Resources

 Resources for our community of researchers and practitioners working to improve health and reduce disparities throughout Northern California and the Central Valley

DREAMS-CDTR provides resources for our community of researchers and practitioners working to improve health and reduce disparities throughout Northern California and the Central Valley.

These resources are primarily methodological in nature, including biostatistical consulting and a survey and clinical instrument library.  Access to recordings of an ongoing seminar series that provides insight into various aspects of the research, practice and policy of reducing diabetes disparities is available here.

Upcoming and Recent Seminars

MEETING PRESENTER TOPIC

January 22, 2024

Sarah Haynes

Designing and testing an intervention to improve transitions from pediatric to adult care for adolescents with type 1 diabetes

March 18, 2024

Tainayah Thomas

TBD

April 15, 2024

Wagahta Semere

TBD

May 20, 2024

Lauren Au

TBD

July 15, 2024

Andrea Pedroza Tobias

TBD

September 16, 2024

Chi Chu

TBD

October 21, 2024

Julie Schmittdiel

TBD

Online methodological resources for members

Data/Metrics Resources for Diabetes Equity Research

The Geriatrics Research Instrument Library (GRIL) is a newly established website that provides a user-friendly resource to guide researchers in selecting instruments to assess and measure clinical outcomes relevant to older adults across a full range of domains. GRIL allows users to easily search, compare, and select research instruments based on their description, copyright information, completion time, available translations, and more.

GRIL currently contains over 175 instruments across 18 geriatric domains: Anxiety, Caregiver Burden, Cognition/Dementia, Delirium, Depression, Frailty, General Health Status/Quality of Life, Health Behaviors, Hearing, Medical Comorbidity, Medication Adherence, Pain, Physical Activity/Performance, Physical Disability, Resilience, Sleep, Social Support, and Vision.

GRIL was developed in collaboration with the AGING InitiativeWake Forest University, and Yale Pepper Center.

Biostatistical Consulting Services

DREAMS-CDTR is pleased to offer its members biostatistical consulting services by Tanushree Banerjee, PhD, M.Phil., Associate Professional Researcher at UCSF and lead biostatistician for the CDC-funded Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) surveillance system and other federal agency funded CKD studies in the United States. Dr. Banerjee's research focuses on statistical methods for epidemiologic studies, survival analysis, nutrition-related studies, behavioral outcomes and health measures, and quantitative methods. Dr. Banerjee has co-authored over 40 papers on nutritional risk factors, quality of life measures, screening tool for patients in the setting of pediatric HIV infection and CKD.