-NIH Rare Disease Day is scheduled for February 27–28, 2025.

This year, NCATS is co-hosting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to provide a free, public event held on the NIH Main Campus at the Natcher Conference Center and virtually. Rare Disease Day aims to raise awareness about rare diseases, the people they affect and NIH and FDA collaborations that address scientific challenges and advance research for new treatments.

The goals of FDA-NIH Rare Disease Day are to:

• Demonstrate the NIH and FDA commitment to advancing research and regulatory support for people affected by rare diseases.
• Highlight NIH and FDA supported rare diseases research and the development of diagnostics and treatments.
• Initiate a mutually beneficial dialogue among the rare diseases community.
• Exchange the latest rare diseases information with stakeholders to advance research and therapeutic efforts.
• Shine a spotlight on stories told by patients living with a rare disease, their caregivers, and their communities.

FDA-NIH Rare Disease Day seeks to bring together a broad audience including patients, patient advocates, caregivers, health care providers, researchers, trainees, students, industry representatives, and government staff. 

For more details, visit ncats.nih.gov.

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Carolina Engagement Week 2025 brings together Carolina faculty, staff and students with community partners to learn about and celebrate engagement and collaboration with North Carolina communities.

Register for the events you want to attend and participate in skill-building workshops, research presentations, panel discussions and more!

View the events at engagementweek.unc.edu/events-calendar.

This online training will provide an introduction to qualitative data analysis, focusing on content/thematic analysis. The session will cover the basics of qualitative data analysis and steps in the analysis process, including transcribing, memoing, codebook development and coding, exploring content areas or themes, and interpreting and communicating findings. Participants will have the opportunity to practice developing and applying codes.

Please note: We will not be demonstrating how to use qualitative data analysis software during this session.

Presenters:

MaryBeth Grewe, MPH
Program Manager, Qualitative Research Service
Research Specialist, Patient and Community Engagement in Research (PaCER) Program
NC TraCS Institute

Simone Frank, MPH
Senior Project Manager, Patient and Community Engagement in Research (PaCER) Program
Research Specialist, Qualitative Research Service
NC TraCS Institute

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The NIH is postponing Rare Disease Day 2025 and will reschedule it to occur in the coming months.

FDA-NIH Rare Disease Day is scheduled for February 27–28, 2025.

This year, NCATS is co-hosting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to provide a free, public event held on the NIH Main Campus at the Natcher Conference Center and virtually. Rare Disease Day aims to raise awareness about rare diseases, the people they affect and NIH and FDA collaborations that address scientific challenges and advance research for new treatments.

The goals of FDA-NIH Rare Disease Day are to:

• Demonstrate the NIH and FDA commitment to advancing research and regulatory support for people affected by rare diseases.
• Highlight NIH and FDA supported rare diseases research and the development of diagnostics and treatments.
• Initiate a mutually beneficial dialogue among the rare diseases community.
• Exchange the latest rare diseases information with stakeholders to advance research and therapeutic efforts.
• Shine a spotlight on stories told by patients living with a rare disease, their caregivers, and their communities.

FDA-NIH Rare Disease Day seeks to bring together a broad audience including patients, patient advocates, caregivers, health care providers, researchers, trainees, students, industry representatives, and government staff. 

For more details, visit ncats.nih.gov.

register

The NIH is postponing Rare Disease Day 2025 and will reschedule it to occur in the coming months.

FDA-NIH Rare Disease Day is scheduled for February 27–28, 2025.

This year, NCATS is co-hosting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to provide a free, public event held on the NIH Main Campus at the Natcher Conference Center and virtually. Rare Disease Day aims to raise awareness about rare diseases, the people they affect and NIH and FDA collaborations that address scientific challenges and advance research for new treatments.

The goals of FDA-NIH Rare Disease Day are to:

• Demonstrate the NIH and FDA commitment to advancing research and regulatory support for people affected by rare diseases.
• Highlight NIH and FDA supported rare diseases research and the development of diagnostics and treatments.
• Initiate a mutually beneficial dialogue among the rare diseases community.
• Exchange the latest rare diseases information with stakeholders to advance research and therapeutic efforts.
• Shine a spotlight on stories told by patients living with a rare disease, their caregivers, and their communities.

FDA-NIH Rare Disease Day seeks to bring together a broad audience including patients, patient advocates, caregivers, health care providers, researchers, trainees, students, industry representatives, and government staff. 

For more details, visit ncats.nih.gov.

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Behavioral Economic and Staffing Strategies To Increase Adoption of the ABCDEF Bundle in the Intensive Care Unit (BEST ICU): Protocol, Challenges, and Major Updates

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Michele C. Balas PhD, RN, CCRN-K, FCCM, FAAN
Associate Dean of Research
Dorothy Hodges Olson Distinguished Professor of Nursing
University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing

Eduard Vasilevskis, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine
University of Wisconsin-Madison

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