Research

Databases

Researchers at UNC have extensive experience conducting epidemiologic research with a wide variety of population-level clinical and healthcare utilization databases including:

• Medicare Parts A, B, and D (possibility to link with UNC clinical data)
• Merative Marketscan Research Databases
• Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-Medicare
• United States Renal Data System (USRDS), linked with DaVita EMR data
• National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)
• National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) – Medicare Linked Data
• North Carolina Medicaid, project-specific linkage to UNC electronic medical record (EMR) data
• Carolina Data Warehouse for Health (CDW-H) EMR (possibility to link with Medicare)
• Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (ARIC), Women’s Health Initiative Study (WHI), both linked with Medicare data
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC (2006-2017) data, project-specific linkage to UNC EMR data
• MidSouth Clinical Data Research Network (CDRN) with EMR data from UNC, Duke, Vanderbilt, MUSC
• UNC is a PCORnet site
• UNC Lineberger Center – Cancer Information & Population Health Resource (CIPHR)

UNC provides excellent infrastructure for large, multicenter studies. Prime examples include the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS), funded through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical and Translational Science Awards, and UNC’s Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center, part of the public health school’s biostatistics department which was established in 1971 as the second coordinating center to be funded by the NIH.

Research Tools

• Causal Contrast Spreadsheet Macro
• SAS Macro for Doubly Robust Estimation
• SAS macro for predicting frailty using claims data

UNC Pharmacoepidemiology Publications

To obtain a list of all publications from UNC PE faculty listed on PubMed click here.

Please click on the words in the table below to link to a current PubMed bibliography of the UNC PE faculty publications pertaining to specific data sources, therapeutic areas, study objectives, and methods.

Recent Publications

Names in bold are current students on the pharmacoepidemiology program

A list of publications, both students and faculty in the program for the 2022-2023 academic year can be found here.