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What can you do with a $2,000 stakeholder engagement voucher?

13 October 2020

The NC TraCS Stakeholder Engagement Voucher provides funding to enable equitable stakeholder engagement in health research at UNC-Chapel Hill and TraCS Institute-affiliated partner institutions. So what can you do with a...

TraCS collaboration offers tips on the remote consent process

16 September 2020

Due to the presence of COVID-19, many researchers have been hard at work to pivot studies from in-person to remote activities. NC TraCS, in collaboration with the Office for Human Research Ethics, School of Medicine Clinical...

Shaheen assumes role of co-Director for NC TraCS

02 October 2020

Nicholas Shaheen, MD, MPH, the Bozymski-Heizer Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has accepted the role of co-Director for the North Carolina Translational and Clinical...

UNC Rural Health Research Seminar Series

16 September 2020

The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research is excited to begin the 2020-2021 Rural Health Research Seminar Series at UNC-Chapel Hill, funded by Carolina Seminars. This seminar is designed to unite researchers from...

Research Study Design course now available for UNC study personnel

30 September 2020

CITI Program now has a new optional module available for UNC study personnel titled Research Study Design. This course provides learners with an understanding of how to improve study design, collect and analyze data, and...

COVID-19 response and updates

15 September 2020

University updates The COVID-19 Dashboard displays data related to campus, local, and state communities. The dashboard is updated regularly and pulls data from multiple sources to illustrate and track various metrics which...

Harnessing data to improve patient care

28 September 2020

The National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet) is accelerating research that puts the patient front and center. For many years, patient data stored in the electronic health record (EHR) was used primarily...

UCS September Virtual Career Fairs

14 September 2020

Interested in meeting employers who are seeking students for internship and full-time job opportunities? Don’t miss these opportunities provided by University Career Services (UCS) to meet with companies that are seeking to...

Seeking community feedback on COVID Data Dashboard

21 September 2020

NC TraCS is working with the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health to develop a COVID data dashboard for North Carolina. We would like this dashboard to include information that will help you and your communities stay...

Stay up to date on human subjects research policies

11 September 2020

A message from the UNC School of Medicine Clinical Research Support Office (CRSO) Dear UNC Research Community, If you are a faculty or staff member working in any School of Medicine (SOM) department or center and...