Lifestyle Behaviors and Health
Focuses on health related behaviors that are crucial to maintaining health, preventing disease, and optimizing well-being along the lifespan. Lifestyle behaviors play a strong role in all of the leading causes of death in the United States. The College has particular expertise in diet/nutrition, physical activity, smoking cessation, and mental health. College researchers address diseases include obesity and related metabolic conditions, cancer prevention, women health, respiratory/lung disease, and cardiovascular disease. Health Informatics, Biostatistics, and Evaluation Core. Provides expertise in managing large datasets; provides expertise in the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine (including EMRs); assists with study design, methodology, and analysis; provides technical support for research IT systems, and evaluation for state, city and county programs.
Global and Border Health
Addresses the health of populations and transcends the perspectives and concerns of individual nations. Health problems that transcend national borders or have a global political and economic impact are emphasized. This area of research and practice places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in people worldwide and addresses worldwide improvement of health, reduction of disparities, and protection against global threats that disregard national borders. The College has particular expertise in border and bi-national health and infectious disease.
Health Outcomes and Health Care Services Research
This area develops practical solutions for the nation and Arizona’s health system to improve outcomes, enhance access to quality health care, reduce health inequities, assess cost effectiveness and assure accountability. Serves as a timely, trusted data analysis and policy source for health care systems, the public, and policy makers.
Advancing Health Equity for Diverse Populations
Addresses the disproportionate burden of preventable disease, death and disability of minority populations and promotes health equity through scientific excellence. Requires a strong engagement of community partners for translational, applied, and dissemination research. Environmental Health and Public Safety. This area provides expertise in the areas of human exposure science and risk assessment of chemical, biological and physical hazards. It builds on the internationally recognized work in multimedia, multi-pathway exposure assessment and modeling for communities and human populations to reduce disease and promote health and safety.