PRCHN

Are you interested in gaining hands-on experience with the collection of survey data? If so, you might be interested in a volunteer opportunity with the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) at Case Western Reserve University. The PRCHN is looking for volunteer survey admini...

Brittany Schuler, assistant professor at Temple University’s School of Social Work, will present a Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) Research Seminar titled “Predicting Childhood Obesity Risk in the Context of Adversity” Sept. 11 from noon to 1:15 p.m. in BioEnterprise Bui...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to participate in a learning journey to increase the shared understanding of racial inequities that impact health, and to discuss strategies to promote a more equitable society. The event, titled Racial Equity Institute Groundwate...

Colleen Walsh, an assistant professor in the School of Health Sciences at Cleveland State University, will present at the next Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods Seminar Series event. Titled “Investigating Public Responses to Racial Health Disparities: Findings from the AmeRicans’...

Place—with its social, economic, demographic and health systems context—is key to framing not only how we understand cancer disparities, but also how we will address them with interventions, outreach and policy. However, existing data sources rarely have sufficient contextual information to allow fo...

Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods Director Elaine Borawski, Associate Director Erika Trapl and affiliated faculty member Darcy Freedman are among the co-authors of a paper published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Their paper was titled “Socioecological ...

The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) was selected for the 2019 Ohio Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Outstanding Contribution Award. This award is issued to a non-member that has shown stellar support for the dietetic profession in providing tools for optimal health and...

Erika Trapl, associate director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) and assistant professor in the Department of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences, shared some results of the PRCHN's food melt research as a guest writer on Boston University's Public Health Pos...

Megan Holmes, associate professor and founding director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, and Laura Voith, assistant professor at the Jack Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, will present the next Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) Research Semi...

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and rates remain stubbornly high among low-income smokers. While low-income smokers attempt to quit, their success rate is lower than those of a higher social economic status. During the next Prevention Research Center for Healt...