Communities need culturally congruent programs to promote healthy lifestyles and prevent diseases. Our aim is to develop partnerships with community members, other researchers, and clinicians, to design effective culturally competent, developmentally appropriate, theoretically sound health promotion and disease prevention program to improve health outcomes and health equity across the lifespan. Examples include:

- Symptoms Managements/Self Management (asthma, diabetes, heart disease, HIV)
- Sexual Health (HIV, STD, and pregnancy prevention initiatives)
- Assault, Injury & Skin Color
- Intimate Partner Violence Initiatives
- Nutrition, Obesity, & Fitness
- Global Health Initiatives

Anne Teitelman, PhD, APRN - Teen Health Project
   To prevent unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)

Dr. Loretta Sweet Jemmott - Mothers and Sons Health Promotion Project

Protect Our Future - The South Africa Health Promotion Project

Dr. Christopher Coleman - Intervention

The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility and acceptability of an HIV risk reduction intervention to increase consistent condom use a sample of older HIV positive African American men who have sex with men (MSM). Repeated measures were used at baseline, immediate post intervention, and 3 months post intervention to collect data. The development of the intervention was implemented in four phases: focus groups, pilot testing of the questionnaire, modifying the intervention and executing the intervention.  Sixty HIV positive African American MSM were randomized to either an HIV risk condition or a health condition.  Each condition consisted of 4, 120-minute sessions delivered over a 4-week period in a classroom like setting using interactive approaches.