Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research

Conducting research to develop, evaluate and disseminate health promotion and disease prevention programs in diverse settings and populations.

Our Mission

The mission of the UTHealth Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research (CHPPR) is to conduct research to develop, evaluate, and disseminate health promotion and disease prevention programs, with a particular focus on decreasing cancer-related and chronic disease health disparities among African American and Hispanic populations.

CHPPR is proud to be the only CDC Prevention Research Center (PRC) in the state of Texas. As one of 26 PRCs nationwide, CHPPR is part of a collaborative network of research centers focused on the study of how people and communities can avoid or counter the risks for chronic illnesses, particularly among underserved populations.

Featured News

CHPPR's Project HOMES is expanding the availability of medically assisted recovery residences in Texas

The Project HOMES (Housing for Opioid MAR Expanded Services) study is working with local community partners across Texas to operate and evaluate state-certified, no cost, recovery residences for people who used opioids and are taking buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone to recover.
CHPPR Partners with Texas Health Centers to Implement a Healthy Heart Ambassador Program

The Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research partners with Texas health centers like South Texas Rural Health Services, Inc. to promote the use of the Healthy Heart Ambassador and Self-Measured Blood Pressure programs to help identify, treat and manage high blood pressure and reduce risk factors for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease.
UTHealth Houston, Baylor College of Medicine to collaborate on new HIV Implementation Science Consultation Hub

The UTHealth Houston Institute for Implementation Science and the Texas Developmental Center for AIDS Research (Texas D-CFAR), a collaboration between Baylor College of Medicine, UTHealth Houston and Texas Biomedical Research Institute, recently received funding from the National Institutes of Health to establish the new Texas Implementation Science Hub to End HIV (Texas IS Hub).
Avenue 360 and CHPPR Partner to Improve Health in Underserved Communities

Avenue 360 Health and Wellness, a CHPPR partner, provides a full range of healthcare to medically underserved communities across the Houston area

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Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research

Conducting research to develop, evaluate and disseminate health promotion and disease prevention programs in diverse settings and populations.

Our Mission

Featured News

CHPPR Partner Epilepsy Foundation Texas Provides Epilepsy Support, Services, and Education Across the State

CHPPR's Project STOP develops smartphone app to support smoking cessation treatment

Introducing the UTHealth Houston Institute for Implementation Science

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Abigail Adjei MBChB, MPH: Nicotine Dependence Among Adolescent E-cigarette Users

IDEA Committee Journal Club

Virtual Seminar: Causal Deep Learning for Estimating Individual Treatment Effect in Censored Survival Data

Supply Chain Resiliency and Public-Private Partnerships with McKesson

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Adrianna Maliga, MPH: Surveillance of Acute Febrile Illnesses in Central America

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Hanxiao Sun, MS: A continuous local ancestry measure and efficient local-ancestry-aware associati

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Gretchen Rodriguez, MPH, CIC: Understanding the availability, codability and usability of occupat

Dissertation proposal defense by Rachel D. Harris, BA: An Integrative Molecular Epidemiologic Approach to Improve Neurotoxicity...

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Dennis Ogeto Nyachoti, PHO, MPH: Exploring the Association of Social Vulnerabilities with COVID19

Dissertation Defense by Shane Reader, MA: Good Faith: Surveillance and Evaluation of 911 Good Samaritan Laws in the United States

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Omobola Oluwafemi, MPH: Assessing parental race/ ethnicity and maternal immune response as independent risk factors for offspring birth defects

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Sara Stephens, MPH: Mortality Among Children with Congenital Heart Defects in the United States

Emerging Infections and Emerging Responses in the Context of the Island of Cyprus

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Catherine Pulicken: Using IM for the Adoption & Implementation of SMBP among African Americans

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Walk With a Doc - Memorial Hermann Southeast

This is Public Health (TIPH) Virtual Event

Analysis of Count Data in Medical and Social Sciences: An Application to Smoking Among Students