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Check your inbox on Feb. 8 for an email from Press Ganey for your unique link to the 2022 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Climate Survey.

Rebecca Baum, MD, professor of pediatrics, is a featured expert on the American Academy of Pediatrics website healthychildren.org about how parents and pediatricians can address mental health and offer additional support for children.

UNC-Chapel Hill researchers publishing in journals from PLOS will no longer need to pay article processing charges. The waiver is thanks to the University Libraries’ participation in several PLOS publishing partnerships. The agreements pilot various ways for institutions to reduce the fee burden for open access publishing and to increase the amount of high-quality peer-reviewed research in open circulation.

The School of Medicine’s MD program is seeking to diversify the educators who teach our medical students. We seek a postdoctoral fellow from an underrepresented group or with experience teaching individuals from groups underrepresented in medicine to teach in the medical school curriculum.

Current therapeutic options and resources to aid appropriate selection.

"Keep your head up, keep fighting, and just know that you're appreciated and you're making a huge difference in everything that happens in our world," Coach Mack Brown said.

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.

The third annual Mini Med School, a 5-week lecture series featuring MD/PhD students, faculty and fellows at the UNC School of Medicine, will begin in February.

TraCS Team Science is seeking to assist UNC researchers with the formation and development of multidisciplinary research teams focused on tackling challenging problems in clinical or translational medicine through the new ACTeR program. Phase 2 provides up to $50,000 and up to 0.5 FTE Project Manager support for up to 12 months to support the generation of preliminary data and grant application preparation. Submissions are due March 16, 2022.

Join PROMISE PIs Dr. Susan Girdler, Dr. Friederike Jayes, and the PROMISE research staff for more information on participating in research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Diversity Program Consortium, to identify best mentoring practices for scientists underrepresented in biomedical research.

Starting this week, UNC Health’s owned entities* and the UNC School of Medicine will begin making N95 masks available for teammates as an additional mask option due to the high transmissibility of the Omicron variant in our communities.

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.

Coming Soon: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Climate Survey, Feb. 8 – 26

How to Talk About Mental Health with Your Child and Their Pediatrician

University Libraries to Cover Open Access Fees for Carolina Authors in PLOS journals

Educational Mentoring Program: Postdoctoral Fellows as Teachers

Pharmacist’s Update: COVID-19 Therapeutics

Coach Brown Delivers Words of Encouragement

Precision Medicine Approaches to Addressing COVID-19 Mini-Symposium

Third Annual Mini Med School Begins in February

TraCS Team Science Accepting Submissions for ACTeR Program Phase 2

PROMISE Study Informational Lunch Sessions Launch Feb. 12

N95 Masks To Be Made Available for All Teammates

Willis Authors BMJ Editorial on Decrease in Hospital Admissions for Child Infections during Pandemic