Social Impact

The economic security study is part of an effort to understand individuals’ experiences with employment and upward mobility in the Cape Fear region. We explore the role personal factors, previous employment experiences, education and training, as well as socioeconomic and external factors, have on economic security and upward mobility.

Cape Fear Inclusive Economy Report - By referring to inclusivity and upward mobility, this report seeks to highlight opportunities and challenges in building a regional economy that is prepared for the future and aligned with the perceptions and promises of America.

Principal Investigator: Dr. Sabrina Cherry

Increasing equitable access to economic benefits produces greater regional prosperity and is central to the growth of a region. This regional analysis investigates demographic shifts, workforce changes, and economic indicators in the Cape Fear area to understand whether current and projected economic growth is equitable across groups (scheduled for Spring 2021 release).

Cape Fear Inclusive Economy Report - By referring to inclusivity and upward mobility, this report seeks to highlight opportunities and challenges in building a regional economy that is prepared for the future and aligned with the perceptions and promises of America.

• Using spatial and temporal modeling to visualize the effects of U.S. state issued stay at home orders on COVID‑19
• Community vulnerability and mobility: What matters most in spatio-temporal modeling of the COVID-19 pandemic?
• COVID-19 in the US, North Carolina, and the Cape Fear Region

Principal Investigator: Dr. Rachel Carroll

• Assessing the health impacts of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations in the Cape Fear Region (report coming soon)

CSI is partnering with Cape Fear Collective and Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance-Coastal Connect Health Information Exchange to analyze regional health data in order to better understand population health determinants and the distribution of these determinants. CSI aims to work within the population health community ecosystem to improve health outcomes.

Healthy NC 2030: In partnership with Cape Fear Collective, CSI is working to establish an accurate and comprehensive snapshot of health, opportunity, and disparity in the Cape Fear Region (scheduled for Fall 2021 release)

The purpose of the Rural Health Research and Innovation Lab is to facilitate community-academic partnership in rural health research and evidence-based practice, innovation, and workforce development that addresses current and future regional system performance and population health goals.

Principal Investigator:

Dr. Stephanie Duea, Ph.D., RN
smithsd@uncw.edu

Co-investigator:

Dr. Kelly B. Laham, DNP, ANP-BC, CNE

Research Mentor/Consultant:

Dr. Barbara Lutz, PhD, RN, CRRN, PHNA-BC, FAHA, FAAN
McNeill Distinguished Professor
UNCW School of Nursing

Projects:

• Regional Rural Health Collaborative Forums
• Rural Mobile Health Clinic
• Feasibility Study to Implement Depression Screening in Mobile Outreach to Migrant Farm Communities
• Mobile Simulation Education and Training in Credentialed Skilled Nursing Facilities/Long Term Care
• Pharmacogenomics Testing in Rural Health
• Farmworker Mental Health
• Exploring COVID-19 Impact on Latinx Communities in Rural North Carolina