• To provide investigators in the Division of Gastroenterology with the sources of clinical information for basic research and clinical studies of inflammatory bowel diseases. • To provide optimal and standardized collection of stool for such studies.

We aim to develop, field-test, and promote improved ways to measure and assess the public health hazards associated with sanitation systems and practices in sub-Saharan Africa, with the overall goal of informing sanitation planning and implementation at community levels. This will involve learning more about the range and distribution of sanitation technologies encountered in two cities of Africa (i.e., Kampala and Lusaka). Learning more about the levels of microbiological hazard in onsite sanitation systems especially septic tanks and other technology-specific lessons can be usefully incorporated in citywide sanitation improvement tools.

Some patients are not able to urinate on their own right after surgery for pelvic organ prolapse so they have to go home with a catheter in their bladders. We want to know if it is safe and effective for them to remove their catheters the day after surgery instead of three days after surgery. If this is effective, they might have lower risk of bladder infection and higher satisfaction after surgery.

The purpose of this research study is to better understand the characteristics and workforce of school-based behavioral health (SBBH) programs across the U.S. in order to identify the resources needed to expand these services.

Belatacept is a drug that helps kidney transplant recipients by preventing the body from rejecting the new organ. We want to compare how well belatacept works compared to the commonly used drug tacrolimus. To do this, we plan to study people who got kidney transplants in the United States from 2011 to 2020. By using two large databases, the United States Renal Data System, and the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, we aim to understand how belatacept is used in real life. We are also interested in comparing how effective and safe is belatacept compared with tacrolimus after one year of administration. We will look at outcomes like how long the transplanted kidney will work, how long will the kidney transplant recipients live, how well your kidneys will work, the risk of organ rejection, and certain side effects to happen after transplant like blood cancer.

This project explores the stories and narratives about how gardening and communing in a shared space (ex: community gardens) can enrich communal care, resistance, and joy.

The purpose of this study is to gather information about how disruptions in school bus services affect children and families.

The purpose of this study is to qualitatively examine how social movements and actors within social movement organizations interact with the press and media as they work to achieve their goals. This study seeks to further examine the relationship between left-leaning social movements in the U.S. South as alternative media outlets and newspapers decline and tension between social movements and actors like the state and elected officials intensify.

The study will evaluate staff experiences of transitioning participants from long term care facilities back into the community through the Money Follows the Person program. Challenges and best practices will be identified in order to inform program improvements.

To explore expression of tolerance for ambiguity and need for definitive conclusion among medical students and to compare these scores across time in medical school.