The center encourages involvement in research by identifying research opportunities and providing support in developing grant applications. It provides research and statistical services, monitors financial status of grants and research endowments, and provides focus for the research activities of the School by identifying research priorities.
The research efforts of the School are consistent with its overall philosophy: protection, promotion, and preservation of human health through the harmonious development of one's mental, physical, and spiritual resources. It is the School's policy to encourage those research activities that are especially relevant to its mission and that utilize the natural abilities, special interests, and professional expertise of its faculty members.
School of Public Health researchers concentrate on projects that examine the effects on health of various aspects of lifestyle, including personal and cultural habits. Of special importance is research directed toward those aspects of disease prevention in which health may be related to individual choices of life habits and lifestyle. The School makes special efforts to encourage research projects that are most likely to enrich the instructional program. In developing research projects, faculty members carefully consider how to encourage student involvement.
The goal is to bring mutual benefit to the students' academic development and to the purposes of research. A wide variety of research methodologies are employed. These provide students with valuable experience through exposure to a broad spectrum of the techniques of scientific investigation. Substantive research findings are incorporated regularly into the teaching program.
Last Revised: Mon, Mar 26, 2007
