Projects
Featured Projects
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!
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.
Avanzando Center
The Avanzando Center is pioneering innovative methods to promote health and improve cancer outcomes in South Texas and beyond.
Other current projects
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.
CONNECTOR Program
The IHPR has launched launch a community engagement center on heart health, thanks to funding from the American Heart Association and RWJF.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.