Current Projects
Research is the complement to your classroom experience at ASU. At ASU’s Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, undergraduates and graduates alike are able to work with faculty on great challenges ranging in health and health care.
Listed below are active research projects being conducted by our renowned faculty. Students interested in participating with a research project should contact the principle investigator.
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Maryvale Promotores Movement This project conducts outreach within Maryvale and identify Promotores working formally/informally in the community. Project staff engage Maryvale Promotores in the Promotores HOPE Network to... Families Population Health›Hispanic / Latino Population |
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Music and Memory II This project replicates the initial Music & Memory project, an interprofessional collaboration with musicians from The Phoenix Symphony, staff from a long term facility, and ASU faculty from... Aging Caregiving Music Therapy |
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Navigation from Community to Clinic to promote CRC screening in Underserved Populations Regular screening facilitates the early diagnosis of colorectal cancer (CRC), the second leading cause of cancer death, and contributes to the reduction of CRC morbidity and mortality, but the... Cancer›Colorectal Cancer Population Health›Underserved Populations |
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Nevada’s ACL: Dementia Capability for Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia This collaboration among ADSD, Nevada’s HCBCS system will create a sustainability home and community-based dementia capable services system grounded in evidence-based or evidence-informed services... Aging Caregiving Families |
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Outreach and Recruitment Core - Arizona Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center P-30 Outreach and Recruitment Core Leader for the Arizona Alzheimer’s Disease Center fostering education, outreach and recruitment, particularly of diverse participants into the clinical core with an... Aging Caregiving Health Outreach Population Health›Underserved Populations |
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Partnering for Physical Activity in Early Childhood: Sustainability via Active Garden Education Sustainability via Active Garden Education (SAGE) is a garden based physical activity and nutrition early care and education-based intervention for preschool-aged children. The SAGE curriculum... Families›Childhood Nutrition Physical Activity |
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Phoenix VA IPA Examining the effects of exercise and weight loss on sleep apnea and associated morbidity in overweight veterans. PI: Shawn Youngstedt CONHI Investigator: Megan Petrov Chronic Disease›Obesity Physical Activity Sleep Disorders |
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Predictors of resilience and positive outcomes for patients with acute respiratory failure and their families Acute respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation in an intensive care unit (ICU) is common, affecting almost 800,000 people each year. With survival from acute respiratory failure... Acute Care Families Respiratory |
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Preventing Childhood Obesity through Early Feeding and Parenting Guidance This study will demonstrate that community health workers (CHW), supervised by public health nurses, can deliver a home-based obesity prevention intervention to low-income Mexican and Mexican-... Chronic Disease›Obesity Families›Childhood Population Health›Hispanic / Latino Population |
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Preventing Diabetes in Latino Youth The study will test the effectiveness of a year-long, culturally-grounded, lifestyle intervention program for reducing diabetes risk in obese Latino adolescents with prediabetic diagnosis and... Chronic Disease›Diabetes |