translational research

Research and representative publications

What is translational research?

Our work starts with basic research: projects and studies that look to add knowledge to the field.

We use those findings to shape real-world applications with our communities and partner organizations through health programs.

And then we do it all over again, bringing real-world findings back to basic research, helping to refine and improve upon existing knowledge.

On this page you’ll see some examples of the research our senior scientists, fellows, and partner organizations have produced over the years.

You can learn more about us and our team at our About page.

Acculturation

Acculturation, Physical Activity, and Fast-Food Consumption Among Asian-American and Hispanic Adolescents

The AHIMSA Acculturation Scale: A New Measure of Acculturation for Adolescents in a Multicultural Society

Child and family health

Parent-Child Engagement in Decision Making and the Development of Adolescent Affective Decision Capacity and Binge Drinking

The Association between Family Structure and Adolescent Smoking among Multicultural Students in Hawaii

Mental health

Family support and suicidal ideation in people with human immunodeficiency virus infection

Metabolic health

Associations between psychological characteristics and indicators of metabolic syndrome among Chinese adults

Building an Accountable Community for Health; Challenges and Opportunities for Addressing Obesity Related Diseases in Riverside County

Addressing the diabetes epidemic through integrated community- and clinic-based programs

Developing and implementing a system engineering approach training instrument used by integrated navigation teams in a diabetes prevention project

Neuroscience

Affective Decision-Making Deficits, Linked to a Dysfunctional Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex, Revealed in 10th-grade Chinese Adolescent Smokers

CTRI as a Living Translational Laboratory

How an AI Bot Can Help Mental Health Workers

CGH 412: Community-Based Translational Research to Promote Population Health

Learning Through Practice: The Design and Implementation of an Advanced Integrative Practicum for DrPH Students

Pedagogical Philosophy

An Integrative Model for Promoting Population Health through Pragmatic Translational Research: The Community Translational Research Institute (CTRI)

Representative publications

  • Learning Through Practice: Designing and Implementing an Advanced Integrative Practicum for DrPH Students

    Designing and implementing an advanced integrative practicum model using real community systems, with CTRI listed as an affiliation and C. Anderson Johnson as a contributing author.

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  • Developing and implementing a system engineering approach training instrument used by integrated navigation teams in a diabetes prevention project

    The Navigation Task Force (NTF), a pivotal subsystem of Stop Diabetes in Its Tracks (SDIT), provides guidance and support for participants enrolled in diabetes prevention and management programs to find and utilize local social and community resources.

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  • An environmental assessment focusing on urban green space in the city of Pomona, California, a predominantly Hispanic community

    Research suggests that access to urban green space is distributed in ways that disproportionately disadvantage people on the basis of class, ethnicity, and race, classifying it as an environmental justice issue.

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  • Using systems engineering to integrate multiple leadership partners for population health management

    Systems Engineering (SE) methodology can be a useful tool in population health to organize, and monitor the integration and collaboration of multiple partners and leaders in complex community-based population health programs.

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