Current Projects Descriptions

Community Evaluations

Adolescent Family Life Care Program
AFL-CARE is a teen pregnancy prevention program providing intensive case management to pregnant and parenting teens. IPH evaluators will provide technical assistance and evaluation services for implementing the evaluation component of the San Diego Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting Program's Adolescent Family Life Care Project. Evaluation services include developing data collection instruments, training staff to administer surveys, data collection and analysis. (Posted: 11/17/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: San Diego Unified School District, San Diego Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting Program

CA-NARCH Program Evaluation
The California Native American Research Center for Health (CA-NARCH) seeks to identify, recruit, place, and retain Native American students into two and four year universities and graduate programs using both existing minority student support programs and by creating a new initiative to supplement the existing programs. The IPH has contracted with NARCH to assist in the overall evaluation of the NARCH program and to develop a tracking system that can be used to for data collection and monitoring of students who are part of the NARCH program. IPH activities include development of data collection forms, conducting the implementation, design, training, maintenance and support of a web-based data collection solution. (Posted: 8/1/05)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: California Native American Research Centers for Health

Cancer Navigator
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors initiated Cancer Navigator with tobacco-settlement funds to serve as a central resource for linking to local cancer information and services. The IPH has contracted to assist Cancer Navigator in evaluating their two major components: a website and a call center. The Web site serves as a central repository of links to cancer information and services in San Diego County and includes links to national websites. The HelpLine provides personalized support, available in English and Spanish, for those who do not have Internet access or those who would rather speak with a staff member. (Posted: 8/1/05)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: Board of Supervisors, San Diego County

Dad's Club
Dad's Club is a community-based program for fathers to engage with their children, develop positive parenting and leadership skills, and become more involved in their neighborhood as they find collaborative solutions to reducing community violence. IPH evaluation services include program development, survey design, and data analysis and reporting. Current activities include the development of a participatory photovoice evaluation project to be conducted with fathers and their children. (Posted: 8/5/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: Social Advocates for Youth, San Diego

Elder Health Needs Assessment
San Diego encompasses the second largest Somali community in the nation and faces many issues and challenges associated with refugee resettlement and acculturation. Somali Family Service seeks to rebuild lives through education, economic development, and contributions to the community at large. The IPH is assisting Somali Family Service in conducting a health needs assessment of the elders in the San Diego Somali community. As a team, Somali Family Service and the IPH staff are developing gender specific needs assessment tools for social service and health care providers. This team is working closely with community elders to ensure that the tools developed are appropriate to the population and will be piloted in several community focus groups. (Posted: 8/5/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: Somali Family Service

Healthy Environments Against Tobacco (H.E.A.T.) - Multi Unit Housing Project
Vista Community Clinic's HEAT Team has begun their new Multi Unit Housing Project. The project focuses on policymaking that bans smoking in multi unit housing complexes both in the units and in common areas. HEAT is working with housing complex managers and owners to determine the feasibility of such a move as well as polling residents to determine the need. IPH services includes modifying and/or creating data collection instruments, consulting on data collection techniques and processes, creating a database for entry of public opinion poll data, and analyzing the aggregate data. (Posted: 8/5/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: Vista Community Clinic

Health Environments Against Tobacco (HEAT) - North County Transit Project
Vista Community Clinic's HEAT Team was recently awarded a grant by the State of California's Tobacco Control Section to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke in North San Diego County. The project is focusing on the North County Transit District (NCTD) (including the Breeze bus, Coaster train, and Sprinter light rail system). HEAT is working on creating smoke-free transit stops at all NCTD locations. The IPH is be responsible for creating an evaluation strategy, modifying and/or creating data collection instruments, consulting on data collection techniques and processes, as well as analyzing data to create reports for multiple audiences. (Posted: 8/5/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: Vista Community Clinic

HIV Prevention Programs Evaluations
The San Diego County HIV, STD and Hepatitis Branch offers a myriad of HIV, STD and Hepatitis Services in San Diego County under the Health and Human Services Agency, Public Health Services. In an ongoing relationship, the HHSB has hired the IPH to help determine standardized outcomes, update program forms to collect outcome information, create a database to collect program outcomes, and analyze program data for all HHSB-funded HIV Education and Prevention providers in San Diego County.

