University of Arizona
Canyon Ranch Center for Prevention and Health Promotion

Center’s Web site*

First funded: 1998

 

Core Research Focus

Influencing policy and conducting behavioral interventions to prevent and control diabetes in multiethnic communities along the Arizona-Mexico border.

Core Research Projects

Current (2004–2009)
Comprehensive Diabetes Intervention Research Project
Testing a low-cost, multi-intervention strategy to help Mexican-Americans in Arizona’s border communities to increase physical activity, improve diet, and manage diabetes.
Principal Investigator:
Lisa Staten, staten@u.arizona.edu

Past (1998–2004)
Reducing Diabetes and Heart Disease Among U.S.-Mexico Border Communities

 

Contact Information

Center
University of Arizona
Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
Canyon Ranch Center for Prevention and Health Promotion
1295 N. Martin Ave
Tucson, AZ 85724

Co-Director and Co-Principal Investigator
Lisa Staten, PhD
Phone: (520) 321-7777 ext.13
Fax: (520) 321-7754
E-mail: staten@u.arizona.edu

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