The central aim of this UNC-Gillings Practicum opportunity is to offer a UNC-Gillings MPH student the opportunity to contribute to developing and improving our community-engaged, clinic-based and research project whose goal is to better understand the complex issues surrounding prevention, education, diagnosis, treatment and barriers to care for children and adults living with sickle cell disease in Kalangala, Uganda.

The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Education is interested in conducting an educational research study with parents and their 4-5-year-old children. The broad goals of the project are to better understand how parents and children interact while reading together and engaging with age-appropriate science-related toys. This study will help us better understand how children learn and help promote positive academic outcomes.

We want to know what types of clinical research training are most useful to get a job in clinical research and to be promoted. We also want to know if people think a new tool called digital badges could be a better way to get training.

This study aims to investigate the use of linguistic landscape (LL) as a tool to teach Vietnamese language while drawing students' attention to the sociolinguistic aspects such as cultural authenticity, identity, language ideologies and variation.

This study will help us learn how educators use WorkTogetherNC Action Plans with students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). An Action Plan is an online planning tool for setting goals for adult life in areas such as employment, continuing education, and community living.

This project has the goal to study the use of mindfulness practices (e.g., body scans, guided meditation) in high school physical education.

This study will evaluate the safety profile of the investigational gene therapy, NGN-401, in female children with typical Rett syndrome.

Obesity is a significant public health concern that has been associated with a range of dangerous pregnancy outcomes. However, the lived experiences and perspectives of obese individuals regarding these outcomes are underexplored. Understanding how patients feel the relationship between obesity and their pregnancy experiences can provide valuable insights for healthcare providers, inform patient education, and improve prenatal care strategies.

To test the safety of the trial drug, MK-8527 compared to emtricitabine/tenofovir (FTC/TDF) and to see how well MK-8527 works to reduce the chance of getting HIV-1 infection compared to FTC/TDF.

The purpose of this study is to assess how the use of community health-workers for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing influences the number of women living with HIV who get screened for cervical cancer.