The intervention aims to test whether prolonged nightly fasting will improve cognitive function and increase brain-derived neurotrophic factor in older adults with mild cognitive impairment, and further, to explore how prolonged nightly fasting may potentially improve cardiometabolic risk factors.
This study aims to examine the effect of lifestyle intervention on pro- and anti-inflammatory mediators in 79 obese Latino youth with prediabetes as compared to a usual care control group of 38 obesity- and glycemia-matched Latino youth. Understanding how changes in pro- and anti-inflammatory markers relate to changes in beta-cell function is important to identify specific mechanisms that can be targeted in future studies.
U54 Center Grant Project (PI: Marsiglia): To develop digital in-person stories from KA immigrant mothers about HPV vaccination of their children and examine the feasibility and the preliminary effectiveness of the digital storytelling intervention among 50 KA mothers of unvaccinated boys and girls aged 11-14.
This study aims to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic and the related social distancing measures may have affected sleep patterns, health behaviors, and well-being.
This project aims to determine the professional quality of life, resilience, selfefficacy, and stress of nurses nationally and internationally during the pandemic. Findings will elucidate impacts of the virus on members of this critical work force. Knowledge gained will inform planning by healthcare leadership to promote resilience and self-efficacy among health care workers and also to prevent fatigue, burnout and illness.
This COVID-19 Working Group for Public Health and Social Sciences Research is interested in issues of stigma, fear, discrimination, and backlash in light of COVID-19, as well as social countermeasures and emergency management actions that can be taken to address them. The group’s broad scope includes research interest in Sinophobia, stigma faced by frontline workers and those that have tested positive, compounded by discrimination experienced by those already marginalized, and the role played by culture and social media.
This pilot study will test the expanded SleepWell24, to increase CPAP adherence among stroke survivors with OHS.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Commits $3.1m Grant to Support Groundbreaking Research to Prevent Diabetes in Latino Youth
- February 29, 2016
Dr. Rebecca Lee receives U01 grant from NIH National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
- March 29, 2016
Title: U01 Partnering for PA in Early Childhood: Sustainability via Active Garden Education
Congratulations to CONHI Graduate Student, Tara Perkins!
- April 6, 2016