Sugg’s five-year research project — “The Geography of Mental Health: Understanding contextual, compositional and external stressors” — will advance understanding of the relationship between geography and mental health illnesses — ranging in severity from depression to suicide. She will use geographic research methods, coupled with public health data, to identify North Carolina locations with populations with elevated rates of adverse mental health illnesses — while also examining how these locations differ across a rural-to-urban spectrum. Members: