WELCOME
TO InCHIP
UConn’s Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP) brings together individuals with diverse scientific, clinical, and methodological expertise and supports their evolution into collaborative investigators who conduct innovative interdisciplinary research that impacts public health and well-being.
Research Development
InCHIP is a no-cost “one-stop shop” for training, mentorship, research team development, and grant proposal writing for UConn investigators at all stages of their careers, from graduate students to tenured faculty. We offer a range of services, including workshops, one-on-one consultations, pilot funding, and more.
Grants Management
InCHIP is committed to providing its affiliates with the tools needed to submit an extramural grant application, and if awarded, InCHIP’s Grants Management Team is available to assist InCHIP affiliates in processing the grant through the post-award period. InCHIP also provides services to help affiliates find appropriate grants and funding for their research.
By the Numbers in FY23
136
Active PIs
$ 108 M
Grant Portfolio
$1.3M
in Graduate Student Support
InCHIP Centers
UConn Center for Advancing Research, Methods, and Scholarship in Gun Injury Prevention
ARMS is an interdisciplinary research initiative that seeks to advance UConn’s institutional capacity to conduct high quality gun injury and violence prevention policy scholarship.
Collaboratory on School and Child Health
The Collaboratory on School and Child Health (CSCH) facilitates innovative and impactful connections across research, policy, and practice arenas to advance equity in school and child health. CSCH is committed to anti-racist work that prioritizes inclusion, reduces disparities, and creates systemic change.
UConn Center for mHealth and Social Media
The Center for mHealth and Social Media (CHASM) advances the science of digital health by applying existing and developing novel digital technologies to the study of health promotion through research and intervention.
UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health
The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health promotes solutions to food insecurity, poor diet quality, and weight bias through research and policy.
InCHIP in UConn Today
Upcoming Events
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Apr
25
InCHIP Lecture Series: Chiara Sabina, Ph.D., Rutgers University 12:30pm
InCHIP Lecture Series: Chiara Sabina, Ph.D., Rutgers University
Thursday, April 25th, 2024
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Virtual
In Recognition of Sexaul Assault Awareness Month
Chiara Sabina, Ph.D. Rutgers University
Topic: Sexual violence among Latinas
April 25, 2024 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM
Dr. Chiara Sabina is an associate professor at the School of Social Work at Rutgers University. Her research centers on interpersonal victimization, especially intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and dating violence among Latinos. Dr. Sabina employs a contextual, strengths-based perspective with respect to interpersonal violence focusing on understudied groups, the influence of cultural variables, help-seeking responses, and examination of the service-delivery system. Dr. Sabina has received grants from the Fulbright Scholar Program, National Institute of Justice, Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, Vision of Hope, and National Sexual Violence Resource Center to conduct her work on Latino victimization, victim needs, violence prevention, domestic violence services, and culturally-informed services. Dr. Sabina is Senior Consulting Editor for Psychology of Violence and is a member of the Research Advisory Board of the National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities.
In the News
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Supportive Obesity Care a Subject of Attention at UConn
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