Health Promotion Across the Lifespan
Promoting health and preventing disease at every stage of life is at the core of UConn’s research mission. As a leader in healthcare research, UConn advances behavioral, physiological, and social health sciences, with experts in health behavior change, policy advocacy, and innovative interventions.
Researchers develop programs that encourage healthy diets and physical activity, apply genetics and genomics to health challenges, and use technologies like mobile apps, social media, and web-based tools to influence health behaviors through diverse methods.
Through the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP), UConn tackles global health priorities such as food insecurity, weight loss, physical activity, gun injury prevention, pain management, substance abuse, and new technologies that promote healthy living. The Korey Stringer Institute leads internationally in reducing heat stress and preventing sudden death among the physically active.
UConn also addresses social determinants of health and other factors that impact equity and outcomes, supporting holistic well-being for all. Mental health is central to this work: the School of Medicine’s psychiatric researchers study mental, emotional, and behavioral health disorders; the School of Dental Medicine advances community dental care informed by behavioral science; and the Department of Psychological Sciences leads collaborative studies on psychopathology.
Together, UConn researchers are helping people live their healthiest lives — in mind and body — across the lifespan.
Center for Advancement in Managing Pain (CAMP)
Develops effective pain treatments, with an emphasis on non-opioid approaches.
Center for Advancing Research, Methods, and Scholarship in Gun Injury Prevention (ARMS)
Facilitates high-quality, original gun injury and violence prevention scholarship.
Center for Applied Research in Human Development (CARHD)
Improves outcomes for sociodemographically marginalized populations by informing and evaluating interventions intended for public benefit.
Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research and Service (UCEDD)
Supports individuals with disabilities and their families in obtaining the services and resources they need to live fulfilling lives in the community, through research, evaluation, and public policy analysis.
Center for mHealth & Social Media
Explores novel applications of digital technologies to health problems, developing new methodologies with digital health tools to conduct clinical research.
Center for Population Health
Focuses on monitoring health trends and improving healthcare outcomes across diverse populations.
Center on Aging
Increases knowledge of the aging process and discovers new strategies to promote the functional health and quality of life of older adults.
Collaboratory on School & Child Health (CSCH)
Facilitates innovative and impactful connections to advance equity in school and child health.
Health Disparities Institute (HDI)
Tackles the root causes of health inequities and implements sustainable solutions with disproportionately impacted communities.
Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP)
Conducts innovative research that impacts human health and well-being from numerous analytical lenses and approaches.
Institute for Sports Medicine
Evaluates the effectiveness of current sports medicine practices and develops evidence-based intervention programming to improve the health and well-being of athletes.
International Center for Life Story Innovations and Practice (ICLIP)
Brings together researchers, historians, and others from around the world to promote health and well-being through the emerging field of life stories.
Korey Stringer Institute (KSI)
Develops practical strategies to prevent sudden death in sport, military, and labor, and promotes health in the physically active.
Musculoskeletal Institute
Conducts research on bone repair, osteoporosis, cartilage metabolism, soft tissue repair, stem cell therapies, tissue engineering, and more.
Nursing and Engineering Innovation Center
Promotes new healthcare technology innovations through collaboration between nursing and engineering.
Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health
Promotes solutions to food insecurity, poor diet quality, and weight bias through research and policy.
Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy
Provides economic analysis for problems related to food, environment, energy, and sustainable economic development.