Health Promotion Across the Lifespan

In today’s healthcare landscape, there is an increasing focus on promoting health and preventing disease at every stage of life. As a leader in healthcare research, UConn is at the forefront of advances in behavioral, physiological, and social health sciences, with top experts in health behavior change interventions and policy advocacy. University programs advocate for healthy diets and physical activity throughout the lifespan, apply cutting-edge genetics and genomics research to healthcare issues, and leverage new technologies, including mobile apps, social media, and web-based interventions, to influence health behaviors using diverse quantitative and qualitative research methods.

For example, at the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP), UConn’s scientific research is driving advances in several health-related global health initiatives including food insecurity, weight-loss and physical activity promotion, gun injury prevention, pain management, and substance abuse issues, and application of new and emerging technologies to promote healthy life at all stages of development. The Korey Stringer Institute is an international leader in decreasing heat-related stress and preventing sudden death in the physically active.

UConn researchers also explore intersectional issues, like social determinants of health, that impact health equity and outcomes. In the behavioral and social health sciences, their work seeks to understand holistic well-being and help more people reach it. Utilizing varied methodologies, from advanced quantitative methods to mHealth and social media, UConn researchers are focused on tomorrow’s health for everyone.