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RESOURCES
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The RWJ HSSP at the University of Michigan provides access to a rich interdisciplinary research environment and an accomplished faculty working in many areas relevant to population health. The Steering Committee and program mentors represent a broad range of disciplines and are involved in numerous interdisciplinary research projects throughout the University. In addition to a broad array of academic departments from which Scholars can benefit, there are also a large number of Institutes, Centers, and special programs with which Scholars could also interact. A non-exhaustive list includes:
- Center on Social Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH). CSEPH houses a number of large research and training activities related to Social Epidemiology and Population Health. The center is focused on understanding health inequalities from socioeconomic, behavioral, social, psychological, biological, developmental, community, and international perspectives; developing policies to reduce these inequalities, and training researchers to understand the social determinants of healthy populations. Numerous faculty from different units within the University are involved in this interdisciplinary effort.
- Center for Integrative approaches to Health Disparities (CIAHD). The goal of the Michigan Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities (CIAHD) is to promote and support research that comprehensively integrates social and biological factors within a multilevel framework in understanding the determinants of minority health and health disparities.
- Survey Research Center (SRC). The SRC is internationally recognized as a leader in interdisciplinary social science. The SRC has evolved to a current array of ten major research programs: Economic Behavior; Youth and Social Issues; Social Environment and Health; Survey Methodology; Life Course Development; Family and Demography; Social Indicators; Socio-environmental Studies; Evolution and Human Adaptation; and, Environmental Studies.
- Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, Health (CRECH). CRECH provides a forum for basic and applied public health research and training on relationships among ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic status and health. The Center seeks to develop new interdisciplinary frameworks for understanding these relationships while promoting effective collaborations among public health academicians, health providers, and local communities.
- Center for Human Growth and Development (CHGD). CHGD uses a multidisciplinary perspective to study children's physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development. CHGD has major programs devoted to Children in Poverty, Development and Mental Health, Cognition, Achievement and Culture, and Brain-Behavior relationships in the Developing Child.
- Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center. A collaborative partnership involving the School of Public Health, the Detroit Health Department, and six community-based organizations, it promotes and supports interdisciplinary, collaborative, community-based participatory research in the east and southwest sides of Detroit on social determinants, protective factors, intermediate outcomes, and long-term health outcomes specific to inner-city, urban environments.
- Prevention Research Center (PRC). The PRC conducts community-based participatory prevention research aimed at improving the health status and reducing morbidity and mortality among poor populations. The interventions emphasize the role of families and communities in health promotion and disease prevention.
- Quantitative Methodology Program (QMP). QMP, which includes Raudenbush and Raghunathan, promotes innovative research at the intersections of social science and statistical science and facilitates the training of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. It involves more than 10 departments and Schools within the University.
- Program in Society and Medicine (PSM). Directed by Howell, the PSM brings together researchers and teachers interested in the relationships between health care and society from a wide range of non-biological perspectives.
- The Program for the Study of Complex Systems (PSCS): This program, of which Kardia is a member, centers on the study of biological, social, or physical systems in which feedback, regulation, and adaptation play an important role in the system's dynamics. It is fundamentally interdisciplinary in approach delving into issues of complexity as they relate to biology, neurosciences, economics, political science, epidemiology, genetics, and other areas.
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The University of Michigan is recognized as a world center on research related to the determinants of Population Health. A sample of projects and databases that may be of interest to Scholars is provided below. Many others not listed here are also available.
- Chicago Community Adult Health Study (CCAH). CCAH study is a groundbreaking study of the impact on health of social inequalities and psychological and other psychosocial risk factors in a sample of 4000 adults in a major American city, with the most thorough assessment ever of the urban social environment. It is studying the role of social context, socioeconomic position, race/ethnicity, psychosocial factors, biological markers of stress, in a variety of health outcomes.
- National Survey of American Life (NSAL). The NSAL is an ambitious project being undertaken by the Program for Research on Black Americans. Interviews throughout the United States, and especially in urban and rural centers of the country will include 4,000 African Americans, 1,800 non-Hispanic whites, and 1,000 blacks of Caribbean descent. The survey includes state-of-the-art assessments of psychological distress and mental disorders and questions about neighborhood characteristics, religion, health and work.
- Community Action Against Asthma (CAAA). Part of Israels "Centers for Environment and Children," CAAA is focused on reducing exposure to physical environmental and psychosocial environmental stressors associated with asthma severity and exacerbation, and strengthening factors that modify the effect of these stressors on children with asthma, their caregivers, and the neighborhoods and broader community in which they reside.
- Women's Employment Study (WES). Led by Sheldon Danziger, the WES project examines barriers to employment among welfare mothers in an ongoing panel study of current and former welfare recipient families in an urban county in Michigan. A more extensive health section as been added, including biologic measures, in collaboration with Kaplan and others.
- Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Neighborhood Study. A longitudinal study of the effects of neighborhood environments on the development and maintenance of cardiovascular risk factors. The study is unique in its multiethnic sample, detailed behavioral and biological assessments and in the availability of stat-of-the art measures of neighborhood environments using GIS and other methods in a longitudinal setting.
- Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Stress Study . A population based study of the role of stress in cardiovascular disease and related disorders with numerous biological measures of the stress response and other biomarkers in a multiethnic cohort with rich social and health outcome data.
- Detroit Neighborhood Health Study (DNHS) . A 5-year NIH funded study that aims to study the links between the quality of neighborhoods citywide and the physical and mental health of local residents. The project will study all Detroit neighborhoods in two ways. First, a randomly selected group of 1,500 residents of Detroit will participate in a telephone survey and provide a small amount of blood or saliva each year for 3 years. Second, the quality of the environment of all 54 neighborhoods in Detroit will be systematically assessed using standardized instruments. At the end of the project we hope to be able to identify both the linkages between specific features of the neighborhood environment and the mental health and well-being of Detroit residents, and also to identify specific biologic mechanisms that explain why we are seeing these associations.
In addition to data collected by faculty in past and ongoing projects, far too numerous to list, Scholars have access to the following data sources, among many others:
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