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 Experience," Methodologically, Dr. McClure is interested in the design and analysis of randomized clinical trials with multiple outcomes, and methodology for re-estimating sample size in... Read more »

Novant Lecture

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

Mandy Cohen, MD, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), will deliver the Novant Lecture on Thursday, February 21, 2019. More information to follow. This event is organized by doctoral candidates in the Department of Health Policy and Management. Please contact Abby Hoffman with any questions.

Event Series ComSciCon-Triangle 2019

ComSciCon-Triangle 2019

Applications are open for the 5th annual ComSciCon-Triangle - a two-day science communication workshop organized by and for graduate students. The workshop features expert panels with talented local science communicators and activities for students to practice oral and written science communication skills. Both workshop days are all day events schedule from 8:30am to 3pm. To... Read more »

Event Series ComSciCon-Triangle 2019

ComSciCon-Triangle 2019

Applications are open for the 5th annual ComSciCon-Triangle - a two-day science communication workshop organized by and for graduate students. The workshop features expert panels with talented local science communicators and activities for students to practice oral and written science communication skills. Both workshop days are all day events schedule from 8:30am to 3pm. To... Read more »

Tyroler Distinguished Alumni Seminar: Facing Obesity in Mothers and Their Offspring

2306 McGavran-Greenberg Hall McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Michele R. Forman, PhD, FACE, is a distinguished professor and the department head in the Department of Nutrition Science at Purdue University — and an accomplished graduate of the UNC Gillings epidemiology department! She will give a talk titled, "Facing obesity and other co-morbidity in mothers and their offspring: a life course approach." This seminar... Read more »

Biostatistics Seminar: Bounds and Estimators for the Risk Function

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

Stephen R. Cole, PhD, professor of epidemiology at the Gillings School, will present a talk on, "Bounds and Estimators for the Risk Function." Dr. Cole works to build accurate and... Read more »