CHPPR Research Projects
Current research projects are listed below. Click a project title to go its detail page.
Be Legendary - Developing a Multi-Component Teen Pregnancy Prevention Intervention for Male Teens
A theoretically-based and youth-centered approach to reduce unplanned teen birth among male adolescentsBrief Interventions to Create Smoke-Free Home Policies in Low-Income Households
The Smoke-Free Homes Program: Some Things are Better Outside (SFHs) is a minimally intensive program with three mailings and a single counseling telephone call, implemented in partnership with 2-1-1 social services information and referral (I&R) systems.Care Coordination for Complex Cancer Survivors in an Integrated Safety-net System
The project involves implementing care coordination strategies shown to be effective for primary care conditions among complex cancer survivors at Parkland Health & Hospital System.Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, Community Engagement Component
This project focuses on the Community Engagement component of the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS)Child home safety in Hispanic and rural communities: A community health worker intervention
A culturally tailored, community health worker driven intervention to address child home safety hazards.Cluster Randomized Trial of School-Based Program to Prevent Teen Dating Violence
The goal of this study (sub-contracted from the University of Texas Medical Branch) is to rigorously evaluate the middle school version of Fourth R, an effective high school dating violence prevention program.Connecting Behavioral Science to COVID-19 Vaccine Demand Network: PRC COVID-19 Supplement Project
CBS-CVD conducted needs assessments to inform the development of tailored interventions to increase COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake among Black and Hispanic individuals in Harris and Cameron counties.Enhanced Integrated Treatment Program with Sexual Health in Recovery (EITP-SHIR)
Program evaluation of an evidence-based program, the Enhanced Integrated Treatment Program with Sexual Health in Recovery (EITP-SHIR) for gay/bi and transgender women who who use club drugs during risky sex and are at high risk for contracting or transmitting HIVEvaluation of Texas Association of Community Health Centers Initiative for Trauma Informed Care
This project is an evaluation of the Texas Association of Community Health Centers initiative to implement a trauma informed care approach in community health centers.Evaluation of the SHARE! Supervision of Peer Workforce project
A cluster-randomized trial of the Supervision of Peer Workforce project, which seeks to maximize the efficacy of both peer workers and their supervisors, thereby improving outcomes for individuals receiving mental health and substance use services.Houston Collaborative for Youth in Care Research/iCHAMPSS 2.0
UTHealth leads the research arm of the Houston Collaborative for Youth in Care. This work includes developing sexual health education for youth in foster care and adults that work with them, updating iCHAMPSS, and reviewing sex-ed programs for TEKS alignment.Houston Experiences in Reproductive Health Survey (HER Survey)
Survey on reproductive health experiences of women in Harris County.HRSA Opioid Workforce Expansion Program (OWEP) - Recovery Support Peer Specialists
This project will establish a network of workforce development hubs across Texas in order to enhance community-based experiential training for students preparing to become Recovery Support Peer Specialists (RSPS) in high need and high demand communities along the Texas-Mexico Border.Me & You-Tech: A Socio-Ecological Solution to Teen Dating Violence for the Digital Age
The goal of this 3 year Fast-Track STTR is to develop and evaluate a multi-level (youth, parent, school) Internet-based teen dating violence (DV) prevention program, ‘Me & You-Tech’ (MYTech), for predominantly racial/ethnic-minority 6th--grade middle school students.Mobilizing Community Partnerships for Effective Sex Education in Middle School
Using community-based participatory research methods, researchers at UTHealth developed iCHAMPSS, an innovative, theory- and Web-based decision support system designed to facilitate the adoption, implementation, and maintenance of adolescent sexual health evidence-based programs in schools.Network Dynamics of Syphilis Co-infection within Biomedical Prevention
This project takes biological, behavioral, and epidemiological perspectives to investigate complex syphilis-HIV transmission dynamic processes among young Black men who have sex with men at the aim of creating effective syphilis eliminations interventions for most-at-risk population in the United States.Next-generation phylodynamics-targeted partner service models for combined HIV prevention
This project aims to guide and transform the rapidly evolving public health implementation of molecular HIV surveillance (MHS) based prevention interventions as a critical step towards HIV elimination in Chicago and Houston.Proyecto Vales+Tú: A Program to Prevent Injury Disparities Among Latino Day Laborers
The aims of this study were to identify intervention priorities then to design and pilot a culturally responsive safety intervention program for Latino day laborers (LDL).Salud en Mis Manos Dissemination and Implementation Assistance (SEMM-DIA)
SEMM-DIA is an implementation support system for Salud en Mis Manos (SEMM), an evidence-based breast and cervical education and navigation program for Latinas. SEMM-DIA includes a set of implementation strategies to facilitate program implementation and maintenance.Sexual and Gender Minority Cancer Curricular Advances for Research and Education (SGM Cancer CARE)
An up-to-date, useful, competency-based, modular workshop curriculum for providing participants with knowledge and skills to begin conducting high-quality and culturally appropriate research to improve Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) care across the cancer care Continuum.Spanish MINDSET: Expanding and Validating a Self-Management Tool for the Hispanic Community
The goal of this project is to develop a Spanish version of an epilepsy self-management decision-support system and test the efficacy of both the Spanish and English versions on epilepsy self-management in Hispanic.YMAP: Young Men’s Affiliation Project of HIV Risk and Prevention Venue
This project conducts a multisite longitudinal network study to investigate the HIV/STD risk and protective behaviors associated with social networks created by venue affiliations among young men who have sex with men (YMSM) ages 16-29 years.