Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods
at Case Western Reserve University
The Healthy Retail Initiative has memos of understanding with 20 corner stores, and these relationships are deepening. Community Health Ambassadors Hank Smith and Delores Collins have hosted outreach events at two “Good Food Here” stores to promote upcoming Chronic Disease Read More …
REACH increases its community engagement capacity with the addition of three Community Health Ambassadors.
PRCHN Associate Director Erika Trapl, PhD, is the Principal Investigator on a one-year, $240,000 Tobacco Disparities Demonstration Project grant from the Ohio Department of Health (ODH). She has become a leading expert on the epidemiology of tobacco use, particularly among youth. One Read More …
The YMCA of Greater Cleveland’s Clevelanders in Motion Health Equity Coalition has been playing a leadership role on behalf of a concept to “reclaim a portion of Cleveland’s overly-wide and under-utilized streets for use by pedestrians, bicyclists and transit riders.” Read More …
The Consortium had four primary objectives:•Use a public comment from HIP-Cuyahoga co-chair Dr. Heidi Gullett in the New England Journal of Medicine to jump start a discussion on the roles various sectors involved with HIP-Cuyahoga can play in addressing structural racism. Provide an Read More …
A diverse group of faculty and staff researchers had the honor of presenting at the recent American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. Enjoy some photos from the conference below or click here for a full list of PRCHN Read More …
The PRCHN is pleased to release Healthy People 2020: Where Do Cuyahoga County Adolescents Stand?, a mid-decade status report documenting progress made locally toward achieving national health goals established for adolescents. The data for the report comes from the Youth Risk Read More …
Co-PIs Drs. Darcy Freedman and Ash Sehgal and the Future of Food in Your Neighborhood Study (foodNEST) team have reached a benchmark goal: they’ve completed recruitment of 520 participants in two cities for the three-year study. The foodNEST looks at Read More …
The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) held its inaugural Research Dissemination Day on September 14, 2016. Titled “Food Access and Food Security among Cleveland Residents,” the morning symposium brought together data from several of the PRCHN’s studies to tell the broader story of the city’s food environment.
Dear PRCHN Friends,First, I want to personally invite each of you to Food Access and Food Security among Cleveland’s Residents on September 14th, from 8:00-11:30 at the Tinkham Veale Center on our campus, where the focus will be Food Access Read More …