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Letter from the Director Winter 2019
Jan 14, 2019
Happy New Year to the growing number of community members, students and investigators affiliated with the Center for Health Research (CHR). We look forward to more opportunities to connect with you in the coming months.
We hope that you are able to attend some of the talks in our Science of Health Disparities seminar series. As you’ll read in the newsletter, we have a series of outstanding investigators and practitioners coming to Cal Poly to present their research on how and why health disparities exist and steps we can take to enact positive change.
CHR investigators are also launching several new projects in the area of minority health, including studying the health consequences of immigrant enclaves and the use of a mobile health clinic to increase access to care among low income women and infants.
We are grateful for your collaboration and efforts to promote access to health for all in our community and beyond. Best wishes for a healthy and productive 2019.
-Suzanne Phelan, Director, Center for Health Research
Summer 2018 Quarterly
Jul 10, 2018
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Fall 2017 Quarterly
Dec 4, 2017
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Summer 2017 Quarterly
Jul 3, 2017
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Winter 2017 Quarterly
Mar 23, 2017
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Fall 2016 Quarterly
Nov 23, 2016
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Spring 2016 Quarterly
Oct 25, 2016
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Winter 2016 Quarterly
Oct 25, 2016
Click here to read STRIDE's Winter 2016 newsletter, now renamed to Center for Health Research!
Fall 2015 Quarterly
Dec 1, 2015
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Dr. Taylor receives Cal Poly's first Learn By Doing Scholar Award
May 11, 2015
Kevin Taylor, Kinesiology Department Chair, received the first Cal Poly Learn By Doing Scholar Award for his published research on the STRIDE, now renamed to Center for Health Research, program, Activity4All. The new award recognizes outstanding faculty scholarship in Learn By Doing.
The article for which Taylor received his award shares his research on Activity4All, a Center for Health Research program in which students collaborate to design equipment to enable physical activity for people with disabilities. In the article, “Learning Design through the Lens of Service: A Qualitative Study,” Taylor and co-authors Dr. David Hey, Dr. Brian Self, Dr. Lynne Slivovsky, and Dr. James Widmann evaluated the impact of Activity4All on student learning. As they published in the Journal for Service Learning in Engineering (v. 9 n. 1, Spring 2014) article, Taylor and his co-authors studied the effects of the design project experience by focusing on learning engineering design, student motivation, and student views of people with disabilities. They also searched for student identified benefits and obstacles in collaborating with an interdisciplinary team.
“Your findings, including your documented discoveries about how to improve the design experience for students, will support better Learn by Doing experiences for future students,” Anna Gold, Dean of Library Services and Chair, Learn by Doing Scholar Committee, said in the award letter.
The Learn By Doing Scholar Award committee will be hosting an award ceremony planned at this year’s “More than a Motto” reception on May 15, from 4:10-6p.m., in the Universal Art Gallery.