Health Across the Lifespan
Participating Faculties: Health Sciences (Host)
Project Leader: Kevin Shoemaker
Total Project Funding: $30,000
Funding Period: 1 year (eligible for renewal)
Abstract:
Development funding was provided to the Health Across
the Lifespan team given the strong proposal they submitted in this
years’ competition. They proposed to develop interdisciplinary research
and education processes that are needed to understand healthy living
strategies and to have those applied in the community. The proposal
submitted this round indicated that these processes will be enabled
through development of a series of collaborative and core research
facilities designed to bring campus researchers together to investigate
the socio-cultural and/or biological components of health, health
promotion, health services, care and rehabilitation. Collectively,
these research laboratories and resources will form Study of Health
Across the Lifespan project The Initiative as conceived will complement
hospital or disease-based health care by reducing the clinical burden
both before and following major clinical interventions. Specific
research programs and studies will be enabled through this Initiative
and will help researchers understand the concept of health and the
factors contributing to or impeding healthy aging. The team is
developing an initiative that contains a public program to ensure
effective transfer of theory to practice.
The core health science team will be developing linkages with others around campus and will be applying again in the next round of competition.