In 2006, the IPH conducted a workshop to help providers learn how to measure program outcomes and decide what outcomes should be measured. The HHSB used the information from this workshop to institute standardized outcomes for all HIV Education and Prevention providers and, in 2007, the IPH and HHSB worked together to add the outcome information to the data collection forms. In 2007 the IPH created the POD (Prevention Outcome Database) which allows providers to enter outcome data and then reports out the data in the format needed for the quarterly reports.

In 2006 and again in 2008, the IPH analyzed data from all HHSB-funded HIV Education and Prevention providers in San Diego County. Reports were produced that allowed the HHSB to more fully understand the clients served and to learn if there were gaps in the prevention services in the County. While these data have been entered into a statewide database for a number of years, the 2008 analysis will represent the first time client characteristics have been described and reported. (Posted: 8/5/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: County of San Diego HIV, STD and Hepatitis Branch of Public Health Services; The San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Community Center.

MAI (Minority AIDS Initiative) Integrated Care Coordination Program
HIV/AIDS has been recognized by the Federal government to be a severe and on-going health crisis in racial and ethnic minority communities. In response, Family Health Services of San Diego (FHCSD) has developed a program of integrated coordinated care for extremely high risk HIV/AIDS patients and has contracted with the IPH to assist FHCSD in evaluating the effectiveness of their newly established program. IPH activities include assisting FHCSD staff to compile and modify existing HIV service-related monitoring and evaluation instruments, updating tools for the proposed program and taking the lead in identifying and creating Quality Improvement (QI) goals for each year of the program. (Posted: 8/5/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: Family Health Centers of San Diego

Peer Abuse Prevention Program
The Peer Abuse Prevention Program, which is designed to reduce the incidence of bullying and improve students' feelings of safety and support, is being implemented at several middle schools in the Sweetwater Union High School District. The program aims to fight bullying with comprehensive education and training measures ranging from school-wide assemblies to parent and teacher training sessions to individual lessons for bullies and victims alike. Two different departments of the IPH will work on this project. Dr. Audrey Hokoda is directing the intervention and the IPH Evaluation unit, working with Dr. Hokoda, will create an evaluation strategy, validated tools to assess attitudes, behaviors and knowledge about bullying, coordinate data collection and entry efforts with Dr. Hokoda's SDSU student interns, and analyze the data for report writing and manuscript preparation. (Posted: 8/05/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: Sweetwater Union High School District

POMS (Performance Outcomes Measurement System) On-Call Evaluators
The Children and Families Commission of Orange County (CFCOC) was established in 1999 to administer funds that promote, support and improve the early development of children from the prenatal stage to five years of age. The CFCOC contracts with a number of independent "on-call" evaluators to evaluate specific programs they fund to learn about the operations and outcomes of these initiatives and to guide program design. The IPH was approved as an "on-call" evaluator through 2009 and has thus far completed two CFCOC program evaluations:

Asthma and Chronic Lung Disease (ACLD) Program
The Asthma and Chronic Lung Disease (ACLD) Program is a joint effort of the Children's Hospital of Orange County and the University of California, Irvine Medical Center. The mission of the ACLD Program is to optimize the health, well-being, physical performance and school readiness of children age 0-5 years in Orange County with asthma and chronic lung disease. The IPH conducted a one-time evaluation of this program in 2007 in order to describe the program operation and outcomes.

Metabolic Disorders Program (MDP)
Children's Hospital of Orange County and the University of California, Irvine Medical Center collaboratively coordinate the care of children aged 0-5 with metabolic disorders in Orange County through the Metabolic Disorders Program (MDP). Similar to the ACLD evaluation, the IPH conducted a one-time evaluation of the MDP program in 2007 in order to describe the program operation and outcomes. (Posted: 8/05/08)

Collaborative Agency/Agencies: The Children and Families Commission of Orange County

