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Engaging primary care practices in rural N.C.: Lessons from the Heart Health Now study

219 Brinkhous-Bullitt Building Brinkhous-Bullitt Building, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Cardiovascular event rates can be 50% higher in rural N.C. counties than in metropolitan areas. With little informatics support, Heart Health Now engaged 219 small primary care practices in N.C. to help implement new evidence-based strategies to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Samuel Cykert will discuss key implementation lessons and study findings from this statewide... Read more »

Text Analysis Using R

Room 219 Davis Library 208 Raleigh St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Text analysis is a promising new approach that uses machine learning to discover patterns, trends, and other information by using text as data. Participants will develop the skills and understanding necessary to collect text data from a variety of sources, including websites and APIs. Participants will gain practical skills for completing their own analyses using... Read more »

NC Child Hunger Leaders Conference

William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education, 100 Friday Center Dr, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Register now for the NC Child Hunger Leaders Conference! Come and hear stories from a diverse group of leaders who are finding innovative ways to feed children. WHEN: Wednesday, February 19, 2020, from 8 am-4 pm WHERE: UNC Friday Center for Continuing Education *There is a $40 registration fee, which will cover the cost of... Read more »

Dissertation Defense: Natalie Blackburn

2301 McGavran-Greenberg Hall McGavran-Greenberg Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

You are invited to attend the public dissertation defense of Natalie Blackburn: "An Economic Evaluation of an Alcohol Reduction Intervention in the HIV Clinic Setting in Vietnam" Wednesday, February 19 11 a.m. - noon, McGavran-Greenberg 2301 Committee: Vivian F. Go, PhD (Chair), David W. Dowdy, PhD, Shelley Golden, PhD, Carol E. Golin, PhD, Nisha C.... Read more »

Diversity Job Fair

Ram's Head Recreation Center 340 Ridge Road , Chapel Hill

Meet employers from for-profit, non-profit and government sectors that are interested in fostering workforce diversity.

Event Series Sustainable Scholarship Discussion

Sustainable Scholarship Discussion

214 Davis Library 208 Raleigh St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

A conversation with Nandita Mani and Sarah Wright about the cost of scholarly information and the implications for UNC-Chapel Hill. In February, the University of California canceled its contract with Elsevier due to unacceptable license terms and subscription costs. Elsevier is the world's largest publisher of scholarly journals. The terms by which it sells content to... Read more »

Data Visualization Lunch and Learn

2305 McGavran-Greenberg Hall McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The Student Global Health Committee will be hosting its second Data Visualization Lunch and Learn with Lorin Bruckner from the UNC Research Hub. Come learn more about best practices in this emerging topic in public health and how you can incorporate data visualization into your own work! Contact Kay Schaffer with any questions.

Spring Job & Internship Fair

Ram's Head Recreation Center 340 Ridge Road , Chapel Hill

Meet employers hiring for full-time positions and internships.

Event Series Sustainable Scholarship Discussion

Sustainable Scholarship Discussion

215 Health Sciences Library 335 S. Columbia St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

A conversation with Nandita Mani and Sarah Wright about the cost of scholarly information and the implications for UNC-Chapel Hill. In February, the University of California canceled its contract with Elsevier due to unacceptable license terms and subscription costs. Elsevier is the world's largest publisher of scholarly journals. The terms by which it sells content to... Read more »

Probably Approximately Correct Causal Discovery

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

The Department of Biostatistics welcomes Dr. David Page for his talk "Probably Approximately Correct Causal Discovery." Dr. Page works on algorithms for data mining and machine learning, and their applications to biomedical data, especially de-identified electronic health records and high-throughput genetic and other molecular data.

Delivery of biomolecules to the mammalian gut using engineered probiotic Saccharomyces boulardii

2004 Marsico Hall

Dr. Nathan Crook’s research focuses on developing new methods for engineering microbes, and applying these methods to improve human health. As a graduate student at UT Austin, he developed several new methods to genetically engineer baker’s yeast, including RNAi screens and continuous directed evolution approaches using retrotransposons. Dr. Crook also developed model-based approaches for yeast... Read more »

Environmental Sciences and Engineering Open House

UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health 135 Dauer Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering (ESE) is hosting an admitted student day for Graduate Students (PhD ,MS, MSPH,  MSEE and dual degree) on Friday, Feb. 21. This is an all-day event focused on research and time for students to meet with faculty and get to know the department. Please contact Jennifer Joyce Moore... Read more »

DNA Methylation and Breast Cancer: Signals of Mechanism and Risk

2301 McGavran-Greenberg Hall McGavran-Greenberg Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Alterations in epigenetic processes have been implicated in breast cancer development. One such epigenetic process — DNA methylation — might provide important insights into breast cancer. In this seminar, Dr. Jacob Kresovich will describe how changes in breast tissue DNA methylation may steer development towards specific tumor subtypes. He will also demonstrate novel ways that... Read more »

From data to story: a healthcare case study

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

The typical graph in a presentation often leads our audience wondering... so what? When that question isn’t succinctly answered through effective visuals and story, it can lead our audience asking for more data, more data and more data. In shifting from exploring data to explaining data, we have to take intentional steps to enable our... Read more »