The Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research (CHPPR)
The mission of the Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research (CHPPR) is to conduct research to develop, evaluate, and disseminate health promotion and disease prevention programs in diverse settings and populations. The CHPPR is a research center within the University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston, one of 6 graduate schools at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSC-H). The Center has attracted strong national, state and local research and training support from both public and private sectors. Faculty members from the Center form the core for graduate education in health promotion and behavioral sciences at the school and provide a stimulating research environment for pre- and post-doctoral training. CHPPR investigators have worked to attain a breadth and depth of collaborative relations with a wide variety of academic and community partners locally in the ethnically diverse Houston community, nationally and internationally. The CHPPR has been designated as a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Prevention Research Center and a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center. In 2003, the SPH Human Nutrition Center (HNC) merged with the CHPPR, thus strengthening the Center's emphasis on behavioral nutrition and physical activity.
CHPPR Physical Resources
The 28,560 square foot CHPPR Houston office is located on three floors of the University Center Tower (UCT) and includes six conference rooms (one designed for videotaped focus groups), a laboratory, three kitchens, and three workrooms (copy, print, fax, etc.). The HNC occupies approximately, 3200 square feet of the R.A. Stallone (RAS) building and has a workroom and a conference room.
CHPPR employees are provided with a late-model desktop and/or laptop computer and access to local or network printers. Secure file storage, high-speed Internet access, and email services are provided by a group of state-of-the-art servers in the SPH RAS building. The servers are located in a newly-renovated data center, providing very high physical and logical security for all non-public data. Computer software for all employees includes Microsoft Office for word-processing, database, spreadsheet, mail, and presentation needs. Statistical packages such as SPSS, SAS, or Stata are available if needed. All of the desktop computers are part of the SPH local area network which is tied to the UTHSC-H network and the Internet via fiber optic cabling. The SPH network also provides the benefit of mainframe computer program availability on a two-node clustered Alpha system.
Multimedia publishing capability is available through the school's media department which can create video for web, CD, tape, and DVD.
