Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research

The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research seeks to improve the health of individuals, families, and populations by understanding the problems, issues and alternatives in the design and delivery of health care services. This is accomplished through an interdisciplinary program of research, consultation, technical assistance and training that focuses on timely and policy-relevant questions concerning the accessibility, adequacy, organization, cost and effectiveness of health care services and the dissemination of this information to policy makers and the general public.

Upcoming Events

2013 Office of the Provost Engaged Scholarship Award

UNC-Chapel Hill

The Project GRACE Consortium has been selected to receive a 2013 Office of the Provost Engaged Scholarship Award for community-university partnership. Project GRACE uses a community-based participatory research approach toaddress health disparities.

The Consortium is led by Giselle Corbie-Smith and Doris Howington.

Apr 23
12-1:00 pm

Program on Health Workforce Research & Policy
The Impact of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Laws on Retail Clinic Cost, Utilization, and Welfare
Joanne Spetz, PhD, FAAN, Professor, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies & School of Nursing, Faculty Researcher, Center for Health Professions, University of California, San Francisco
--Sheps Center 1st floor, DeFriese Room 150

May 17
9-10am

Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods Series: Applications to Health Services Research
Comparing Episodes of Care and Bundled Payment Approaches
<Link to more info and seminar materials>
Sally Stearns, PhD, Professor, Department of Health Policy & Management
--Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conference Room, 3rd floor

Jun 14
9-10am

Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods Series: Applications to Health Services Research
Comparing Providers and Provider Teams
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Darren DeWalt, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
--Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conference Room, 3rd floor

Jul 19
9-10am

Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods Series: Applications to Health Services Research
Comparing Health Care Systems and Facilities
<Link to more info and seminar materials>
Mark Holmes, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Health Policy & Management
--Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conference Room, 3rd floor

Aug 23
9-10am

Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods Series: Applications to Health Services Research
Comparing Health Care Facilities
<Link to more info and seminar materials>
Alan Brookhart, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
--Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conference Room, 3rd floor

Sep 13
8-10am

Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods Series: Applications to Health Services Research
Alternatives to the Conventional RCT
Michael Kosorok, Ph.D., Professor & Chairman, Department of Biostatistics
Peter Thall, Ph.D., Professor, Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Location: Carolina Club, Alumni Hall I (Breakfast will be provided)

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Full listing of events

Sept 9-10am	Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods Series: Applications to Health Services Research Speaker and time to be announced --Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conference Room, 3rd floor
October 9-10am	Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods Series: Applications to Health Services Research Speaker and time to be announced --Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conference Room, 3rd floor

What's New?

The NC Health Profession Data System has released a report entitled, "Trends in Graduate Medical Education in North Carolina: Challenges and Next Steps." [report]
Sandra Greene has been reappointed to the North Carolina State Health Coordinating Council. For more information, click here.
The NC Health Professions Data System has released the 2011 health professions data. [Data book] [Data]
The NC Health Profession Data System has released a report entitled, "Trends in Medical Education in North Carolina." [report]
The NC Health Profession Data System has released a report entitled, "The Diversity of North Carolina's Health Care Workforce" and presented the findings at the North Carolina Health Professions Diversity Conference on August 29, 2012. [report] [slides]
A year-end report on the project to develop an online, dynamic model for projecting physician supply and demand has been completed by a Sheps team led by Erin Fraher. [report]
The NC Health Profession Data System has released the Fall 2011 Allied Health Job Vacancy Tracking Report. [report]
The American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute has released an update to their online, interactive atlas of the surgical workforce in the US. This updated version includes data on surgical sub-specialties, population data, and health access indicators. [Atlas]

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