January 26, 2022
Pharmacist’s Update: COVID-19 Therapeutics
Current therapeutic options and resources to aid appropriate selection.
Category: Covid-19 / Coronavirus
January 26, 2022
Precision Medicine Approaches to Addressing COVID-19 Mini-Symposium
Join the UNC Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) for Precision Medicine Approaches to Addressing COVID-19, a free virtual mini-symposium from 1:00-3:00pm on Wednesday February 23, 2022. Presenters will explore how data has informed our response to the COVID-19 pandemic: the collection, analysis, and interpretation of COVID-related data.
January 25, 2022
Willis Authors BMJ Editorial on Decrease in Hospital Admissions for Child Infections during Pandemic
The UNC School of Medicine’s Zachary Willis, MD, MPH, co-authored an editorial published in the British Medical Journal in conjunction with new research that shows dramatic reductions in hospital admissions for common and severe childhood infections in England during the pandemic.
December 21, 2021
Q&A: Dittmer Explains How CORVASEQ Surveillance Program Detects Variants like Omicron
Dirk Dittmer, PhD, explains how UNC-led CORVASEQ program helps to track the spread and development of variants like Omicron in North Carolina.
December 15, 2021
NC Child Hunger Leaders Conference Set for February 2022
The NC Child Hunger Leaders Conference will return for its 11th annual event on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022.
December 15, 2021
Reminder: Eshelman Institute Grant Funding Available
The Eshelman Institute for Innovation recently opened its pre-proposal application for the 2022 annual grant cycle. The Institute seeks to fund translational research related to therapeutics focused on oncology, infectious disease, and neuroscience, including rare diseases, and all digital health technologies. The Institute also welcomes ideas for devices and diagnostics, and other therapeutic areas and services.
December 14, 2021
UNC-Led CORVASEQ Surveillance Program Detects Omicron Variant in North Carolina
The Coronavirus Variant Sequencing (CORVASEQ) Surveillance Program, led by a team of UNC researchers, has detected the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant in North Carolina. Together, members of the program at UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Charlotte, Duke, Wake Forest, and East Carolina have sequenced more than 10,000 samples from COVID-19 positive patients to track the spread and development of the virus across the state.
December 7, 2021
Mieses Malchuk Shares the Importance of Getting Vaccinated While Pregnant
COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective for pregnant people and their developing baby. Hear expert advice from Alexa Mieses Malchuk, MD, about staying protected.
December 1, 2021
UNC Health Hosts Media Briefing on Omicron Variant
On Wednesday, UNC Health experts David Wohl, and Melissa Miller met with the media to answer questions and offer their expertise regarding what we know so far about the Omicron COVID-19 variant.
November 29, 2021
DCRI, UNC CHER, and Partners Launch Free Testing Project to Slow the Spread of COVID-19
The Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), Center for Health Equity Research at UNC-Chapel Hill (UNC-CHER), and Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) today announced plans to deliver their You & Me COVID-Free testing project in Merced County, Calif., in partnership with United Way.
November 23, 2021
Corbie-Smith Co-Authors Opinion on Data Inclusivity
Giselle Corbie, CHER Director, has co-authored an opinion piece for STAT with Warren Kibbe of the Duke Cancer Institute, calling for engaging communities “around how and why data affect them.”
November 23, 2021
InsideTraCS with Emily Pfaff, PhD
Emily Pfaff, PhD, is Co-director of Informatics and Data Science at NC TraCS. She has a PhD in Health Informatics and a master's in Information Science, both from UNC. Her primary expertise and research interests are in "computable phenotyping" and clinical data modeling in support of translational research. We recently spoke with Pfaff about improving/refining health data collection and analysis, COVID research, and the role of informatics in solving today's pressing health problems.