Research

CBH Research Centers

Center for Health Communication and Social Marketing

Mission: Promote innovative, theory- and data-driven communication research to address today's public health challenges through participation in interdisciplinary, collaborative, community-based projects and the training of graduate students in the Health Communication sub-tracks in the Department of Community and Behavioral Health and other health communication students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Department of Communication Studies.

Project Title: Iowa Unintended Pregnancy Project: Radio Serials Dramas (African American and Hispanic)

Project Title: Stopping the Stork: A Social Marketing Campaign to Reduce Unintended Pregnancy (18-30 year old)

Project Title: 2nd Semester & not 3rd Trimester: A Social Marketing Campaign to Reduce Unintended Pregnancy among Iowa College Students

Center Director, P.I.:  Shelly Campo, Ph.D.

Prevention Research Center for Rural Health (PRC)

Mission: Work with our community partnerships, in order to address rural health issues using community-based participatory research principals.

Project Title: Improving the Health of Rural Communities in Iowa and the Midwest through Nutrition and Exercise

Funding Agency: CDC
Center Director, P.I.: Edith Parker, DrPH

Prairielands Addiction Technology Transfer Center (PATTC)

Mission: Disseminate evidence-based practice in substance abuse and problem gambling, thereby bridging the gap between science and service.  Provide technical assistance, training, and systems change assistance throughout the five-state region.  Dissemination efforts address a wide variety of issues and aspects of addiction.  These include issues specific to substance abuse, culturally specific populations, problem gambling, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender issues, clinical supervision, concerns in rural, frontier, and tribal treatment populations, co-occurring disorders, and women and their children.

Funding Agency: Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

Center Director, P.I.: Anne Helene Skinstad, Ph.D.

Funded Projects with CBH PI's

Project Title: Perceived Social Support and Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety Following Athletic Injury in Collegiate Athletes
Funding Agency: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Principal Investigator: Jingzhen Yang, M.P.H., Ph.D.

Project Title: Sexual Violence Prevention
Funding Agency: IDPH
Principal Investigator: Jingzhen Yang, MPH, Ph.D.

Project Title: Climatic Extremes, Mining, and Mycobacerium Ulcerans: A Coupled Approach
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Principal Investigator: Edith Parker, Dr.P.H.

Project Title: Risk Communication for Environmental Exposure
Funding Agency: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Principal Investigator: Edith Parker, Dr.P.H.

Project Title: A Community Based Participatory Research Intervention for Childhood Asthma Using Air Filters and Air Conditioners
Funding Agency: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Principal Investigator: Edith Parker, Dr.P.H.

Project Title: Iowa Initiative to Reduce Unintended Pregnancies Project: Community Pharmacy (U3P)
Principal Investigator: Mary Aquilino, MSN, PhD, FNP

Project Title: Faith in Action Research Alliance: A Faith & Community Based Approach to Reduce Diabetes Health Disparities Among Pacific Islanders
Funding Agency: NIH
Principal Investigator: Nia Aitaoto, MS, MPH