PRCHN

Building Capacity for Obesity Prevention (BCOP) is a collaborative study between researchers at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) and public health and community practitioners working with the SNAP-Ed program at The Ohio State University (OSU) and the Creating Healthy ...

The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) Seminar Series continues Wednesday, Feb. 14, from noon to 1:15 p.m. in the ground-floor conference room of the BioEnterprise Building. Elaine Borawski, director of PRCHN, will present “Findings of Three-Year IMPACT Behavioral Interven...

In the past few months, three articles and a book have been published based on the work of researchers at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) at Case Western Reserve University. “Food melt in consumer food environments in low-income urban neighborhoods” A group of six re...

The next Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) Seminar Series event will feature an exploration of the rising use of cigarillos. Titled “Patterns of use and beliefs among adolescents and young adults who smoke cigarillos,” this presentation highlights findings from an ongoing...

Several researchers at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) recently gave presentations on their work. Sarah Drewes-Jones and Elaine Borawski Sarah Drewes-Jones, IMPACT core manager, and Elaine Borawski, PRCHN director and principal investigator, presented “Environmental ...

Laura Samuel Although it is known that low-income individuals may have poorer health than their wealthier peers, it is unknown what programs and policies can improve their health outcomes. At the next Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) seminar, Laura Samuel of Johns Hopkin...

Cuyahoga County's 2015 infant mortality rate of 10.5 deaths per 1,000 live births was almost double the national rate. Causes and solutions to the local high rate of infant mortality are multifaceted and complex. The next Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) seminar will fea...

Several members of Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN), a Case Western Reserve University affiliated organization, and Jarrod Dalton, assistant professor of medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, had their work recently published. PRCHN researchers who wer...

FreshLink is the core research of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN). In 2017, FreshLink implemented and evaluated the FreshLink Ambassador intervention, in which nine community leaders trained to serve as ambassadors at...

The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) Monthly Seminar Series will resume after its summer hiatus Wednesday, Sept. 13, with a talk from noon to 1:15 p.m. in the BioEnterprise Building ground-floor conference room. Sue Flocke, assistant director of PRCHN, and the eReferral ...