College Research Centers
- Center for Childhood Obesity Research
- www.hhdev.psu.edu/ccor
- Leann L. Birch, Director
- The conduct of research to provide the evidence base to develop successful childhood obesity prevention and treatment programs. A primary focus is on programs that prevent the development of obesity during the first years of life.
- Center for Health Care and Policy Research
- Pamela Farley Short, Director
- www.hhdev.psu.edu/chcpr
- The mission of the Center for Health Care Policy and Research is to create and disseminate new scientific knowledge that will help private and public decision-makers to develop cost-effective services and programs that improve people's health.
- Center for Sport Concussion Research and Service
- Semyon Slobounov, Director
- concussion.psu.edu
- The Center for Sport Concussion Research and Service is currently home to one of the leading facilities focused on Traumatic Brain Injuries in athletics.
- General Clinical Research Center
- www.gcrc.psu.edu
- Facilitating the transfer of basic medical knowledge to the clinical arena, to elucidate pathogenic mechanisms of disease, and to develop strategies for health promotion and disease prevention.
- Center for Healthy Aging
- healthyaging.psu.edu
- Martin Sliwinski, Director
- Striving to carry out research, instruction, and community-service programs of the highest quality and to make those resources available to the Commonwealth and the nation.
- Methodology Center
- methodology.psu.edu
- Linda M. Collins, Director
- The Methodology Center is an interdisciplinary research center that conducts original research on issues in statistics, research design, and measurement emerging in the prevention and treatment of problem behaviors, particularly drug abuse. The Center also applys the new methods developed in empirical research and disseminates new methods to prevention and treatment scientists.
- Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development
- www.prevention.psu.edu
- Ed Smith, Interim Director
- Promoting the well-being of children and youth and to reduce the prevalence of high-risk behaviors and poor outcomes in children, families and communities.
