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Center for Health Equity Research: K Proposal Workshop – Part 2

3005 Michael Hooker Research Center

https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/wp-content/uploads/sites/462/2018/10/Oct-30-K-Workshop.pdf   Join this two-part workshop focused on preparing and submitting proposals for K awards through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The workshop is designed so that participants have time to work on appropriate parts of their own proposals during the sessions. You will have the opportunity to receive feedback from your peers and from the workshop leader. Much of what will … Read more

Science and Technology Studies and Economics: STS and the Future(s) of Open Science

Duke University, Allen Building, room 314

STS and the Future(s) of Open Science STS often likes to think of itself as ‘radical’, and one tenet of that belief is the conviction that ‘openness’ can fix whatever ails science. Consequently, everyone is enthusiastic that ‘open science’ is the wave of the future. Yet when one seriously examines the flaws in modern science … Read more

CHER Visiting Professor Health Equity Research: Seminar Series

MacNider Hall, Room 321

Using Community Engagement and Evidence-based Parenting Interventions to Prevent Teen Suicide and Depression in the Filipino Community: "If you build it, they will come." https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/wp-content/uploads/sites/462/2018/11/J-Javier-CHER-Health-Equity-Seminar-Nov-2018.pdf Joyce Javier, MD, MPH, MS, FAAP Assistant Professor, Clinical Pediatrics Children's Hospital Los Angeles Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California   Sponsored by the UNC Center for Health Equity Research & NC TraCS Community and Stakeholder … Read more

Bodies across the Border: Discussion on Eugenics, Race & Disability

The UNC-Duke Transnational Bodies Working Group will host this talk by Dr. Sarah Horton and Dr. Natalie Lira https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/wp-content/uploads/sites/462/2018/11/Bodies-Across-the-Border.jpg Thursday, Nov 29, 2018 4:30 p.m. Dey Hall – Toy Lounge UNC-Chapel Hill  

20th Annual World AIDS Day Symposium

Morning session: 8:30AM-12:00PM HIV and Health in the Transgender Community Patient Panel Afternoon session: 1:00PM-3:00PM Multicultural Approaches for Engagement with the Transgender Community Admission is free – Lunch is provided- Please REGISTER by Monday, November 26th, 2018: https://apps.research.unc.edu/events/index.cfm?event=events.eventDetails&event_key=8FC4BCEAFAD8CDC3A32B5ACD5C57BA2838A7E06F https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/wp-content/uploads/sites/462/2018/10/2018-Annual-WAD-Symposium.pdf Presented by the UNC Center for AIDS Research and the UNC Institute for Global Health & Infectious Disease  

The Civil War and Opiate “Insanity”

Bondurant Hall Room 2020

Bullitt History of Medicine Club Lecture: Jonathan S. Jones, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Binghamton In the decades after the Civil War, the United States faced an epidemic of opiate addiction among Civil War veterans. Americans widely feared that opiate addiction among traumatized veterans was linked to the Civil War, and was dangerously … Read more

Keynote Blending the Blues: Advancing Rural Health

Health Sciences Library, 2nd floor

Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc (CHER Director) UNC Interprofessional Education and Practice, Duke AHEAD* Registration Required (please see attached flyer for details)   https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/wp-content/uploads/sites/462/2019/01/Jan-23-Advancing-Rural-Health.pdf  

“When Mice Are Men: Sex Bias in Biomedical and Clinical Research”

MacNider Hall, Room 322 333 So. Columbia St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Dr. Melina Kibbe, the Colin G. Thomas Jr. Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery, will be giving a talk on "When Mice Are Men: Sex Bias in Biomedical and Clinical Research”.   Co-sponsored by the Center for Bioethics, Center for Health Equity Research, and Department of Social Medicine.

Work in Progress: Personal Narratives and the Geography of HIV Inequity

MacNider Hall, Room 322 333 So. Columbia St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Darius Scott, PhD CHER Post Doctoral Fellow   The Center for Health Equity Research's (CHER) Work In Progress Meetings are a monthly presentation series that allows CHER Post-Doctoral Fellows and Associates to present their research to a community of scholars and peers to gather constructive feedback and generate investigative conversation.

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds: Washing Your Hands of It: Ethical Implications of Infection Control Policy and Practice

Bondurant Hall, G100

Emily Landon, MD The University of Chicago Medicine, Medical Director, Infection Control At the intersection of clinical and public health ethics lies the important practices of infection control. Often taken for granted as both proper and necessary, infection control encompasses a variety of practices that invite closer scrutiny. Is isolation worth the burden it imposes … Read more