Through semi-structured interviews with Arab entrepreneurs and business owners, this project considers questions of immigration, identity, and local processes of action and decision making within the context of the food industry and entrepreneurship. The food industry was chosen as food is a significant symbol for identity, faith, and culture. There is also significant diversity of Arab-owned businesses in the food industry.
This study will help us learn more about how strongly our Triple P professional networks, both individual and organizational, in North Carolina and South Carolina are connected. We'll use this information to help create or sustain network connections to promote effective implementation of the Triple P Positive Parenting Program.
In order to improve the biomedical research environment at UNC-Chapel Hill, we are developing new training opportunities and evaluating how well they work
I will conduct focus groups with Venezuelan migrants in Colombia to see the effects of gender on migrants' access to state services like public schools and the police.
I want to document a local language called Rusitène, spoken alongside Italian in Southern Italy but different from it. This language has under 2000 speakers and is at risk of disappearing, and with it, the associated culture and local knowledge.
We are studying the ways that counties and municipalities are making decisions about how to use the opioid settlement funding.
We are trying to understand how agricultural workers in Southeastern North Carolina feel about managing their diabetes. We hope to help participants feel more comfortable in understanding their diabetes and how to better control their blood sugar.
You are being asked to participate in this study because you have an appointment at UNC Urology, and you have been diagnosed with prostate cancer. The purpose of this research study is to learn how either cryosurgery or prostatectomy procedures change the inflammatory response within the body. To do this, we will draw blood and analyze it for signs of inflammation before and after your standard of care procedure.
To identify the skills needed to effectively manage a medical laboratory in today's healthcare system and to assess the gap in management training in new laboratory leaders.
The purpose of this study is to explore areas of discrimination experienced by our community of providers as well as determining areas of implicit bias that may affect how we practice medicine. By confronting and understanding these issues we can better understand our American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS) community and improve the care we provide all women with pelvic floor disorders.