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Mission
The Health Promotion Research Branch (HPRB) supports research on behavioral prevention, which includes diet, physical activity, energy balance, virus exposure, and sun exposure. It provides leadership in these areas by focusing research on effective clinical, environmental, and community-based intervention strategies. It synthesizes and disseminates findings, recommendations, and priorities of successful strategies in prevention behavioral change interventions to target organizations and individuals and solicits input from and communicates regularly with the extramural community to refine methodology and evaluate effectiveness.
Goals
- Plans, develops, and coordinates research on non-tobacco behavioral prevention, which includes diet, physical activity, energy balance, virus exposure, and sun exposure;
- Provides leadership in developing methodologic measurement of diet, physical activity, and other lifestyle variables, such as measures of psychosocial correlates of eating patterns and of the food environment along with food consumption and dietary related biomarkers;
- Plans, develops and coordinates research focused on effective strategies to reach population sub-groups at greater risk for certain cancers;
- Develops and supports evaluation of which strategies are most effective within clinical intervention studies and community-based interventions and the development of effective policy, environmental and organizational-based interventions; and
- Solicits input and communicates regularly with the extramural community to refine methodology and evaluate effectiveness;
- Plans, administers, and evaluates demonstration project research, including dissemination and diffusion of successful strategies in prevention behavioral change interventions;
- Sponsors workshops, symposia and other means of disseminating research findings;
- Plans and participates in training programs;
- Synthesizes and disseminates findings, recommendations and priorities to target organizations and individuals.
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