Report summary

The 2024-2026 picture for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Epidemiology is a 55-PI network with 77 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (39% of slots across 44 PIs; 44 labels), Infectious Diseases as the leading subfield (11% of slots across 16 PIs; 16 labels), and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions as the leading topic (6% of slots across 9 PIs; 9 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The leading PI names are Anna Kucharska‐Newton (27.9 weighted works; Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life). The clearest collaboration lines are Brian W. Pence and Shabbar I. Ranapurwala (22 shared works, weight 9.4). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 23.2, around Oncology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Economics and Econometrics, led by Hazel B. Nichols, Kelly R. Evenson, Melissa A. Troester.