The purpose of this study is to create new ways to prevent heart disease that help people, specifically African-Americans, access resources to live a healthy life using a "whole person" approach to cardiovascular disease and social needs, especially in high-need communities.

To enhance community organizations knowledge of the research world

The purpose of this study is to collect feedback from individuals who volunteered with the Cooking Matters for Kids program with No Kid Hungry NC while they were college students. The online survey questionnaire asks about motivations for volunteering, impacts of volunteering, and satisfaction/feedback on training resources and the volunteer experience. The results of this study can help improve the volunteer experience for future college student volunteers.

To understand how people act towards those who hold different beliefs than them.

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.

We are using a new digital software in our course, and we want to see student preferences of the software versus conventional teaching methods. An online survey for students will be given.

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 examine the differences in diabetic health when comparing two different interventions (medically tailored meals and food debit cards).

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.

We are studying how exposure to a natural disaster, the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, affects population health over time. For fifteen years we have been interviewing a group of people who were part of a government survey before the tsunami, in 2004. Our goal is to understand the evolution of well-being after a disaster and how government and private assistance programs affect people.