We particularly encourage applicants with interests in the following, covering multiple dimensions of prevention research:
- Assessing the built environment's impact using health technology
- Child and adolescent health promotion (behavioral approaches to obesity prevention and treatment, tobacco use control and prevention)
- Chronic disease risk factors in the community and clinical settings
- The effect of aging and other factors on bone health, fitness and physical function
- Environmental and neighborhood influences on health (physical, social, cultural environments)
- Genetics of prevention (cardiovascular and cancer genetic epidemiology, Omics technologies in prevention and personal genomics)
- Building the scientific evidence base about wellbeing by conducting observational, intervention and biomarker research studies to inform best practices for building and sustaining wellbeing among all segments of populations.
- Health inequalities and promoting health equity
- Gender-based violence prevention
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- Health behavior change (nutrition, physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep quality, tobacco use prevention and treatment)
- Healthy aging
- Obesity prevention and control
- Policy research related to public health
- Research methodology (community interventions, community-based participatory research, meta-analysis and bias in research, RCT methods, casual interference, mathematical modeling, and econometrics)
- Technologies for intervention and assessment of health behaviors and conditions (ambulatory monitoring, ecological momentary assessment, mHealth, and telemedicine)
- Women’s health and gender science
- Global health issues, especially in chronic disease prevention
- Citizen science for health promotion and disease prevention
- Strategies to improve clinical delivery of prevention and chronic disease management
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