Current Projects

Summary: This program trains individuals in community health work and helps place them in internships across Colorado. Three quarters are supported with job placement assistance and a quarter are placed in CHW apprenticeships. We work across an extensive network of more than two dozen partners including healthcare organizations, government agencies, academic institutions to provide field placements and job opportunities for trainees.

Role: Site Principal Investigator

Summary: This project focuses on creating and delivering training to cancer navigators and community health workers across Colorado.

Role: Principal Investigator

Summary: The purpose of this project is to engage LGBT+ organizations in Colorado as community-based public health champions to address LGBT+ health disparities by providing leadership and high-quality tobacco control programming.

Role: Principal Investigator

Summary: This projects works with patient navigators at UCHealth, as well as community members, to build consensus around the role of patient navigators and how they impact patient care. We design job descriptions, standardized work-flows, and efficient and effective strategies to track the outcomes that matter to patients and their caregivers. We also train navigators to educate patients and their families about clinical trials.

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Summary: This clinical trial compares the effects of an integrated case management intervention to the effects of usual care practices on improving timeliness and quality of care outcomes for rural lung cancer and head-and-neck cancer patients.

Role: Site Principal Investigator

Summary: This randomized controlled trial assesses the effectiveness of a stepped care intervention compared to usual care in reducing disparities in mental health outcomes of underserved lung and head-and-neck cancer patients and their caregivers.

Role: Site Principal Investigator

Summary: This project aims to help prevent cervical cancer by providing education about human papillomavirus (HPV) and the HPV vaccine. The program also provides outreach, through patient navigation, to young adult women (19-26 years old) across multiple urban and rural counties.

Role: Site Principal Investigator

Summary: This project provided an intervention to prevent cervical cancer in young adult Latina women (19-26 years old) who had not completed all three doses of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine series. The project included patient navigation and an intervention targeting barriers at the patient, provider, and systems levels.

Role: Site Principal Investigator

Summary: This project pilots a pediatric community-based weight management intervention designed specifically for and with Latino immigrant families. This pilot includes two sites—Colorado and Maryland. In Colorado, the pilot is being conducted with an immigrant-serving community organization in Aurora. 

Role: MPI: DeCamp/Polk

Summary: More information to come. 

Role: MPI: Klaus/Kwan

Summary: This project aims to disseminate an effective school-based asthma program from the Denver Metro area to school districts across Colorado. The program focuses on reducing disparities in asthma outcomes for low-income and racial/ethnic minority children. 

Role: MPI: Szefler/Cicutto/Huebschmann

Summary: This project evaluated telehealth use at Children’s Hospital Colorado for families whose healthcare communication is in languages other than English using electronic health record data and interviews with clinical staff and patients/families. 

Role: MPI: DeCamp/Thompson

Summary: More information to come. 

Role: Principal Investigator/Lead Faculty

Summary: This is a translational research project to develop and evaluate a social marketing campaign that combats stigma around substance use in rural Colorado.

Role: Principal Investigator

More information to come. 

Role: Lead Evaluator/Co-Investigator

More information to come.

Role: Community Engagement and Mix Methods Implementation Scientist/Analyst.