Project Basta!
Planning an Incest/Sexual Violence Prevention Initiative in San Diego's Logan Community Family Health Centers of San Diego (FHCSD), in conjunction with resident and organizational partners, are developing and will implement an incest/sexual violence prevention project in San Diego's Barrio Logan/Logan Heights community, with a focus on system and social/cultural norms change to reduce sexual violence and improve family and community health. The IPH is providing the academic resources for a variety of activities some of which are the review of current clinical practices regarding child abuse education, prevention and treatment, identifying new curricula, protocols and other guidelines for education and support groups that need to be developed, preparing a policy/issue paper on current clinical practices and the review of existing child welfare and criminal justice system policies and practices related to identification of potential child sexual abuse. (Posted: 11/17/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: Family Health Centers of San Diego

Project Empower
A local collaborative - comprised of the San Diego Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting Program (SANDAPP), The Salvation Army Haven, Home Start, Inc., the IPH, and teens served by SANDAPP and the Haven - developed Project Empower, a mastery-based prevention program, to decrease child abuse and neglect among teen moms, increase child safety, and improve child well-being. Key strategies include improving bonding and attachment skills and providing long-term case management support whether or not mothers complete the 24-week program. The project promotes healthy behaviors, addresses behavioral risk factors related to child abuse and neglect, and strengthens the relationship between teen mothers and their children. The IPH is conducting the evaluation. (Posted: 8/01/05)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: San Diego Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting Program; Salvation Army; Home Start, Inc.

Proyecto, Salud y Esperanza Project
Family Health Centers of San Diego was awarded a grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a new obesity reduction project: Proyecto Salud y Esperanza. The project focuses on Latina women of childbearing age with a BMI of 25 or higher. The primary objective is to involve women in a program consisting of three major components: a physical activity (Zumba) component, a health and wellness component (yoga), and a health and well being class component. As the Independent Evaluator, the IPH has created a the final evaluation plan, developed evaluation tools for each component of the project (logs, surveys, intake forms, questionnaires, etc.), created a project database to track all participants, trained project staff on data collection and entry, and will continue to monitor and analyze data. (Posted: 8/05/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: Family Health Centers of San Diego

Quality of Life Survey
The Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation (JCNI) was launched in 1995 by the Jacobs Family Foundation to develop and implement new and collaborative ways of creating community change through entrepreneurial projects, hands-on learning relationships, and the creative investment of resources. In 2001 and 2007, JCNI conducted a large scale door-to-door data collection effort to assess the quality of life of community residents living in the Diamond Neighborhoods of southeastern San Diego. The IPH is providing advanced statistical analysis of this data to be presented through comprehensive reports to the agency and community members. (Posted: 8/05/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation

Rescue Mission Outpatient Clinic Evaluation
The mission of the San Diego Rescue Mission (SDRM) is to provide food for the hungry, shelter for the homeless, rest for the weary and hope, love and faith to those seeking a different way of life. The Rescue Mission has an Outpatient Therapy Clinic that provides outpatient therapy for clients who are homeless or nearly homeless. The IPH will conduct a literature review and implement an evaluation of the clinic. (Posted: 11/17/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: San Diego Rescue Mission

Safe Schools Unit
The IPH is currently assisting the Safe Schools Unit of the San Diego County Office of Education with the evaluation of their youth mentoring and violence prevention programs. IPH activities include database development and technical assistance. (Posted: 8/05/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: San Diego County Office of Education

San Diego County Homeless Data Advisory Board Consultation
Since its inception, the Regional Task Force on the Homeless has developed a centralized system for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information on homelessness, published plans and special reports on a wide variety of topics relating to the causes, conditions, and responses to homelessness and assisted homeless agencies and facilities in obtaining public and private funds and non-cash resources. Currently, the Task Force is developing a standardized data collection system for tracking homeless clients. IPH will assist on this project the objective of which is a scientifically rigorous, written, and transparent methodology for counting homelessness in San Diego County that has the understanding and consensus of the major stakeholders in the County including homeless service providers, funding sources, city and county representatives, and homeless persons. (Posted: 8/05/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: Regional Task Force on the Homeless

Services for Survivors of Torture Program
Survivors of Torture (SOT), International has a carefully planned holistic model of health, mental health and social services. It offers many programs and encourages clients to choose the ones they need. In this way, the program empowers torture survivors and their families to reclaim their lives. Services for Survivors are offered through community partners, ensuring high quality, geographical convenience, diverse providers, specialty skills and a chance to integrate into the mainstream of community life. Services are free to clients, thanks to funders and supporters of SOT. The IPH is working with SOT in conducting an evaluation of the "Services for Survivors of Torture Program." (Posted: 11/10/06)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: Survivors of Torture, International

