Assistant professor of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Bianca Allison, MD, MPH, was part of a virtual conversation hosted by PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on November 17, 2022. The discussion was titled “Centering Youth in Supporting Access to Comprehensive Reproductive and Sexual Health Services”. Dr. Allison was joined by two other pediatric experts… Read more »
New Research Provides County-Level ACA Eligibility Data, Highlights Enrollment Gaps
Rural Areas Continue to Face Lower ACA Enrollment Rates than Urban North Carolina A first-of-its-kind dashboard released this month spotlights county-level Affordable Care Act (ACA) eligibility and enrollment estimates along with outreach and enrollment event locations across North Carolina. The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC-Chapel Hill created the tool to… Read more »
Halladay, Cummings Lead a multi-site PCORI Study to Improve Blood Pressure Control testing the effectiveness of using a technology enhanced and interprofessional model of care
Jacqueline Halladay, MD, MPH, from UNC Family Medicine, and Doyle “Skip” Cummings, PharmD, FCP, FCCP, from ECU Brody School of Medicine, and are leading a five-year, $5.6 million dollar Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) grant where the team aims to understand if a technology enabled team based approach results in greater blood pressure control compared… Read more »
Erin Fraher Presented at WWAMI’s 50th Anniversary GME Summit
Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP, the Director of the Sheps Center’s Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy, presented at the WWAMI GME Summit during their 50th anniversary meeting. WWAMI is the regional medical education program named for the five participating states that include Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. The presentation, titled “Using Data to Shape… Read more »
Routine car seat screening is not associated with reduced health care utilization
Primary Care Research Fellowship alum Dr. Wade Harrison recently published a paper looking at the association between routine car seat screening for preterm infants and subsequent health care utilization. Their study found that while the screenings were not associated with health care utilization, they did see that failed screenings led to significantly longer birth hospitalization… Read more »
Sheps Center awarded two federal funding agreements for workforce research
The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and Policy has been awarded two Health Resources and Services Administration agreements to fund research centers. The creation of the Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center will be funded by a five-year $4.5 million award and led by director Brianna Lombardi and deputy director Lisa de Saxe Zerden. The center… Read more »
Dr. Sleath and team from School of Pharmacy create a new website designed to empower teens
A new website (iuveo.org) designed by and for teens has just launched, allowing teenagers and their peers to receive immediate health and wellness tips. “Information for the Evolving Teenager,” or IUVEO, was created to share information and resources about a variety of relevant medical conditions and situations that teenagers may experience at this stage in… Read more »
Zimmerman Earns GSA’s 2022 Robert W. Kleemeier Award
Congratulation Dr. Zimmerman! The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) — the nation’s largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging — has chosen Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD, FGSA, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the 2022 recipient of the Robert W. Kleemeier Award. This distinguished honor is given annually… Read more »
Psych Services article is subject of Psychiatric New Alert
A new Psych Services article, Rapid and Deferred Help Seeking Among African American Parents of Children With Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties, led by Jennifer Richmond, recent Gillings grad, with co-authors Leslie Adams, recent Gillings grad and Sheps fellow, and Kathleen Thomas, School of Pharmacy, is the subject of a Psychiatric News Alert, which is distributed… Read more »
Donahue Awarded NIH Grant to Study Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support
Katrina Donahue, MD, MPH, and Laura Young, MD, PhD, received a grant from the National Institute of Health to increase uptake of diabetes self-management education. Jacquie Halladay, MD, MPH, will serve as a co-investigator on the project. The study will focus on two factors: provider and diabetes care and education specialist engagement with patients, and patient… Read more »
Eshelman researchers and community partners receive funding to create educational resource on vaping
Dr. Betsy Sleath, director of the Sheps Center’s Child and Adolescent Health Services Program, is leading a group of researchers from Eshelman who are teaming up key western NC community partners and the Dogwood Health Trust to create online education materials about vaping and substance misuse to increase awareness of the growing problem. The newly… Read more »
UNC researchers, the national Family-Run Executive Director Leadership Association and UTA awarded a grant from PCORI to identify outcomes that matter to youth and families using behavioral health services
Kathleen C Thomas, PhD, MPH of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy will serve as co-investigator in a study to identify youth and family priorities for outcomes used in CER research on behavioral health services. A $100K Eugene Washington award from PCORI, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute will allow researchers from the UNC Chapel Hill… Read more »
Sheps researcher Arrianna Planey offers insights on rural hospital closures
North Carolina Health News featured the work of the Sheps Center Rural Health Program Check out the published article on North Carolina Health News website. Excerpt of the article below: “What meaning should be made out of these shared characteristics? “I would not call [these findings] a coincidence,” said Arrianna Planey, a co-author of the Sheps… Read more »
UNC researchers and Robeson County community partners awarded a grant from the UNC Health Foundation for Whole Community Connection to identify parent priorities to support child mental health
December 11, 2021 Kathleen C Thomas, PhD, MPH of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy will lead a study to identify parent priorities and next steps for action to support child mental health in Robeson County. A $45K award from the UNC Health Foundation for Whole Community Connection established with a gift from the… Read more »
UNC researchers awarded $4.3M from PCORI to study strategies to improve health outcomes for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their parents
The PCORI Addressing Health Equity award described below was developed with funding from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute $2K Stakeholder Voucher award program. The Informatics and Data Science (IDSci) Program within the NC TraCS Institute provided access to data from the Carolina Data… Read more »
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