# Prevention Research Center of Michigan

> **NIH ALLCDC U48** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2022 · $749,845

## Abstract

The Prevention Research Center of Michigan (PRC/MI) will build on our 20 years of experience partnering with
local organizations, residents and institutions in Flint, Michigan to create a safer and healthier futures through
high quality community-engaged applied public health research. Our Center is a partnership between the
University of Michigan, School of Public Health (UMSPH), Michigan State University, Division of Public Health
based in Flint, Kettering University and the Healthy Flint Research Coordinating Center, (HFRCC) a coalition of
CBOs and Universities created in response to the influx of researchers in the Flint community to build
community for equitable academic-community partnerships. We will strive for excellence in research,
translation and dissemination, and training by: 1) conducting rigorous community-based research to adapt,
implement and test a Health Promotion Through Environmental Design (HPTED) intervention; 2) translate and
disseminate PRC/MI research to academic, practice, policy maker, and community audiences; 4) provide
training in applied public health research for students, public health practitioners, community residents, and
researchers; 5) strengthen the infrastructure of the PRC/MI as a resource for communities throughout the state
and the nation. Our Core Research Project, Health Promotion Through Environmental Design (HPTED): A
Transformative Approach for Community Engagement and Health Equity aims to study the process of
engaging residents in environmental change to reduce heath disparities, increase heath equity, and improve
health. We will leverage existing studies, multidisciplinary research experience and expertise, multi-university
collaboration, and community partnerships to adapt and evaluate health promotion through environmental
design (HPTED). HPTED is an adaptation of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) which
is an approach from criminology that involves both physical and social components to prevent crime. Our focus
will be on health promotion and will incorporate health issues and fundamental causes (Phelan et al., 2010).
We will conduct a block group randomized design to test our conceptual model. We also study implementation
of HPTED to identify key ingredients for success. Our Specific Aims are: 1) study the process for adapting and
piloting HPTED training for neighborhood residents; 2) study the implementation effectiveness of the new
HPTED intervention and how implementation outcomes may be related to health outcomes; 3) test the
effectiveness of HPTED in a block group randomized design on violence reduction, healthy built environment,
and community empowerment, and direct effects on psychological and behavioral health; and 4) investigate if
violence reduction, healthy built environment, and community empowerment are a mechanism by which
HPTED improves psychological and behavioral health (i.e., indirect effects). We expect evidence from both our
implementation and effective...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10438154
- **Project number:** 5U48DP006397-04
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** Marc A Zimmerman
- **Activity code:** U48 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** ALLCDC
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $749,845
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-09-30 → 2024-09-29

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10438154

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10438154, Prevention Research Center of Michigan (5U48DP006397-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10438154. Licensed CC0.

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