Somali Bantu Needs Assessment
The Somali Bantu Community of San Diego is conducting a health needs assessment in the Somali Bantu community. Focus groups and interviews were conducted with community residents and social service and health care providers. The IPH will be designing needs assessment tools for youth, adolescents, adults, and elders by gender and service providers developed in collaboration with community agencies. Additionally a literature review will be conducted as well as two trainings for volunteers, who will be conducting focus groups and analyzing a portion of the data. Data Analysis and Reporting. (Posted: 11/17/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: De la Cruz and Associates, International Rescue Committee, Somali Bantu Community of San Diego

Steps to Change
The Steps to Change project, initially a demonstration project funded by the CDC, has been operated by Family Health Centers of San Diego (FHCSD) since 1998. Using a harm reduction model, the project provides outreach and prevention case management services to injection drug users and their families with the goal of reducing the transmission of HIV and STDs. The IPH has worked with FHCSD since the program's inception to develop and modify the evaluation plan according to project needs. The current evaluation activities include monitoring data entry in San Diego County Health and Human Services' web-based system, analyzing data from this system to produce numbers for quarterly reports, updating the data collection tools and systems as needed, and analyzing outcome data on a yearly basis. Since July 2004, the IPH has been training staff in the evaluation system and providing on-going technical assistance for the data entry and collection process. (Posted: 4/01/05)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: Family Health Centers of San Diego

Survivors of Torture, International
Survivors of Torture, International is a nonprofit organization dedicated to caring for survivors of politically-motivated torture and their families who live in San Diego County. IPH activities include database development, staff training, coordination of data collection through community-based partners, data entry and analysis, and reporting of evaluation results. (Posted: 8/05/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: Survivors of Torture, International

Evidence-Based Public Health Practice

API Community Health Network in San Diego
This project aims to establish an API health network that highlights and is driven by grassroots participatory action research that will seek to understand the differences and commonalities in health beliefs and behaviors among API groups. With this acquired understanding the project will develop collaborative intervention programs to enable the API groups to access health care and information effectively. In addition to providing training on conducting focus groups, the IPH will help to develop a resource directory of API resources and services in San Diego and provide consultation to the network to encourage research on healthcare issues that pertain to API's and to interface with a network of researchers interested in collaboration on API healthcare concerns. (Posted: 11/17/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: Operation Samahan

Center for Cancer Quality Assurance and Professional Education
In April 2006, the Center for Cancer Quality Assurance and Profession Education (QAPE) was established by uniting two IPH State of California Cancer Detection Section (CDS) contracts under one: The Cancer Clinical Services Quality Assurance Project (QAP) and the Center for Health Professional Education and Training (CHPET). However, the goal of improving breast and cervical cancer screening for California women by evaluating and developing training on quality assurance issues remains unchanged. QAPE will continue to play a significant role in providing evidence-based evaluation and education services and professional training activities and resources for Primary Care Providers involved in breast and cervical cancer screening throughout California and the nation. The services provided by the IPH include: 1) plan and implement Clinical Breast Exam Trainings and other trainings as determined by CDS; 2) develop, implement, and oversee evaluation plans for all trainings; 3) develop and/or implement new training curriculum; 4) maintain and enhance a website for primary care health professionals focused on quality assurance and professional education; 5) conduct focused medical record abstractions and/or provider interviews; 6) develop, build, enhance, and maintain a web-based computerized provider quality assurance site review application; and 7) identify and/or develop/revise appropriate patient educational materials. (Posted: 11/14/06)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: California Department of Health Services, Cancer Detection Section

Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA)
The IPH has partnered with the Scripps Translational Science Institute to lead the Community Engagement Section of the NIH-funded Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA). The mission of this section is to engage local health care practitioners and South Bay community members to collaborate on community-based participatory research and increase participation in clinical research. The IPH will assist in the creation of a comprehensive, participatory strategy to increase understanding of clinical research benefits and opportunities, facilitate the participation of traditionally underrepresented communities in clinical research, and increase community members’ awareness of local research outcomes. (Posted: 12/18/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: Scripps Translational Science Institute

