Medicaid Expansion and Opioid Use Seminar

3005 Michael Hooker Research Center (Carmen Hooker Odom Conference Room) 135 Dauer Drive, Chapel Hill, United States

Alex Gertner, MD/PhD candidate in the Department of Health Policy and Management and Injury and Violence Prevention Fellow at the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center, will present a talk titled... Read more »

2019 Patricia F. Waller Lecture: Information Systems

Sonja Haynes Stone Center 150 South Rd., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Dr. Emanuel Robinson of Westat will be the keynote speaker for the 2019 Patricia F. Waller Lecture, an annual lecture honoring the legacy of Dr. Patricia Waller, the founding Director... Read more »

Lunch and Learn: Ebola in West Africa

3100 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Working as a Physician Assistant in Liberia, Sam Tozay helped with the West African Ebola outbreaks. Learn about his experience with regulatory research and his current project, the UNC Ebola... Read more »

Robert C. Millikan Seminar

2308 McGavran-Greenberg Hall McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

This year's seminar will be led by Timothy Rebbeck, PhD.  Dr. Rebbeck is the Vincent L. Gregory, Jr. Professor of Cancer Prevention in Epidemiology at the  Harvard T.H. Chan School Of... Read more »

BIOS Seminar: The sps3 experience

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Auditorium (0001 Michael Hooker Research Center) Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Leslie McClure, PhD, professor and chair of epidemiology and biostatistics at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health, will present "A Post-Hoc Evaluation of a Sample Size Re-estimation: The SPS3... Read more »

Preclincial Vaccine Evaluation Seminar

133 Rosenau Hall (Joan Heckler Gillings Auditorium) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Ralph Baric, PhD, professor in the UNC Departments of Epidemiology and Microbiology and Immunology, will present a seminar titled "Preclinical Vaccine Evaluation." Ralph Baric’s research specializes in coronaviruses and emerging infections like Zika virus. In a recent interview, he discusses whether the world is prepared for the next superbug outbreak. In 2017, Dr. Baric was... Read more »

PrEP in 2019 Talk

1131 Bioinformatics Building 130 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Christopher Hurt, MD, associate profession in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UNC School of Medicine, will present a talk titled "PrEP in 2019: State of the Science and Challenges Ahead." Refreshments will be served. Christopher Hurt, MD, is an associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UNC School of Medicine... Read more »