# Clinical and Community Human Assessment and Interventions Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · 2024 · $272,384

## Abstract

Project Summary – Clinical and Community Human Assessment and Interventions Core
The Clinical and Community Human Assessment and Interventions (CHAI) Core is the primary resource at
UNC for investigators to obtain services to support etiological and behavioral research in nutrition and obesity
science. The Core collaborates with research teams to enhance their methodological and technical expertise
to: 1) enable efficient and expert execution of behavioral and clinical assessment protocols (anthropometric,
physical, and behavioral measures), and 2) facilitate the conduct of complex intervention studies. As a shared
resource, the Core enables UNC NORC members and external users to efficiently add expertise to their team,
often for a short or specific duration. The Core has a well-established infrastructure that accelerates human
clinical, epidemiological, and intervention research in a seamless and cost-effective manner, and that assures
that scientists use up-to-date, rigorous, and reproducible methods in their science. The behavioral assessment
component of the Core offers methodological expertise and services to execute the assessment of diet and
physical activity in human populations. These functions assure that scientists at UNC and other institutions use
the latest cutting-edge methods in their research studies, including ActiLife software and the Nutrition Data
System for Research (NDS-R®) and ASA24 (NCI). The clinical assessment component of the Core provides
the expertise and equipment to support clinical measures for body composition using bioelectrical impedance,
BodPod and DXA, depending on the needs of the investigator. Our clinical assessment facility is equipped for
clinical metabolic assessments and is complete with a metabolic cart and whole room calorimetry, examination
rooms, pharmacy, phlebotomy laboratory, specimen laboratory, furnished consultation rooms, as well as a
metabolic kitchen to permit precise meal preparation and delivery for innovative studies of dietary composition.
The intervention component of the Core has been providing services to researchers for 15 years to develop
and conduct behavioral intervention research, qualitative research, and e-health and m-health intervention
development. Specifically, the intervention component offers consulting and services in behavior change
intervention and decision-aid websites and applications; logos and brochures, recruitment and presentation
materials; user research, such as usability testing, qualitative interviews and focus groups; tailored messaging
and feedback; and responsive design for mobile technology. The intervention component provides expertise in
eHealth and mobile platforms and responsive web designs.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10820514
- **Project number:** 5P30DK056350-24
- **Recipient organization:** UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
- **Principal Investigator:** Deborah F. Tate
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $272,384
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1999-09-30 → 2026-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10820514

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10820514, Clinical and Community Human Assessment and Interventions Core (5P30DK056350-24). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10820514. Licensed CC0.

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