Data Navigator Pilot Project
The IPH is staffing and providing expertise to a new CA Department of Public Health initiative, the Data Navigator Pilot Project. The project's goal is to improve the collection and documentation of screening, and diagnostic follow-up results, for women with abnormal breast and cervical cancer screening in the State's Cancer Detection Programs: Every Woman Counts! Improvement of the documentation of screening and diagnostic follow-up results will ensure that quality assurance reports, (the CDC's Minimum Data Elements or MDE reports as one example), will most accurately reflect the cancer screening services provided to California's women. (Posted: 08/05/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: California Department of Health Services Cancer Detection Section

San Diego County Office of Violence Prevention- an IPH Focus Project!
The Office of Violence Prevention (OVP) was established in 1994 by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors with the mission of promoting healthy individuals and families through the development of violence prevention programs. The IPH was awarded a multi-year contract to support OVP programs, including the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team, school-based teen relationship violence programming, and preventing children's exposure to violence. (Posted: 08/05/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: San Diego County Health & Human Services' Office of Violence Prevention

STEP (Student Team Empowerment Program)- an IPH Focus Project!

Collaborative Agencies: San Diego Youth and Community Services (SDYCS); Pacific Beach Middle School; Roosevelt Middle School; Office of Minority Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Professional Education and Training

Center for Cancer Quality Assurance and Professional Education
In April 2006, the Center for Cancer Quality Assurance and Profession Education (QAPE) was established by uniting two IPH State of California Cancer Detection Section (CDS) contracts under one: The Cancer Clinical Services Quality Assurance Project (QAP) and the Center for Health Professional Education and Training (CHPET). However, the goal of improving breast and cervical cancer screening for California women by evaluating and developing training on quality assurance issues remains unchanged. QAPE will continue to play a significant role in providing evidence-based evaluation and education services and professional training activities and resources for Primary Care Providers involved in breast and cervical cancer screening throughout California and the nation. The services provided by the IPH include: 1) plan and implement Clinical Breast Exam Trainings and other trainings as determined by CDS; 2) develop, implement, and oversee evaluation plans for all trainings; 3) develop and/or implement new training curriculum; 4) maintain and enhance a website for primary care health professionals focused on quality assurance and professional education; 5) conduct focused medical record abstractions and/or provider interviews; 6) develop, build, enhance, and maintain a web-based computerized provider quality assurance site review application; and 7) identify and/or develop/revise appropriate patient educational materials. (Posted: 11/14/06)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: California Department of Health Services, Cancer Detection Section

National Resource Center for Safe Aging
The National Resource Center for Safe Aging (NRCSA) is a collaborative effort between the IPH, SDSU's Department of Gerontology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is funded by the CDC and its National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. The mission of NRCSA is to increase awareness and knowledge of injuries among older Americans by providing reliable and useful information to public health professionals, and also to older adults, caregivers, family members and others who share their concerns. Its primary focus is to create and sustain an online community of public health and senior care professionals whose work involves teaching and promoting safety and safe practices among the elderly. (Posted: (4/01/05)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Online Emergency Preparedness Training Modules
Pacific EMPRINTS offers courses on a variety of subjects, ranging from bioterrorism concerns such as Anthrax, Plague and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, to emerging infectious diseases such as Avian Influenza.
Collaborative Agency: Pacific Emergency Management, Preparedness and Response Network and Training System

Pacific Public Health Training Center
The Pacific Public Health Training Center (PPHTC) is a combined effort of the four accredited Schools of Public Health in California and the University of Hawaii's School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene. The Center's mission is to develop and maintain a skilled public health workforce in California, Hawaii and the US Associated Pacific Islands in order to support and enhance individual and community health. The Center collaborates with strategic partners to provide training that is innovative, effective, flexible in methodology, and accessible to our constituents. (Posted: 4/01/05)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Los Angeles; San Diego State University; University of Hawai'i

