Research Projects

    Development and Enhancement of Mental and Behavioral Health Training in Family Medicine Residency

    PI: Susan E. Cochella, MD, MPH
    Co-PI's: Katie Fortenberry, Quang-Yuyen Nguyen, Laura Moreno, Erika Sullivan, Sonja Van Hala
    Sponsor: HRSA
    Dates: 12/2022 - 09/2027

    Increase the number of primary care physicians who are trained in the prevention, identification, diagnosis, treatment, and referral of services for mental and behavioral health conditions. Also develop or expand partnerships with integrated behavioral health and primary care settings and community-based organizations to provide clinical rotations for at least one month in duration for primary care residents.

    Advancing Health Equity Among Congregate Meal Program Participants through Utilizing Appropriate Malnutrition Frailty and Social Determinants of Health Screenings, Assessments, and Interventions

    PI: Susan Saffel-Shrier
    Sponsor: ACL
    Dates: 08/2022 - 07/2027

    This study is implementing a sustainable social determinates of health based malnutrition assessment and physical activity program, evaluating screening accuracy, measuring treatment effects, and gathering participant feedback to inform future interventions.

    Primary Care Training and Enhancement‐Community Prevention and Maternal Health

    PI: Carl Whittaker
    Co-PI's: Kristen Stoesser, David Turok, Katie Fortenberry, Chaz Whitbeck
    Sponsor: HRSA
    Dates: 07/2021 - 06/2026

    Maternal Health Capacity Building for the medically under supported in rural and urban Utah. This project is enhancing obstetrics care across the state through targeted initiatives supported by HRSA funding. These efforts include expanding FM/OB fellowships and rural rotation sites, integrating telehealth training, collaborating with UDOH Title V on opioid education, and fostering interdisciplinary learning with physician assistant trainees.

    Translating mHealth to population level just-in-time adaptive interventions: Using resilience-based emotional processes to promote tobacco cessation among historically underrepresented populations

    PI: Dusti Jones, Maureen Murtaugh
    Sponsor: NCATS
    Dates: 07/2023 - 06/2026

    The major goals of this research are to: 1) identify protective, resilience promoting emotional processes that help historically under recognized tobacco users be more successful in their quit attempts, and 2) testing the effectiveness of just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) to facilitate these resilience-based emotional processes. Training goals of the K are to develop comprehensive understanding of: 1) health imbalances in health behavior and chronic disease prevention; 2) adaptive intervention science in translational science; and 3) tailoring, decision-making, and analyses for JITAIs.