# Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Center

> **NIH ALLCDC U48** · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · 2022 · $2,439,946

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
In the past three decades, we have learned much about how to prevent and control chronic diseases including
cancer and depression; yet stark disparities remain, particularly among low-income adults and adults of color.
The Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC) at the University of Washington seeks to eliminate these
disparities. Our work focuses on cancer prevention and control, mental health and physical activity of older
adults, and workplace health promotion. HPRC's three evidence-based programs are collectively implemented
in more than 45 states, in partnership with strategic translation partners who reach and serve populations
experiencing health disparities. The three programs are EnhanceFitness, a group-based physical activity
program for older adults that has been implemented in 46 states and reached more than 80,000 older adults;
Workplace Solutions, a suite of workplace health promotion programs that has been delivered to employers in
more than 40 states and reached more than 8,000,000 employees and dependents; and the Program to
Encourage Active and Rewarding Lives (PEARLS), a depression management program for older adults and
the focus of our Core Research Project, which has reached more than 6,200 older adults in 25 states. In this
proposal, we address six interrelated specific aims, three for our Center and three for our Core Research
Project. Our Center aims include reducing health disparities through translation of HPRC's evidence-based
programs into practice in new settings reaching underserved populations; building local, state, and national
capacity in applied prevention research; and conducting a community-engaged Core Research Project aimed
at large-scale implementation of PEARLS in two states. The proposed Center aims will improve health equity
among middle-aged and older adults through translating HPRC's programs with partners and settings that
reach populations experiencing health disparities. Our Core Research Project aims are to develop a
community-engaged PEARLS translation strategy that meets the needs of organizations that that serve older
adults experiencing disparities related to race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, rural area of residence, and lack
of access to depression care; test the translation strategy in a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomized controlled
trial in two states; and collaborate with CDC and the PRC Network to disseminate and translate our findings. If
successful, our approaches have the potential to improve health equity for middle-aged and older adults
experiencing health disparities, and to generate replicable implementation and translation strategies that public
health practitioners and researchers can apply to other evidence-based programs.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10438505
- **Project number:** 5U48DP006398-04
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
- **Principal Investigator:** Margaret A Hannon
- **Activity code:** U48 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** ALLCDC
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $2,439,946
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-09-30 → 2024-09-29

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10438505

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10438505, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Center (5U48DP006398-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10438505. Licensed CC0.

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