Featured Projects

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Avanzando Caminos

Share your cancer story with the Avanzando Caminos study team, and help us learn more about the many influences on life after cancer!

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Quitxt Quit Smoking Text Messages!

IHPR’s Quitxt program is a free texting service on your phone with online support in English or Spanish to help South Texans quit smoking.

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Avanzando Center

The Avanzando Center is pioneering innovative methods to promote health and improve cancer outcomes in South Texas and beyond.

Other current projects

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Redes en Accion

IHPR’s national research network works to reduce cancer through multi-site interventions, researcher training, and community outreach.

Creando Conexiones: Cancer Health Research Agenda

This project is developing a cancer research agenda in South Texas, led by priorities identified by local cancer survivors, caregivers, and community members.

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CONNECTOR Program

The IHPR has launched launch a community engagement center on heart health, thanks to funding from the American Heart Association and RWJF.

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Survivorship: Improving Mind and Physical Activity (IMPACT)

Improving Mind and Physical ACTivity (IMPACT) tests how different types of exercise—like yoga—best improve cancer survivors’ fitness, quality of life and molecular indicators of future cancer risk.

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Rx for Better Breast Health

Rx for Better Breast Health is a study to teach breast cancer survivors how certain foods may reduce the risk of cancer recurrence.

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Quitxt: Bilingual Quit-Smoking Text Messaging Service

Quitxt is a free service on your phone with text messages and online support in English or Spanish to help South Texans quit smoking for good.

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Breast Cancer: Testing Video-Based Clinical Trial Recruitment

The study hypothesizes that those who receive an interactive, technology-infused communications intervention will increase self-efficacy and informed decision-making to enter breast cancer clinical trials.

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Training/Mentoring Opportunities

Through its projects and researchers, the IHPR offers training/mentoring opportunities to high-school and college students through junior faculty in the areas of research methods, health promotion, and more. If you are interested in participating in IHPR’s training program, complete the Prospective Trainee Survey.

Past Projects

Improving Health

IHPR has a historical inventory of health research projects in cancer, chronic disease, healthy lifestyles, obesity, and more. For details, email Cliff Despres at despres@uthscsa.edu.

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