PRCHN

Curious as to how many Cleveland residents use tobacco products, how many feel safe in their neighborhood, or what Clevelanders think about the future? Be sure to attend the next Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) Seminar Series on Wednesday, July 12, at noon in the fourth ...

The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) will welcome national speaker Don Hedeker for the next monthly seminar series event. Hedeker, professor of biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences of the University of Chicago, will present a talk titled “Approaches ...

Researchers at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) recently had an article published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. Their article was titled “Farmers' Market Use Patterns Among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Recipients With High Access to...

Sue Flocke, associate director of the Prevention Research Center for Health Neighborhoods, gave the keynote address for Tobacco-Related Cancer: Prevention and Care, a day-long program held April 21. The Oregon Prevention Research Center at Oregon Health & Science University hosted the event. Flock...

The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) and its partners will host a morning symposium Wednesday, May 31, to explore equity, environmental influence, current interventions and policy implications for tobacco control in Greater Cleveland. May 31 is World No Tobacco Day as dec...

The next Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) seminar will cover healthy food access intervention. The seminar, titled “Evaluating a Food Environment Natural Experiment Designed to Improve Healthy Food Access & Diet,” will be held Wednesday, May 10, from noon to 1:15 p.m. in...

Kakul Joshi, a REACH strategy coordinator with the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, won a 2017 Medicine, Society and Culture Travel Grant from the Medical Humanities and Social Medicine Initiative. She presented "Produce prescriptions for food insecure patients with hypertensio...

Earlier this year, Eun Lye Lee, a postdoctoral scholar at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, authored an article published in Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. Her article is titled “How Living in the ‘Hood Affects Risky Behaviors Among Latino and Africa...

Andrew Anesetti-Rothermel, GIS manager at the Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at Truth Initiative, will present “What are the Effects of Tobacco Retailer Proximity to Schools?” a the next Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods seminar. This session will be ...

The Safe Routes to School National Partnership and the National Shared Use Task Force named Erika Hood, REACH Community Fellow and active living strategy coordinator at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, one of two Shared Use Ambassadors for spring 2017. The National Shared U...