AHRQ NRSA Seminar: How to move from problems highlighted by indices to impactful interventions
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-funded T32 training program house at the Sheps Center holds a weekly seminar during the semester that is open to the campus community. Fellows present their works in progress for feedback as well as hear presentations from guest speakers.
The theme this semester is ‘Using demographic data to ensure equity and data quality.’ This week Dr. Kathleen Thomas will present on how to move from problems highlighted by indices to impactful interventions.
Kathleen C Thomas, PhD is the Vice Chair of Research and Graduate Studies in the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy within the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Senior Fellow at the UNC Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research and Adjunct Associate Professor in Health Policy and Management, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is a behavioral economist and mental health services researcher whose work focuses on three areas: 1) patient self-efficacy interventions, 2) health insurance policy, and 3) disparities in access to care. She conducts patient-engaged work with multidisciplinary research teams and creative data compilation to accomplish scientific breakthroughs. The combined learning in these three areas is synergistic, with the goal to improve access and quality of mental health services. You can read more about her on-going research here.
This is a hybrid event (in-person and online).