# Complexity: Innovations in Promoting Health and Safety (CIPHS)

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2021 · $262,207

## Abstract

7. PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
 The U.S. faces the triple threat of explosive growth in chronic illness incidence, persistent challenges to
improve population health and safety, and rising healthcare expenditures. Given this triple threat, it is
imperative that we train future nurse scientists to develop transformative interventions that promote safe and
healthy behaviors that will enable individuals and populations to thrive at all points of the health-illness
continuum. Promoting health and safety involves modification of multiple complex factors that impact health.
Thus, the proposed T32 will prepare nurse scientists to develop and test interventions to improve health and
safety in the context of high complexity.
 The goal of this new T32 application, Complexity: Innovations in Promoting Health and Safety (CIPHS),
is to educate 8 pre-and 2 postdoctoral trainees to become independent scientists in promoting health and
safety across the wellness-illness continuum. The program is designed to train nurse scientists in novel
research approaches to: 1) investigate the complex array of personal, social, and environmental factors that
impact the health and safety of individuals and populations across the wellness-illness continuum to inform
the design and testing of interventions; 2) design and test innovative approaches to promote health and
safety and to prevent development of chronic conditions at the individual and population levels; and 3)
design and test innovative approaches to promote health and safety among those with chronic conditions to
enable them to live well with chronic illness. Scientific activities of trainees will be anchored to the context of
multiple physical, environmental, and social determinants of health. The training will focus on three
pedagogic competencies regarding innovations in promoting health and safety in the context of complexity:
1) understanding theory and methods of nursing science; 2) conducting nursing science in both a supporting
team-based role as well as in an independent leading role; and 3) ongoing continuous development of
oneself as a scientific scholar. The training is organized by four main activities: course work, research
experience, mentoring, and professional socialization. Trainees will have an individualized development plan
and a three-member mentorship team composed of a Primary Mentor, a methods/analytic mentor, and a
faculty from a second discipline complimentary to the Primary Mentor. The program aligns with priorities of
the NINR 2016 draft strategic plan of 1) building the science of promoting health and 2) enhancing healthy
behaviors and promoting functional health and wellbeing across chronic conditions.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10205177
- **Project number:** 5T32NR016914-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** MARITA G. TITLER
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $262,207
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-07-01 → 2022-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10205177

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10205177, Complexity: Innovations in Promoting Health and Safety (CIPHS) (5T32NR016914-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10205177. Licensed CC0.

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