The overall goal of the UNC CFAR is to support research of HIV infection carried out by UNC CFAR affiliated investigators and collaborators outside UNC. In order to achieve the goal of providing cutting edge research and testing services, the UNC CFAR will use samples of blood, hair, urine, oral and genital secretions from HIV seropositive and seronegative donors to evaluate, validate and quality control current and future assays.

The purpose of this research study is to collect preliminary data to develop my dissertation examining networks and collaboration among organizations as adaptive strategies that address socio-ecological challenges. You are eligible to take part in a research study because you are currently or have been involved with or are a stakeholder of a nonprofit, non-governmental environmental organization in the (1) Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, (2) Community Garden in a developing partnership with the Miramar Prison Garden in Wellington, New Zealand, (3) Carolinas Collaborative on Climate Health and Equity (C3HE) and their partnerships with Albemarle Regional Health Services (ARHS). You must be 18 or older to volunteer for this study.

The purpose of this research study is to assess and compare patient education on clinical trials delivered through a mobile application and brochure handouts. The goal is to evaluate the effectiveness of the mobile app in educating and engaging individuals with lupus about clinical trials.

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

We intend to study sensations generated by spinal cord stimulation with the goal of using this knowledge to develop electrical interfaces that can restore loss of sensory function after neurological injury or disease.

This study compares two dose strengths of a new epilepsy medicine to placebo for treatment of refractory focal onset epilepsy as measured by the change in 28-day average seizure frequency.

We are surveying families of pediatric hematology/oncology patients to find out their interest in and use of integrative and complementary health practices.

Surveying internal medicine residents to identify factors associated with future career choice and barriers to residents choosing primary care as a career.

i. Patient sitters provide 1:1 supervision to patients at risk of injury to themselves or others. As there are no existing national policies that define sitter responsibility, this responsibility is left to hospitals. Current policies largely utilize sitters to provide patient safety; however, sitters often find themselves in situations which require far more than safety skills, leading to ambiguity in the role. Through my project, I will explore the experiences of current sitters and ultimately use this data to create a more comprehensive training module that reduces the ambiguity of the sitter role.

The goal of this study is to develop new ways of figuring out which children with acute respiratory illnesses (like cough, cold, or flu) would benefit from antibiotic treatment. To do this, we will evaluate different combinations of vital signs, symptoms, results from tests for infections that cause respiratory illness, and measurement of the body's immune response to see which ones best predict the presence of infection that requires antibiotic treatment.