To understand if advanced communication training for 4th year medical students improves comfort with having difficult conversations as resident physicians.

Early Check is a research study to check newborns for rare but serious health problems. • Early Check does extra, free tests on the newborn screening blood sample that was already taken in the hospital using a heel prick. The tests allow us to find newborns with these health problems before symptoms start. • The goal of Early Check is to learn about the health problems and look for better treatments to help babies that have them.

This is a research study to develop new ways to measure the well-being of people living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

By collecting large amounts of data, this study aims to describe the pregnancy rate, pregnancy outcomes, health and disease burden of women of reproductive age and their children under 2 years prior to, during, and following pregnancy and to investigate the structural, socio-demographic, and clinical covariates that contribute to adverse outcomes

To evaluate a toolkit to train clinicians how to give feedback to caregivers following an autism diagnosis.

I am researching the potential for hospital's public reporting to influence hospital investments and initiatives to build wealth for Black and Hispanic residents in their community

This is a study evaluating whether the use of an electronic web-based tool containing surveys could support patients and doctors make better treatment decisions together. New patients, 60 years or older, will be randomized to either receive the tool or not. Surveys will be collected from patients about their experience in making treatment decisions to evaluate whether the tool was beneficial.

The Substance Use Prevention, Education, and Research (SUPER) Project aims to reduce adolescent substance use in Durham County by implementing Botvin Life Skills Training with 7th grade students and by providing the Triple P parenting program to parents/caregivers of youth ages 11-16.

This study will examine how, if at all, schools are using the school improvement process to identify and address inequities.

Purpose: To conduct a cluster RCT trial to compare the efficacy of the AD ACP Toolkit (intervention) vs usual care (control) on GOC discussions (primary outcome) in People Living with Dementia (PLwD), and other ACP practices such as preferred surrogate, decisional capacity, and portable ACP orders (secondary outcomes) over 18 months.