# Collaboration, Dissemination, and Education

> **NIH NIH P20** · UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE · 2022 · $411,015

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
CORE C: Collaboration, Dissemination, and Education (CDE) Core
The Vermont Center on Behavior and Health (VCBH) is an interdisciplinary research center that investigates
relationships between personal behavior and risk for chronic disease and premature death. The overarching
aim of the VCBH Collaboration, Dissemination, and Education (CDE) Core is to nurture and coordinate
relationships between the VCBH and leaders in Vermont health care policy and delivery as well as with
collaborating university partners located in other IDeA states and beyond. We propose that Stephen T.
Higgins, PhD, and Richard Rawson, PhD, continue as Co-directors, and Diann E. Gaalema, PhD, as Associate
Director. Locally, we have established multiple collaborations with Vermont healthcare policy makers including
the University of Vermont (UVM) Medical Center, Vermont Department of Health, and public and private health
insurers that we propose to continue and develop further. Nationally, we have established collaborations with
colleagues at universities in other IDeA states (Brown University, University of Kentucky), and plan to expand
them to include universities located in other IDeA states (Dartmouth College, University of Maine, University of
Nebraska), non-IDeA states (Johns Hopkins University, State University of New York at Buffalo, Wayne State,
Laureate Institute), and internationally (University of Glasgow, Oviedo University, Makerere University). These
collaborations have already fostered substantive new research and funding opportunities and we are confident
that they will continue to do so. To facilitate dissemination of advances in this research area we have
established a UVM lecture series in behavior and health that is live streamed to collaborators and others, and
also recorded and stored on the VCBH website, an annual national conference on behavior change, health,
and health disparities, and a series of Special Issues of the peer-reviewed journal Preventive Medicine based
on conference proceedings. VCBH scientists regularly participate in other national and international
conferences and publish in peer-reviewed journals, a practice that in the past four years has resulted in 118
peer-reviewed publications. Overall, we are confident that continuation and further development of these
practices will firmly establish the VCBH as a vibrant, interdisciplinary center of biomedical research excellence
with local, national, and international impact, while also providing important career development opportunities
for VCBH early-career faculty and predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10491312
- **Project number:** 5P20GM103644-10
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE
- **Principal Investigator:** Stephen T Higgins
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $411,015
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2013-09-15 → 2025-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10491312

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10491312, Collaboration, Dissemination, and Education (5P20GM103644-10). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10491312. Licensed CC0.

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