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Four Case Western Reserve University researchers wrote a paper on their work on cigarillo use among young people. The paper, titled “A comparison of methods to measure daily cigarillo consumption among adolescents and young adults,” was published in Tobacco Control. The four researchers…

The next Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) seminar will focus on digital interventions and African-American tobacco smokers. Monica Webb Hooper, director of the Office of Cancer Disparities Research at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, will present “Digital…

The next Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) Seminar Series event will focus on the effects of neighborhood context on child maltreatment. Jim Spilsbury, associate professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, will present “Neighbors,…

The next Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) Seminar Series event will focus on spatial epidemiology and child health. Jacqueline Curtis, co-director of the GIS | Health & Hazards Lab and associate professor in the Department of Geography at Kent State University, will…

Briana McIntosh, community health engagement coordinator for the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, recently was part of a presentation at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting. The presentation highlighted the Health Improvement Partnership-Cuyahoga consortium…

Erika Trapl, associate director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhood (PRCHN) and associate professor of population and quantitative health sciences, and Anna Thornton Matos, REACH project manager at PRCHN, recently authored an article for Preventing Chronic Disease, a journal…

What are the mental health comorbidities and protective factors for sexual and gender minority youth in foster care? Dana Prince, assistant professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, will investigate this question in the next installment of the Prevention…

Elaine Borawski, director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods and the Angela Bowen Williamson Professor of Community Nutrition, will present “Stakeholder Engagement and Team Science Approaches to Advance Research Translation through the Cleveland Clinical and Translational…

The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) Seminar Series will return from its summer hiatus Wednesday, Sept. 12, from noon to 1:15 p.m. In the BioEnterprise Building, Room B-03. Darcy Freedman, associate director of PRCHN, will present “Integrating Systems Science into…

Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods Associate Director Darcy Freedman was quoted in a press release from Sen. Sherrod Brown's office. The release discussed the U.S. Department of Agriculture's $2.2 million funding award to Produce Perks Midwest of Ohio for the administration of the…