Alliance Collaborators

New Education and Research Program at the UPRCCC!

The University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center (UPRCCC) is proud to announce its second NIH-sponsored cancer training program, the Research Education Program on Microbes, Infections, and Cancer (REPMIC), funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) with a grant of $1,853,572. This program is designed to train young Puerto Rican researchers in topics…

Strengthening Community Engagement and Support Through Capacity Building in Public Health

 The Puerto Rico Community Engagement Alliance (PR-CEAL), in collaboration with Castañer General Hospital, Inc. (CGH), has enhanced public health preparedness in rural areas of Castañer-Lares, Jayuya, Adjuntas, and Maricao. From October 2023 to June 2024, PR-CEAL impacted 150 participants through initiatives in clinical research, first responder support, and public health policy education. Capacity Building for…

Hospitales HIMA • San Pablo Recognizes Clinical Research Coordinator for 25 Years of Dedication in Puerto Rico’s Healthcare

Hospitales HIMA•San Pablo, collaborating institution of The Alliance, acknowledges its Clinical Research Coordinator Ms. Migdalia Arce-Calderón for her 25-years career in clinical research, as we celebrate Clinical Trial Month in May 2023. Born in The Bronx, NYC, Migdalia started her professional life as Assistant Administrator at a multiple-apartments building complex for 13 years. This experience…

Annual Convention of Health Center Leaders

“Juntos por la equidad y la acción social” August 18-20, 2022 Practice-Based Research Network Leaders participated in the “Centro de Salud de la Asociacion de salud Primaria de Puerto Rico” Annual Convention.     Drs. Enid García and Carlamarie Noboa were part of the panel ” Integrando la investigación clínica en ruta hacia la transformación…

New collaboration between the Alliance and San Juan Bautista School of Medicine

New Collaboration!

The Alliance Leadership is very pleased to announce a new collaboration with the San Juan Bautista School of Medicine (SJBSM). We are so excited about this collaboration that we have been working on for a while and was finally made official last June. From now on, we will share information, facilities, and resources to support the SJBSM faculty in the…

photo of Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, PhD

Uso de modelos multiniveles para atender la heterogeneidad entre estudios

En este seminario se presentará la metodología de las revisiones sistemáticas, el meta análisis, los modelos multiniveles, la meta regresión y la meta regresión multinivel. Conferenciante: Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, PhD Profesor en el Departmento de Métodos de Investigación en Salud, Universidad de McMaster, Canada. Jueves, 17 de junio de 2021 11:00 a.m. — 12:00 p.m. (hora…

CALL for ABSTRACT: 2021 Alliance Scientific Day: Multidisciplinary Research Responses to COVID 19: Challenges and Outcomes

An online event on: May 5, 2021, 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM Submissions Instructions: Abstracts should be submitted in Spanish or English and will be accepted by electronic submission only. It is the author’s responsibility to follow the poster guidelines and instructions. It is a requirement for the author or co-author(s), to present their research…

ALLIANCE/HiREC Small Grant Award 2021 ($5,000)

The Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) Core of the Hispanic Alliance for Clinical and Translational Research (ALLIANCE), in collaboration with Hispanics in Research Capability (HiREC) program at the University of Puerto Rico, is announcing a funding opportunity for small grants to leverage analysis of pre-existing large databases in Health Disparities and prevalent disease and…