Core Research Project

As the newest Core Research Project of the PRC at UMass Chan, Neighborhood Connect is an applied public health research project that seeks to build community capacity so that residents and neighborhood organizations can work to make their neighborhoods better for walking, biking, and rolling to everyday destinations like schools, stores and parks. These kinds of changes can have other benefits, such as improving traffic safety, air quality, and social connectedness, decreasing crime, and making it easier for all to be physically active as part of daily life.

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PRC Investigator: Stephenie C. Lemon, PhD
Partners: The City of Worcester Division of Public Health, the Coalition for a Healthy Greater Worcester, Walk Massachusetts
Funder: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (PI: Lemon)
Dates: 2024-2029

As the Core Research Project of the PRC at UMass Chan, BP Control is studying costs, return-on-investment, and blood pressure control among sub-groups of people associated with implementing an effective intervention for promoting adherence to anti-hypertensive medications among patients with uncontrolled hypertension. The intervention will be implemented as standard of care for all patients with uncontrolled hypertension.

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PRC Investigators: Milagros C. Rosal, PhD, Stephenie C. Lemon, PhD
Partners: Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center, Family Health Center of Worcester, Inc.
Funder: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (PI: Rosal)
Dates: 2019-2025