How Inequality Kills: Equity as a Health System Imperative

This event qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the Gillings School's annual inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. How Inequality Kills: Equity as a Health System Imperative Health Equity Seminar Series with Dr. David Ansell (Rush University) Registration required. Speaker: Dr. David A. Ansell, MD, MPH Michael E. Kelly Presidential Professor of... Read more »

2023 Gordon H. DeFriese Distinguished Lecture on Health Services Research and Health Policy

N.C. Botanical Gardens 100 Old Mason Farm Rd., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The 2023 Gordon H. DeFriese Lecture will take place on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, at 1 p.m. at the NC Botanical Garden. Dr. Julia Adler-Milstein's presentation is titled “Turning Digital Fumes into a Breath of Fresh Air”. This event is free and open to UNC community and the public. A zoom option will be available... Read more »

Sheps IT Core Open House

The Sheps Center 725 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

As a part of University Research Week, The Sheps Center is participating in the Research Core Tour. Stop by the Sheps Center to listen to researchers and data scientists highlight projects that use Sheps IT services to learn about the latest research, technologies, and overall what Sheps has to offer. Sheps IT staff will be... Read more »

Friends Don’t Let Friends Deploy Black-Box Models: The Importance of Intelligibility in Machine Learning

Join us at 12pm on Thursday November 9th for an exciting virtual Lunch & Learn hosted by the Sheps Center. Rich Caruana, PhD from Microsoft will talk about the importance of healthcare artificial intelligence models being accurate, unbiased, and safe. Find more details on the event and the zoom link here: https://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/events/friends-dont-let-friends-deploy-black-box-models-the-importance-of-intelligibility-in-machine-learning/ Contact Lindsay McCall... Read more »

Sheps Data Science Week

The Sheps Center 725 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The Sheps Data Week is set for Jan 17-19! Each day will feature different presentations at 12:00pm followed by a Q&A session. Join us in person, Sheps Center room 2002... Read more »

Grand Book Launch of Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State

The Sheps Center 725 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Join the Sheps Center for the Grand Book Launch of Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State! In Equal Care, Seth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH, delves into the social mechanisms that connect injustice to poor health. He presents practical policies designed to create a system of social relations that ensures equal care... Read more »

Sheps Center Lunch & Learn: An Introduction to Double Machine Learning with DoubleML for Python and R

Grab your lunch and join us for an exciting webinar on double machine learning, presented by Philipp Bach, PhD, MSc & Sven Klaaßen, PhD, MSc. Drs. Bach and Klaaßen are postdoctoral researchers at the University of Hamburg, Faculty of Business Administration, Institute of Statistics. Their research focuses on statistical methods for causal machine learning and... Read more »