• Read more about Understanding the 24-Hour Activity Cycle in Latino Youth at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes

The purpose of this study is to examine wake time activities (physical activity and sedentary behaviors) and sleep and the association among these behaviors with diabetes risk in obese Latino adolescents and young adults. This study will also use an integrated mixed methods approach to combine quantitative activity data with qualitative data collected through in-depth interviews to identify sociocultural determinants of wake time activities and sleep.

• Read more about Development and Pilot Test of a Culture-Centric Digital Storytelling Intervention to Promote HPV Vaccination in Vietnamese American Youth

This project will develop culturally and linguistically congruent digital stories with VA mothers of HPV vaccinated boys. 

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• Read more about A Simulation Study of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act

This study aims to identify evidence needed to ensure healthcare policy promotes payment models designed to make healthcare affordable and continue to increasepatient safety and quality care and thereby, public health. 

• Read more about Safer Bars: A Cluster-randomized Effectiveness Evaluation of Alcohol-related Sexual Violence Prevention Through Bar Staff Bystanders Training

A multi-site R01 to test the effectiveness of the “Safer Bars” program in areas around the three major universities in Arizona. Funded by the CDC Rape Prevention and Education (RPE), the program aims to teach bar staff to recognize potential situations of sexual violence. 

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• Read more about Acceptability and Feasibility of a Culturally Relevant Smartphone-delivered Physical Activity Intervention among Midlife African American Women

This project will examine the acceptability and feasibility of Smart Walk, a culturally relevant and theory-based Smartphone application developed to deliver a physical activity intervention for African American women aged 50-65. 

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• Read more about Physical Activity in Underserved Populations: Using Epidemiologic Assessments to Inform Sustainable Intervention

Physical activity (PA), including regular exercise, prevents weight gain, delays functional limitations, and improves cardiovascular function, yet one in three Americans is inactive.

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• Read more about The Development and Validation of a Novel Paradigm for Assessing Sexual Assault Risk Perception in MSM

Goal: Dating and sexual network app will assist the understanding of factors associated with sexual violence risk, but also serve as a useful step in creating tools to enhance prevention efforts in susceptible population.

• Read more about Pilot test of a heart rate variability biofeedback intervention to optimize storytelling interventions to cope with psychological distress on hematopoietic cell transplant patients

This work aims to examine the potential of HRVB as a "priming" experience to optimize the effects of story viewing by focusing patients' skills and experience on HRV to reduce emotional distress.

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• Read more about An Event-level Examination of Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration: Effects of Alcohol, Instigation, and Regulatory Mechanisms

This study aims to comprehensively investigate the perfect storm theory, which postulates that IPV perpetration is most likely when instigating and impelling factors are strong and when inhibiting factors are weak.

• Read more about Investigating the Influence of Sleep-Wake Patterns and the Gut Microbiome Development in Infancy on Rapid Weight Gain, an Early Risk Factor for Obesity

This study will examine how two understudied factors, sleep-wake patterns and the gut microbiome, affect rapid weight gain in infancy, an early risk factor for obesity. The development of sleep-wake patterns and gut microbe communities will be evaluated, in the context of diverse feeding, maternal, and environmental influences, on infant weight gain.