The purpose of this research study is to analyze the national health policy for migrant workers during the Covid-19 pandemic in two different countries, Singapore and the United States, to systematically assess the effect that national health policy for migrants had on health system resilience. This study will provide a new perspective by cross-analyzing two different nation's migrant health protection policies and draw some thematic comparisons through these case studies.
To review the methods used in collecting mortality data in North Carolina during the COVID-19 pandemic, to understand why the ethnicity data had missing values and how that can be improved upon.
This study intends to examine how Black, queer, and disabled individuals navigate risk assessments in a "post-pandemic" era and how this may impact their interpersonal relationships and trust in the authority and credibility of the CDC.
We are evaluating whether a virtual coaching COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy intervention outperforms a basic COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy training. This will help us decide which method of training is most effective in a rural community pharmacy setting.
The purpose of this study is to shed a clearer light on the diverse ways in which religion and politics interact in North Carolina. How do churchgoers think about their religious beliefs and how they relate these to political issues? How do they navigate the issues of our time, and how do they perceive their local church communities dealing with the issues of our time?
The goal of the study is to understand how the increased availability of telehealth related to the COVID-19 pandemic affected staffing for behavioral health services in critical access hospitals.
Our UNC-CH School of Social Work (SSW) team aims to investigate how the COVID-19 crisis has impacted intimate partner violence (IPV), sexual violence and assault (SVA), and human trafficking (HT) services; and develop and refine guidelines for adapting IPV, SVA, and HT services in response to COVID-19 and other public health emergencies. To address these aims, we will: (1) conduct a quantitative survey of North Carolina (NC) violence agencies, (2) conduct focus groups and interviews with practice experts in NC and nationally, and (3) conduct feedback sessions with service providers and practice experts.
We are interested in learning more about what concerns and challenges are being experienced by people with eating disorders during the COVID19 pandemic. We hope that answers to our survey questions will help provide information that can benefit people with eating disorders and the clinicians that provide treatment to them.
Study purpose is to determine proportion of pregnant women who have no symptoms but are COVID-19 positive
The purpose of this research study is to understand if convalescent plasma is a potential therapy and to understand the immune response to COVID-19 infection. Understanding the immune system's response after infection will help to inform vaccine design and the potential role of antibodies as therapeutics in the setting of COVID-19 infection and disease.