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Amy Bush Stevens, vice president of prevention and public health policy at the Health Policy Institute of Ohio (HPIO), will discuss tobacco use in Ohio at the next Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods seminar. She will present “Tobacco use in Ohio: Opportunities for policy, systems ...

Darcy Freedman, associate director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, recently publishing an article about evaluating healthy food incentive programs. Her article, titled “Dissemination of Technology to Evaluate Healthy Food Incentive Programs,” was published in the Americ...

Darcy Freedman, associate director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, won the Paper of the Year award from the American Journal of Health Promotion. Her paper, published in June, is titled “Making Healthy Eating Policy Practice: A Group Randomized Controlled Trial on Chang...

Erika Trapl, associate director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN), won a one-year, $240,000 Tobacco Disparities Demonstration Project grant from the Ohio Department of Health (ODH). The project extends work PRCHN is engaged in as a partner of the Health Improvement...

At the next Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) seminar, Barb Clint of the YMCA of Greater Cleveland and Jacob VanSickle of Bike Cleveland will discuss “Active Transportation as a Health Equity Strategy." This session will be held Wednesday, Feb. 8, from noon to 1:15 p.m. i...

Erika Trapl, associate director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN), authored an article titled “Cigar product modification among high school youth.” The article was published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research. Fellow authors were: Sarah J. Koopman Gonzalez, a resea...

David Ngendahimana, a pre-doctoral fellow at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN), was the lead author for a presentation given at the ninth annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Washingon D.C. His poster presentation was titled “Bridgin...

How do you apply health psychology research to understanding and addressing racial and ethnic disparities in tobacco-related outcomes? Monica Webb Hooper, director of the Office of Cancer Disparities Research at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, will address this topic at the next Prevention Res...

Faculty and partners at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) published an article on the growth and success of the Partners in Education, Evaluation and Research (PEER) program. The program increases the research capacity of nonprofit organizations by pairing a staff mem...

Faculty, researchers and partners at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) recently published an article titled “Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Produce Prescription Program for Pregnant Women” in the Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. Authors for the paper were...