Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Dr. Michelle Hernandez In celebration of Hispanic Heritage month, WRAL-TV recently featured UNC’s Dr. Michelle Hernandez—highlighting her work in underserved communities. At UNC Health, Hernandez is breaking down barriers as a pediatric allergist and immunologist. The Puerto Rican native calls the work her purpose. In regards to working in Lee… Read more »
Bianca Allison, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, has been awarded a 2021 Changemakers in Family Planning grant by the Society of Family Planning Research Fund. The aim of the award is to provide dedicated support for awardees to develop their research skills and leadership in the field of family planning… Read more »
Patient and Caregiver Relevant Outcomes iLibrary now available to help design pragmatic clinical trials Laura Hanson, MD, MPH, supported by project manager Kathryn Wessell, MPH and PCRO Core member Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD, created a library to help investigators seeking to develop pragmatic clinical trials in people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. This library… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
International retirement migration is a growing phenomenon that is expected to accelerate with the aging of the baby boomer generation. In the Western hemisphere, migrants particularly favor medium-sized historic, picturesque colonial cities in Latin America. Their impact on these settings is large and complex but has received little systematic study. This phenomenon can stimulate economic… Read more »
Parth Shah (center) with dissertation committee member Macary Marciniak (left) and NRSA fellowship mentor Betsy Sleath (right) AHRQ NRSA Postdoctoral Trainee, Parth Shah, PhD, received the 2018 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in the area of Social Sciences. Dr. Shah was recognized and presented with a plaque at The Graduate School’s Annual Graduate Student Recognition… Read more »
Mark Holmes, PhD Associate professor of health policy and management Director, UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research George Pink, PhD Humana Distinguished Professor of health policy and management How can we improve health and health care in rural America?
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