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

Cancer
InCHIP cancer research is focused on studying and intervening along the entire cancer control continuum from primary prevention to early detection/diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, and end-of-life issues.
Cancer Research
Welcome to InCHIP
InCHIP is an independent, multidisciplinary research center at the University of Connecticut dedicated to the creation and dissemination of new scientific knowledge and theoretical frameworks in the areas of health behavior, health behavior change, health intervention and prevention at multiple levels of analysis.
Welcome to InCHIP
School and Child Health
InCHIP research in school and child health focuses on efforts to inform healthy, safe, supporting, and engaging environments for all children.
School and Child Health
Digital Health
InCHIP digital health research involves the use of mobile technologies, social media, web-based interventions, sensors, and other new technologies to assess, monitor, and modify health and health behavior.
Digital Health
Global Health
About 15% of active InCHIP projects involve health behavior change interventions designed or adapted for sustainability around the world. InCHIP’s research portfolio in Africa is especially robust and largely focused on the core problem area of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.
Global Health
Autism
Autism research at InCHIP addresses several critical topics in the field, such as early detection, parental training, and innovative interventions to help children with autism improve their social, communication and gross motor skills.
Autism Research
Complementary & Alternative Approaches to Medicine
InCHIP’s alternative therapy researchers investigate the physical and mental health benefits of sustained yoga practice, have developed a translational tool that allows researchers to design and compare yoga interventions, and have examined the relationship between religiousness/spirituality and physical health.
Complementary & Alternative Approaches to Medicine
Obesity
InCHIP obesity research seeks to understand and influence the individual, social, and environmental factors contributing to our nation’s obesity epidemic. In 2015, InCHIP became home to the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, which is dedicated to improving the world’s diet, preventing obesity, and reducing weight stigma.
Obesity Research
Alcohol and Substance Use
InCHIP researchers design alcohol and substance use interventions for at-risk populations, from youth to newly-released prisoners transitioning back into the community.
Alcohol and Substance Use Research
Health Disparities
InCHIP health disparity research examines the differences in health-related outcomes (e.g., diet and obesity, vaccine completion, reproductive health) as a function of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation, and other demographic variables.
Health Disparities Research
Treatment Adherence and Retention in Care
InCHIP’s work in treatment adherence and retention in care targets a variety of at-risk populations including men who have sex with men, people with poor literacy skills, and recently released prisoners.
Treatment Adherence and Retention in Care
Sexual Risk Behavior / Reproductive Health
InCHIP’s research on sexual risk behaviors includes the development and evaluation of interventions for pregnancy prevention, the reproductive health of people living with HIV, and the enhancement of partner notification practices around potential HIV/STI exposure.
Sexual Risk Behavior / Reproductive Health Research
Exercise Science
InCHIP researchers from UConn’s top-ranked Kinesiology Department study a broad range of topics including exercise genomics and exercise interventions.
Exercise Science
Diabetes
InCHIP diabetes research includes the development, implementation, and evaluation of theory-driven diabetes self-care interventions and interventions that encourage provider involvement with patients’ self-management of symptoms.
Diabetes Research
HIV/AIDS
InCHIP’s historic roots are in HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment research, with a special focus on HIV risk behavior and an increasingly international scope.
HIV/AIDS Research
Dissemination and Implementation Science
InCHIP dissemination and implementation (D&I) research recognizes the gap between research and practice and is designed to advance the D&I of evidence-based practices in health promotion and disease prevention interventions. [Photo Credit: http://www.tagxedo.com/]
Dissemination and Implementation Science

CIRA Seeks Letters of Intent for its Annual Pilot Projects in HIV Research Program
CIRA currently seeks letters of intent for its annual Pilot Projects in HIV Research Program. Applicants must submit a one-page letter of intent by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, August 20, 2018. Full applications will be due on Monday, October 8, 2018.Download a PDF of the submission guidelines. Overview: The goal of the program is to […]

Reflections on a Visionary Career By Beth Krane
In a chapter he was invited to write for a soon-to-be published book Lives Lost, Careers Changed, and Survival 30 Years On: Narratives from HIV/AIDS Pioneers, Jeff Fisher shared why he and his brother and long-time collaborator, Bill, “were excited - even compelled - to join the fight against AIDS.”

InCHIP Researchers Make Major Scientific Contributions in the Fight Against HIV By Beth Krane
Since HIV/AIDS emerged in 1981 as an alarming new public health threat, biomedical breakthroughs have transformed it from a death sentence to a manageable chronic disease in those countries with adequate resources.. However, those advances alone are not responsible for the remarkable in-roads with the epidemic.

Letter from Jeff Fisher June 18, 2018
Dear InCHIP Affiliates, Principal Investigators, and Staff: This is a good-bye message from me as InCHIP Director, although I will have an office on the second floor of Ryan for the next few years. Starting July 1, Amy Gorin and her team will be running the show at InCHIP, and I will step down from […]

“K” Career Development Award Seminar May 7th
Description: Post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty are eligible for NIH K Research Career Development Awards which are 4-5 year awards that support mentored research and training. K awards have higher funding rates than R grants and assist junior investigators in developing an independent program of research. This seminar will provide an overview of the K […]

Community-Academic Networking Event on May 11th
| Healthy Communities Through Research: Fostering Equitable Community-Academic Partnerships | When: Friday, May 11, 2018 from 12:00 to 3pm Where: Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford, CT Who: For community organizations and academic researchers interested in community-engaged research. This event is free, but registration is required.

NIH Innovation Lab: Junior Faculty Collaboration Opportunity
NIH Innovation Lab: Staying Power: Developing Lifestyle Interventions that Last Innovation Lab methodology is designed to counteract the myriad forces that tend to favor monodisciplinary, incremental science. Innovation Labs move quickly but deliberately to scope the problem and gather data, and then to generate novel combinatorial solutions, “stretch ideas,” and to create and refine solutions/research […]

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