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Research-Practice Facilities

Community Health Behavior Laboratory
(David Dzewaltowski)

The Community Health Institute’s Health Behavior Lab (HBL) conducts research and evaluates health intervention programs targeting physical activity, diet, and positive social behavior. Staff is experienced in community methods for the measurement of physical activity, diet, and social environment quality and the development of interventions to improve these outcomes.

The Community Health Behavior Lab has played a central role in active extramural grant contracts with the following health agencies:

• NIH
• Kansas Department of Health and Environment
• Kansas Health Foundation
• Sunflower Foundation
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• United Methodist Health Ministry Fund
• USDA

The Health Behavior Lab provides data collection and management services to Faculty Associate Scientists. In order to assist with data collection, the lab has a high speed optical scanner that can convert paper surveys to data in a fraction of the time that it would take to key in the data.