The purpose of our study is to increase our understanding of how hearing affects balance performance in older adults. This will help us know whether older adults with balance concerns should be screened for hearing loss and whether use of hearing aids may be important for improving balance and preventing falls in older adults with hearing loss.

The purpose of this study is to understand the key stakeholder perspectives on the utilization of CMS APMs to advance health equity. In theory, the APM should function as a vehicle to improve health equity, since it properly aligns payment to health. However, while APMs have been associated with a degree of cost-efficiency, their impact on health-and health equity-remain uncertain. My research will help identify the barriers that prevent healthcare organizations from utilizing CMS APMs to advance health equity. While there are many initiatives underway that are creating, applying, and testing frameworks to improve health equity and to improve CMS APM performance, they not been studied together.

The purpose of this study is to understand how governments with open data initiatives and open data intermediaries engage with the communities they serve. This study also aims to explore how individual community members and nonprofit organizations use or do not use open source data resources to support their missions.

The purpose of this study is to gain an understanding of the relationship between social anxiety and individuals with long-term physical disabilities as well as the connection between perceived social status, social support, depression and this same group. Lower perceived social status, as well as the other factors, have been shown to contribute to a larger decline in health over time.

To provide feedback to the developers of a dashboard displaying timely, aggregated information about chronic disease and mental health conditions in North Carolina

The purpose of this project is to understand factors that contribute to/facilitate trustworthiness so that we can address those concerns in the COVID-19 communication materials we share. We will use concept mapping, which is a mixed method research approach for engaging voices and organizing ideas of a group of people to help understand complex concepts. We will take what we learn from Concept Mapping and use it to tailor NIH materials to be culturally responsive to their respective communities.

Assessing how aspects of culture, activism, and mental health and well-being are linked in high school students

To compare the effect of different types of nail polish on bacterial counts before and after surgical scrubbing.

This study seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of work support services which are offered to residents of public housing in Charlotte, North Carolina. Through data analysis and interview collection, this study hopes to examine how cities can best combat unemployment brought on by the pandemic among public housing residents.

The purpose of this research study is to understand how to better support learning while searching online. In this study, participants will be asked to: complete a search task online to learn about a particular topic, respond to questionnaires that ask about your experience before and after the search task, and complete an assessment immediately after the search task and one week later about the search task topic.