How can we increase screening for Gonorrhea and Chlamydia in Adolescents? Sheps Center’s National Research Service Award (NRSA) training fellow Bianca Allison, MD, MPH, along with UNC collaborators Elizabeth Walters, DNP, CPNP-PC, RN (School of Nursing), Benjamin Butler, MSN, RN, CPN (Primary Care Clinic), and Martha Perry, MD, (General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine). In… Read more »
About the North Carolina Registry for Brain Health The Program on Aging Disability and Long-Term Care works with the North Carolina Consortium for Brain Health in Aging to improve awareness of resources available to help people with memory disorders. The NC Registry for Brain Health is the first registry of its kind in the state… Read more »
A paper featuring the work of Sheps researchers, Marisa Domino, PhD and Joseph Morrissey, PhD, has won the 2021 Willard Manning Award in Mental Health Policy and Economics Research. The paper, “Putting Providers At-Risk through Capitation or Shared Savings: How Strong are Incentives for Upcoding and Treatment Changes?”, was published in the Journal of Mental… Read more »
UNC’s Sheps Center and Duke University’s Margolis Center for Health Policy released a brief recently estimating that if COVID trends continue, hospitals will be out of beds by January. This is part of a series of modeling impact briefs the team of researchers has been writing since April 2020. Several local media outlets have been… Read more »
Dr. Laura Hanson, UNC Professor Geriatric Medicine and Medical Director of Palliative Care has been awarded a new $4.1 million dollar grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA).
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Health Disparities: Healthcare Delivery in the Age of COVID-19 This interdisciplinary Seminar will hold intensive and collaborative sessions focused on health outcome and health delivery problems resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Our main research topic is health disparities in healthcare delivery and how the COVID-19 pandemic shapes systems and impacts resources, including… Read more »
Join us in congratulating Dr. Crystal Wiley Cené, MD, MPH, FAHA, with her promotion by UNC Health as the organization’s first System Executive Director for Health Equity. In this new role, Dr. Cené will lead a multidisciplinary and collaborative effort to plan, implement, and evaluate science-based strategies and interventions to help address the structures, policies,… Read more »
Faculty at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have entered into a $2.5 million contract for the current year with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS). The School will serve as the official evaluation center for the state’s landmark Medicaid transformation — a partnership that will have… Read more »
In an effort to increase the availability of treatments for opioid use in the United States, health care leaders and policymakers have worked to expand the role of primary care providers in administering therapy for opioid use disorder (OUD) – a strategy that appears to be effective according to a new study from researchers at… Read more »
CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina (June 19, 2020) – The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, a leading health services research group based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has published a paper in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open evaluating the effectiveness of its Mouth Care… Read more »
Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, with support from Arnold Ventures, have just published a white paper titled “Prescription Opioid Use and Medications to Treat Opioid Use Disorder in North Carolina Medicaid: 2013-2018”. A new analysis finds that while progress is being made in North Carolina’s opioid epidemic,… Read more »
Crystal Wiley Cené, MD, MPH, FAHA is the Director of the Program on Health Disparities at the Sheps Center. She is a health services researcher and implementation scientist with research expertise and passion for patient- and family-centered care. Her R01 proposal, entitled, “Implementation and Evaluation of Patient Priorities Care-North Carolina for Older… Read more »
Dunc Williams Jr., former pre-doctoral fellow in the AHRQ NRSA Health Service Research Fellowship, and Dr. George Pink, Senior Research Fellow in the Rural Health Research Program, conducted a recent study that describes the number and geographic distribution of 380 rural hospital mergers from 2005 through 2016. To further discuss the impact of hospital mergers… Read more »
State Benchmarking, Employment Outcomes, and Implications for People with Disabilities, lead author Kathleen Thomas, was selected at AcademyHealth 2018 to be featured in the first ever “Best of IG” session at the 2018 Annual Research Meeting. These were presented at the Interest Group Pre-Conference Meeting. You can read the abstract at this link: https://academyhealth.confex.com/academyhealth/2018ig/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25473
Among the many tick bite-related diseases that exist in North Carolina, one of the most feared is Lyme Disease, a condition that often begins with a growing, target-shaped rash surrounding the site of a tick bite. What many people don’t realize is that this rash, called erythema migrans, is rarely due to Lyme disease in this… Read more »
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