Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP)

InCHIP is excited to announce that two students received Christine N. Witzel Awards this year for their achievements and continued work in women’s health. The Christine N. Witzel Award Fund provides an annual scholarship to an academically promising undergraduate or graduate students enrolled full-time in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and undertaking a […]

OVPR Policy and InCHIP Pre-Award Services InCHIP is committed to helping its affiliates successfully navigate the steps involved in submitting an extramural grant application. InCHIP’s Grants Management Team’s primary services are to provide input, advice, and review of the following components of the grant proposal: Internal administrative and funder-based forms such as the Internal Proposal Routing […]

2020 Jeffrey D. Fisher Health Behavior Change Research Fellowship Awarded We are happy to announce that Matthew Sullivan (Psychological Sciences) was awarded the Fisher Fellowship for his dissertation project titled “Stigma, coping, and HIV PrEP adherence and persistence in people with opioid use disorder in treatment: Patient and prescriber facilitators and barriers to HIV risk […]

“Connecticut ranks 29th in population size in the U.S., but the state ranked 9th in opioid related deaths per capita in 2017, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Since then, overdose deaths nationwide have taken a slight dip, while Connecticut’s opioid-related death-rate has continued to climb. “Opioid-related overdoses is a major public health […]