Terrorism Web-Based Training Modules
The IPH developed several sets of online multimedia training modules meant to increase public awareness and understanding of terrorism threats in today's communities, and encourage appropriate preventive and reactive actions. San Diego County Office of Emergency Services worked with the Institute to produce training modules customized to the County's needs. The modules are offered in both English and Spanish languages. These training modules were later adapted to meet the needs of Santa Barbara County (see www.countyofsb.org/terrorism/SlideShow). The IPH also worked with Orange County to develop these modules for the City of Anaheim and the surrounding area. (Posted: 11/10/06)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: Office of Emergency Services, San Diego County; Orange County and City of Anaheim

WISEWOMAN Program
California's WISEWOMAN Program is called Heart of the Family or Corazón de la Familia. The program's goal is reducing the risk of morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular disease in Latino women who are also enrolled in Cancer Detection Programs: Every Woman Counts. Working with key informants from the WISEWOMAN Health Workers community, the IPH is enhancing and modifying the WISEWOMAN Spanish language version of the New Leaf Curriculum and, in addition, revising existing assessment tools. One key objective of this collaboration between the Cancer Detection Section, Centers for Disease Control and the IPH are publishable articles reporting on the WISEWOMAN study in California. (Posted: 08/05/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: California Department of Health Services Cancer Detection Section

Maternal and Child Health Initiative

The California Endowment Foundation MCHI Core Support (Formerly Re-Establishment of the MCH Program)
The MCH Initiative was launched in 1999 with a grant to the Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) from the Alliance Healthcare Foundation. In 2003 funding was received from the California Endowment to supplement the Alliance grant. The initial goal of this initiative was to re-establish a Division of Maternal and Child Health at the GSPH. However, the focus of the Initiative was modified over the last several years and has been redirected and broadened to include three primary activities: Community Engagement and Service, Research and Education. The funding is now serving as core support to expand IPH involvement in the MCH community. (Posted: 11/10/06)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: The California Endowment

Neonatal Quality Improvement Initiative Planning and Implementation
Children’s Medical Services (CMS) Branch and California Children’s Hospital Association (CCHA) are jointly sponsoring a statewide Neonatal Quality Improvement Initiative (NQI), which includes an experienced multidisciplinary project team, to improve neonatal care by working toward eliminating catheter related blood stream infections in NICUs. IPH is contributing to the design, implementation and evaluation of this quality initiative to reduce acquired infections and improve clinical care for neonates. (Posted: 11/10/06)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: California Children’s Services, State of California

Nutrition and Physical Activity Program
The Imperial Beach Health Center (IBHC) Nutrition and Physical Activity Program is a new program created by IBHC to treat childhood overweight and obesity among individuals who currently have no viable options for those services. The program's goal is to help children become physically active, eat healthy foods and develop healthy lifestyles for lifelong fitness. IPH will develop the evaluation framework, help design data collection instruments in conjunction with each topical expert (exercise physiologist, pediatrician, health educator, nutritionist, and behaviorist), analyze data, and prepare quarterly and a year end report. IBHC staff and pediatricians will be involved in the program evaluation and will provide important insight into data collection and program objectives. (Posted: 08/05/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: Imperial Beach Health Center

The Primary Prevention of Childhood Overweight and Obesity
IPH will provide pediatricians with culturally appropriate health behavior messages for Latino and African-American parents of newborn children in order to address the rising rate of childhood obesity among these populations in San Diego County. (Posted: 08/05/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: The California Endowment

San Diego Community Outreach & Engagement
National Children's Study (NCS)
As the NCS San Diego Community Outreach & Engagement Coordinator, IPH Research Associate Ms. Diana Simmes is coordinating the efforts to increase awareness and support for the study in San Diego building upon established relationships with community based organizations and key stakeholders from across the county.

The National Children's Study (NCS) is a landmark 20+ year nationwide longitudinal study examining the effects of environmental influences on children's health and development. The study is funded by a consortium of federal agencies and will follow more than 100,000 children across the US from before birth to age 21. (Posted: 8/21/08)
Collaborative Agency/Agencies: UCSD; First 5 Commission of San Diego County

Welcome Home Baby- an IPH Focus Project!
Collaborative Agency: Palomar Pomerado Health

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Updated: 12/18/08