The Collaborative Health Integration Research Program (CHIRP) is a behavioral medicine research and research training program with a focus on health disparities.
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The goal of CHIRP is to reduce health disparities by generating new knowledge and developing a pipeline of researchers capable of investigating and reducing health disparities.
The Collaborative Health Integration Research Program (CHIRP) is a behavioral medicine research and research training program with a focus on health disparities.
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Under the direction of Dr. Elizabeth Brondolo, CHIRP is recognized as a center for research on health disparities. CHIRP projects focus on identifying and understanding the mechanisms contributing to disparities in health and health care. This mechanistic research provides the knowledge essential for the development of patient, provider, and system-based interventions to improve health outcomes.
From humble beginnings. CHIRP began in 2007 as a collaborative effort of Dr. Elizabeth Brondolo of the department of Psychology at St. John’s University (SJU) and Dr. Alan Roth and Dr. Gina Basello of the Department of Family Medicine at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center (JHMC). CHIRP became a formal program at St. John's University in 2012. The goal of CHIRP was to provide research training and increase research opportunities for both JHMC Family Medicine residents and St. John's University psychology students.
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To new partnerships. Now, CHIRP also has contracts with JHMC Departments of Psychiatry, JHMC and Flushing Hospital Medical Center Research Program, and NewYorkPresbyterian-Queens Lang Research Center. CHIRP Fellows include SJU undergraduate students in psychology, Masters and Doctoral-level students in Psychology, Doctoral students in the Pharmacy program, and Family and Internal Medicine Resident Physicians.
Impact
Training the next generation. Developing novel research. Fostering new partnerships.
350+
undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral trainees
120+
conference presentations
4
novel programs
145+
residents from programs in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Psychiatry
49
peer-reviewed journal articles, clinical papers, and chapters
3
hospital-university partnerships
CHIRP Fellows learn by doing. They are all contributing members of research teams conducting studies in the lab and in local medical centers. Trainees develop skills in research conceptualization and implementation; leadership, collaboration and team science; data collection, management and analysis; and research writing and presentation. They learn to use a broad range of methods critical for behavioral medicine, including ecological momentary assessment, qualitative interviewing, ambulatory monitoring, and survey methods, among others.
CHIRP research programs are funded by extramural and intramural support (link). CHIRP trainees present their work at local, national, and international conferences (see presentations page). The work from CHIRP members has been published in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters (see publications page).