The study is testing a new medication for PH-COPD. The hope is this drug improves patient's overall health outcomes.

Vietnamese Americans in North Carolina have vibrant diversity in origin stories - in pursuit of political freedom (Dang 2008), access to higher quality education (Ngo 2007), and religious freedom (Phan 2023) among many others. As such, the purpose of the study is to identify unique immigration stories from the Vietnamese American diaspora in North Carolina. The discussions of food will be utilized to investigate personal immigration stories; ultimately, the study will observe the generational effects of immigration and the impact of food on their relationship with their community.

This study hopes to identify barriers to care for patients with interstitial lung disease by surveying patient experiences with symptoms, diagnosis, ongoing treatment of their lung disease.

This project is about the state's role in the environmental management of fishery and conservation. Environmental management of conservation provides a lens to understand how the state and policies influence its people. This project examines how Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora regulations on species of Corallium reshape the livelihoods and identity of Taiwan and its coral fishery sectors. This research will analyze legal documents and news report and interview fishermen, coral jewelry artisans, and fisheries officials.

This study will illustrate how place is created for older adults through connections among aging, environment, and occupation. I will use a narrative approach to examine how community-based organizational leaders relate stories of anticipated meaningful relationships among aging, environment, and occupation in a community-based Intergenerational Center for Arts and Wellness. Additionally, I will explore how older adults narrate their meaningful occupational engagement among these environmental contexts. Overall, I will assess the connections between community-based organizational leaders' related stories of how aging, environment, and occupation would be situated and older adults' narrated accounts of their occupational engagement among the Center's environmental contexts.

The purpose of this study is to understand how the graduate academic environment at UNC-Chapel Hill impacts mental health from the perspective of Black men in graduate degree programs. Participants in this study will be asked to participate in a semi-structured interview that will be virtual. This interview will last about 1 hour. Participants will be guided through prompts to bring out their views and experiences around graduate school and mental health. The insights gained from this study may inform a larger project on graduate student well-being and help develop future initiatives to support the health of Black men pursuing graduate degrees.

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.

The purpose of this study is to test the urine of infants who have a positive new born screening for Cystic Fibrosis (CF) for the presence of specific chemicals.

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.

We are studying the ways that counties and municipalities are making decisions about how to use the opioid settlement funding.