CHIP MISSION

The University of Connecticut’s Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention (CHIP) creates new scientific knowledge and theoretical frameworks in the areas of health behavior, health behavior change, health intervention, and prevention. It disseminates theory-based knowledge and new cutting edge interventions through research, capacity-building, teaching, mentoring, and collaboration at the university, local, state, national, and international levels.

Long Range Goals for the Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention (CHIP)

Goal 1:  CHIP will provide an interdisciplinary nexus for investigators across the University of Connecticut to stimulate multi-disciplinary collaborations and major new funded research initiatives in health behavior, health behavior change, health intervention, prevention, and other areas involving health behavior change theory and methods.

Goal 2:  CHIP will undertake research to create new scientific knowledge, new theoretical frameworks, and new methodological advances in the areas of health behavior, health behavior change, health intervention, and prevention. This work will focus on understanding the dynamics of health behavior, the science of health behavior change, and the science and practice of developing and disseminating effective interventions to the institutions charged with delivering them.

Goal 3:  CHIP will provide health behavior and health behavior change expertise, capacity building, and technology transfer to local, state, national, and international agencies and organizations performing health behavior change interventions.