Helping Everyone Achieve a Lifetime of Health Research Institute

This weekend our community engagement team attended the Back to School Event at the Denver Harbor Multi-Service Center. We were able to share information to the community about our affiliated research initiatives!

🚨Our Summer 2024 newsletter was recently released!🚨

Check out the progress made by our affiliates and team members. Click here to access the newsletter: https://hri.uh.edu/newsletters

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men are more at risk of developing chronic health diseases, such as coronary heart disease, cancer, among others? When you make healthy choices, you are preventing the risk of developing chronic diseases. Your decisions matter, make the healthy choice.

"High levels of neighborhood threat shape perceptions of powerlessness among residents." Research findings from a University of Houston led by Dr. Michael Zvolenksy indicate that more individuals smoke--and have difficulty quitting--in unsafe neighborhoods.

If You Feel Unsafe in Your Neighborhood, A New Study Shows You Are More Likely to Smoke Research from indicates that more people smoke – and have trouble quitting – in neighborhoods where they feel unsafe.

"The intervention offers a real-world, day-to-day access to support." University of Houston's Dr. Lorra Garey and the RESTORE Lab team have developed a mobile app intervention that targets cannabis use as a false safety behavior to alleviate anxiety, stress and depression.

UH Research Team Develops a Mobile Intervention to Curb Cannabis Use For Immediate Release: June 12, 2024; Houston, TexasFor the first time ever, daily cannabis use is now outpacing daily drinking in the U.S., according to a new study in Addiction. In fact, approximately 17.7 million people reported daily or near-daily cannabis use in the recent study, compared to 14...

"Building partnerships like this will enable us to collaborate on research, create joint academic programs and exchange faculty which will only raise our profile globally.” Congratulations to Dr. Adepoju who was recently awarded the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship to support scholarly research in partnership with the University of Ghana Medical School.
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Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine Professor Awarded Prestigious Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Dr. Omolola Adepoju, health services researcher and clinical associate professor at the University of Houston’s Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine, has been awarded a prestigious Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship to support high-caliber scholarly research and education projects at th...

Job Opening! Learn more about new opportunities to be involved in meaningful research which has a direct impact on health equity. The Health Center for Addictions Research and Cancer Prevention and Helping Everyone Achieve a Lifetime of Health Research Institute are now hiring! Visit our Careers page to learn more. Come join our team-> http://bit.ly/3r2Pf6J.

This year, our Student Cadre made a huge impact in the Houston community! They attended professional development seminars, assisted with ongoing research projects, and helped community members. We want to say THANK YOU to our 2023-2024 Student Cadre for all of your hard work!

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