Center for Health Promotion

Website: http://www.tc.edu/centers/healthpromotion/

The Center for Health Promotion, which was established in 1981, has comprised diverse working groups of faculty and students interested in stimulating research and development efforts responsive to national priorities in health promotion and disease prevention. Historically, the work of participating faculty and students has spanned both basic and applied research and development, and has included projects focusing on the influences of personal behavior on health status, as well as how educational and behavioral intervention can be used to improve health and prevent premature death and disability throughout the human life span through schools, patient care, workplace, and other community-based settings.
Faculty of the center have been instrumental in organizing and supporting the development of multidisciplinary teams capable of competing for external grant support to address complex research questions. These teams have collaborated on consortium projects with physicians and with behavioral scientists, biostatisticians, epidemiologists, economists, and other experts, and often involve graduate students from the programs in the health studies cluster of the Department of Health and Behavior Studies.
Extensive collaborative research activities have been undertaken during the last two decades with faculty from the various schools of the Columbia University Faculty of Medicine, including the School of Nursing, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Joseph A. Mailman School of Public Health; Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University; and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Center projects and investigators have been funded by grants from several of the National Institutes of Health and numerous private foundations, including the Arthritis Foundation, Cancer Research Foundation of America, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Metropolitan Life Foundation, and the Pew Memorial Trusts.