About two in five people who are undergoing a kidney biopsy have diabetes. Diabetes is a common finding in people with kidney disease, but little is known about the specific ways in which diabetes affects kidney function. The purpose of this study is to gather two groups of patients with diabetes who undergo a kidney biopsy in order to create a source of information with genetic, blood, and urine samples available, by which researchers can study how diabetes affects kidney function.

To understand the reasons for communication difficulties in surgical clinic patients when surgeons where covered masks.

To evaluate the impact on learning patient-centered care in the context of trauma assessments using a virtual reality educational compared to a traditional powerpoint tool.

This research examines how alternative food networks (AFNs) in Turkey enact autonomy by connecting various stakeholders, including small-scale producers, cooperatives, and consumers across the country, under a solidarity-based organization. Successful data collection will enable the researcher to obtain a deep understanding of the AFNs - specifically how they challenge the gendered production relations, maintain fair production and distribution chains, and finally, keep solidarity as the core principle of the network.

To evaluate the impact of environmental exposures during pregnancy on women's cardio-metabolic health in the years following the pregnancy.

This study is partnering with communities to identify the best ways to provide COVID-19 testing and vaccines to people who have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. This includes communities of color, essential workers, immigrants and migrants, people in rural areas, and people with chronic diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure. We want to train community outreach workers and peer recruiters from community and faith-based organizations to help reach these underserved populations with COVID-19 testing and COVID-19 vaccines - a strategy known as "community-based task shifting." Thus, we will be conducting focus groups and theater testing sessions and questionnaires with patients who have received COVID-19 health services and focus groups and interviews with key stakeholders and theater testing sessions and questionnaires with individuals who work in community outreach or peer health education organizations for COVID-19 health services.

The purpose of this study is to compare two different endoscopic techniques that are used to help patients feel better when they have a blockage from cancer in their stomach or first part of the small intestines.

Mentorship for medical students applying to competitive residencies such as Otolaryngology is vital for their success in matching into the field. Despite medical student advising being important in Otolaryngology, there is almost no research looking into the effectiveness of the strategies Otolaryngology departments utilize in order to mentor and successful match students. The purpose of this study is to evaluate over the last 10 years how UNC medical students who applied into Otolaryngology feel about the advising process they received.

The purpose of this study is to better understand researchers' and stakeholder partners' experiences working on stakeholder-engaged health-related research projects during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also hope to identify best practices, challenges, strategies, and desired resources related to working on stakeholder-engaged health-related research projects during COVID-19 and other health emergencies

The objective of the registry is to create a cohort of patients with NMOSD. This registry will be used for future research, as well as improvements to the diagnosis, treatment, and understanding of NMOSD.