Manish Kumar, Principal Investigator at the Carolina Population Center at UNC- Chapel Hill, successfully defended his dissertation on December 14, 2020 and earned his Ph.D. in Health Informatics from the Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at UNC-CH. Kumar’s dissertation focused … Continued
Emily Pfaff, Administrative Director of Informatics & Data Management at NC TraCS, successfully passed her doctoral dissertation exam on September 21, 2020 and earned her Ph.D. in Health Informatics from the Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at UNC Chapel Hill. … Continued
To help you get started on your MPS application, we are providing some tips on the required materials. For full details on application requirements, refer to the Graduate School website. Letters of Recommendation. Three letters of recommendation are required, however, you … Continued
Rachel Stemerman, who joined the Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP) PhD cohort in the Fall of 2017, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on September 8, 2020. Stemerman, who is advised by Dr. Rebecca Kitzmiller, presented her dissertation on identifying social determinants of health in electronic … Continued
The Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP) recently celebrated a significant milestone as Terika McCall became the first student to graduate with her Doctor of Philosophy in Health Informatics. CHIP launched its PhD program in the fall of 2016. Just one … Continued
Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP) is actively seeking applicants for the NLM T-15 Fellowship: National Library of Medicine Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Training Grant Fellowship Program. CHIP's training fellowship focuses on Healthcare Informatics and Public Health Informatics with each … Continued
Tool Created to Help Americans Take 4 Steps to Avoid Becoming Patients Chapel Hill, NC April 03, 2020 – A free online mapping tool is now available to help Americans see the reality of COVID-19 in their communities and state. The mapping … Continued
UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) faculty members David Gotz and Yue “Ray” Wang have been awarded over $200,000 in grant funding to develop a system that will allow users to bring unstructured contextual information into structured data … Continued
CHIP PhD Candidate, Terika McCall with advisor Dr. Saif Khairat, recently published paper in JMIR Mental Health- The Acceptability of Text Messaging to Help African American Women Manage Anxiety and Depression: Cross-Sectional Survey Study. Paper Abstract Background: The rates of mental … Continued
CHIP PhD student Ashley Griffin, MSPH was recently awarded a NC TraCS Pilot Grant on her research topic: A Conversational Agent to Support Hypertension Medication Self-Management. Project Description: Self-management of hypertension-related behaviors, such as diet, exercise, and medications, is challenging … Continued