Congratulations to the following EHHS faculty and graduate students who received the Healthy Communities Research Institute and Bettering Communities research awards.
Launch Pad Awards: Alyssa Anderson, Natalie Caine-Bish and Kiwon Lee - Assessing Restaurant and Individual Diet Quality Related to the Purchase of Food Away From Home in Cuyahoga County
Small Grant Awards: Alyssa Anderson; Meghan Magee - Impact of resistance training in patient prescribed semaglutide: A pilot study
Distinguished Dissertation and Thesis Awards: Ryan Davis and John McDaniel - Effects of Semaglutide on Body Composition, Skeletal Muscle, Quality of Life, Vascular and Mitochondrial Function: Responses to Resistance Training
Jennifer Rivera and Adam Jajtner - The Effects of CWI Timing on Athletic Performance and Recovery
Jessica Smith-Ricketts and Jacob Barkley - Understanding Psychological Impacts of an Interactive, Non-interactive, and Story-telling Gamified Fitness App in Older Adults: A Mixed-Methods Approach
Bettering Communities: Enrico Gandolfi; Francisco Torres and Astrid Sambol铆n Morales - Democratizing Design: Creating a Third Place With/For North Hill鈥檚 Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Community
The HCRI brings together faculty, students, staff, and institutional partners committed to tackling some of our day's most pressing health issues. Launched as part of KSU's strategic roadmap, HCRI is a collective enterprise that promotes transdisciplinary research and endeavors to build connections between researchers at 麻豆精选and other institutions. Engaging undergraduate and graduate student researchers is also vital to the mission of the HCRI, as they are indispensable to the success of faculty research programs and innovators in their own right.
HCRI focuses on scholarly and empirical research that asks bold questions, offers robust solutions, and advances ideas that improve people's lives. We aim to improve community health by creating, preserving, and disseminating knowledge through scholarship, publishing, and outreach. Our research priorities address some of Ohio's and the nation's most critical challenges, including chronic and infectious diseases, health disparities, mental well-being, and rapid technological innovation.