Utilizing Probability Panels: Best Practices in Planning, Fielding, and Analysis

This 2-day course (10/23 2-4pm & 10/25 3-5pm) is designed to provide a guide for consumers of probability-based panels to understand what they are working with: What questions to ask and what features to understand about probability panels in evaluating their use for data collections, and how to best use probability-based panel data. It will... Read more »

Intermediate Qualtrics

This course will cover topics beyond the scope of the Introductory to Qualtrics short course. We will take a deeper dive into “Survey Flow” features including routing with branches, embedded data, customizing the “End of Survey” experience, and randomization. We will explore embedded data, and several ways you can import or set data in your... Read more »

Registration open for “Quantitative and Qualitative Data Collection Techniques for Health Measurements”

This course will focus on both qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques to measure health. First, participants will learn about collecting qualitative data on health through semi-structured interviews and researcher driven photo-elicitation interviews. Second, we give an introduction to the design and implementation of quantitative surveys. Participants will learn more about the design of survey... Read more »

Modular Design and Automated Testing with Python

This course will introduce participants to some of the best practices of professional software development. Participants will learn to structure their Python code into reusable functions and store those functions as separate scripts and/or packages. Participants will learn to write automated tests for their functions, to help confirm that results are as expected and to... Read more »

Multi-Item Scale Development Part 2

This course is the second in a two-part scale development course series on scale development. Part one of the series focused on the general theories and methods used in the scale development process. This second portion focuses on the analytic methods used to statistically test, refine, and validate scale data. These methods include Cronbach’s alpha,... Read more »

Dataverse API

This is a full-day, intensive, interactive course focused on using the Dataverse Application Programming Interface (API) to interact with data archived in a Dataverse-based repository. The session will be broken into to two segments over the course of the day: 1) we will cover the basics of what an API is, how it works, and... Read more »

2024 Environmental Justice Lecture

This year’s lecture will feature Dr. Ashley Gripper who is active in food and land justice movements and works with urban and rural growers around the country, she will be giving a talk titled Community Solutions to Food Apartheid: Bridging activism, advocacy and academia. Contact Kristen Cowan with questions.

Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology Seminar Series

253A CEHS

Title:  Inhaled Vitamin D as a Protectant Against Air Pollutant-Induced Oxidative Stress Speaker: Kevin Schichlein (Predoctoral Trainee at UNC in Toxicology and Environmental Medicine) Location: ZOOM (https://unc.zoom.us/j/97260740036?pwd=w2s4GWFkEMPdXDapVqf9f2ytt3uhyb.1)

Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology Seminar Series

253A CEHS

Title: Temperature, Humidity, Fine Particulates, Dementia and Parkinson’s Disease: A Matched Case Control Study Speaker: Erik Slawsky (Predoctoral Trainee at UNC in the Department of Epidemiology) Location: TBD

Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology Seminar Series

Title: The triple jeopardy of climate change and environmental justice Speaker: Joan Casey (Associate Professor at U Washington) Location: ZOOM (https://unc.zoom.us/j/97260740036?pwd=w2s4GWFkEMPdXDapVqf9f2ytt3uhyb.1)