Center for Health Promotion Research

The goal of the Center is to provide a common place for faculty, health educators, community partners, and students to come together to share and develop ideas that will improve the health of our community, with a particular focus on lifestyle changes.

The mission of the Center for Health Promotion Research is to develop, evaluate, and disseminate health promotion and disease prevention programs in diverse settings and populations, with an emphasis on community-based research and evaluation. In addition, training and education is a critical component of this mission, working to develop behavioral scientists who specialize in health behavior and health promotion and who understand the social and environmental context in which healthy behaviors are developed and maintained.

HIGHLIGHTS

JUST RELEASED:

June 2008 - The Ohio Tobacco Research and Evaluation Center (OTREC) recently released the final program evaluation report for the 2007 Community Grants Program of the former Ohio Tobacco Prevention Foundation, now under Healthy Ohio of the Ohio Department of Health. The report covers the 4 programmatic goal areas and the 17 strategies of the program carried out by 50 funded grantees across the state. OTREC also released a supplement to the original Ohio Tobacco Key Indicators Report. Click here to download the full reports.

The goal of the Center is to provide a common place for faculty, health educators, community partners, and students to come together to share and develop ideas that will improve the health of our community, with a particular focus on lifestyle changes.