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.
Upcoming Events
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Apr
4
InCHIP Lecture Series: Morissa Henn, DrPH, Deputy Commissioner, NH Department of Health and Human Services 12:30pm
InCHIP Lecture Series: Morissa Henn, DrPH, Deputy Commissioner, NH Department of Health and Human Services
Thursday, April 4th, 2024
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Morissa Henn, DrPH, Deputy Commissioner, NH Department of Health and Human Services
Topic: Firearm Safety and Suicide Prevention
April 4, 2024 | 12:30-1:30 PM
Virtual Lecture
Morissa Henn serves as Deputy Commissioner at the NH Department of Health and Human Services, the State’s largest executive agency, which is guided by a mission “to join communities and families in providing opportunities for residents to achieve health and independence.” In this role, she leads cross-cutting strategic efforts to integrate policy and practice, with a focus on supporting NH’s most vulnerable individuals. She also oversees Hampstead Hospital and Residential Treatment Facility, the state-run psychiatric treatment facility for youth. Morissa was recently promoted from the role of Associate Commissioner, where her portfolio included the Division for Children, Youth, and Families the Division for Behavioral Health. With roles in New York and Utah in addition to New Hampshire, Morissa has spent the past 15 years working to try and put community needs and voices at the center of health and human service system policy and design.
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Apr
18
InCHIP Lecture Series: Chelsea Singleton, Ph.D., Tulane University 12:30pm
InCHIP Lecture Series: Chelsea Singleton, Ph.D., Tulane University
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Hybrid Lecture: InCHIP, J. Ray Ryan Bldg., Room 204 (top floor)
Chelsea Singleton, Ph.D., Tulane University
Topic: Impact of Healthy Food Access on Dietary Intake and Chronic Disease
April 18, 2024 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM
Dr. Chelsea Singleton is a nutritional epidemiologist whose research examines the impact healthy food access has on food purchasing behavior, dietary intake, and chronic disease risk. The overarching goal of her research is to document and dismantle nutritional inequities affecting low-income populations and people of color in the U.S. Her recent work has primarily focused on describing the mechanisms by which structural racism and structural violence impede healthy eating in underserved communities. She has extensive experience working with nutrition assistance program participants (e.g., SNAP, WIC), and she primarily uses epidemiological, geo-spatial, and community-based participatory research methods to accomplish her research goals. Prior to joining the SBPS faculty, she was an Assistant Professor of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed a USDA-funded post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2018. In 2020, the National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities (NIH/NIMHD) awarded her a five-year K01 grant. Her K01 research aims to study the effects of community violence on food retail and food purchasing behavior in low-income African American communities. She is a proud Tulane and Xavier graduate!
Join In-Person: InCHIP, J. Ray Ryan Bldg., Room 204
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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
What Families Need to Know About How to Safely Store Firearms at Home
For the past few years, guns have been identified as the leading cause of death for children in the United States.
There were 2,571 children age 1 to 17 who died in shootings in the U.S. in 2021, 68% more than the 1,531 that occurred in 2000.
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Supportive Obesity Care a Subject of Attention at UConn
UConn’s Rudd Center has launched a new educational website for healthcare professionals titled “Supportive Obesity Care.” The goal of this project is to equip healthcare professionals with knowledge and tools to provide more respectful, supportive, and compassionate care to patients of all body sizes.