NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center Tools & Publications

Through its prevention research efforts and interventions, the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center (NYU-CUNY PRC), a partnership between NYU Langone and the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, has developed free informative tools and health education materials. We also publish community health‒related reports and scientific journal articles documenting our study findings.

Selected Tools and Reports

These materials are intended for a wide variety of audiences, including community health leaders and advocates, health systems administrators, epidemiologists and other health research professionals, and students of all levels interested in public health research.

Launching a Neighborhood-Based Community Health Worker Initiative

Our center plays a key role in evaluating and supporting the Harlem Health Advocacy Partnership, a place-based initiative that seeks to improve the health outcomes of New York City Housing Authority residents in East and Central Harlem. As part of our evaluation, we developed a community needs assessment report, “Launching a Neighborhood-Based Community Health Worker Initiative,” which is publicly accessible as part of the Harlem Health Advocacy Partnership’s Additional Resources.

Integration of Community Health Workers into Primary Care Health Systems

This white paper, which outlines best practices and business case considerations for the integration of community health workers (CHWs) into healthcare systems, is aimed at policymakers, health systems administrators, and healthcare advocates. Drawing upon diverse models of CHW integration being implemented across the country, our paper offers practical solutions for how CHWs can be successfully integrated into healthcare teams and organizations.

New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

In 2015, investigators from our center provided local health department researchers and CUNY faculty with basic analytic tools for analyzing new population health data about chronic diseases from the New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NYC HANES). The training materials are now publicly accessible as part of NYC HANES’s data resources.

Muslim Americans Reaching for Health and Building Alliances

Spearheaded by Nadia S. Islam, PhD, and team members from the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health, Muslim Americans Reaching for Health and Building Alliances (MARHABA) compared the use of large-scale, culturally tailored media delivered by a lay health worker to media coupled with lay health worker‒led patient navigation to promote cancer awareness and screening in diverse New York City Muslim populations. Explore the culturally adapted MARHABA tools that were developed.

For more information about obtaining these and other available materials, please email us at nyu.cuny.prc@nyulangone.org.

Community Health Worker Training Tools

Developed for use in NYU-CUNY PRC programs, our free Community Health Worker Toolkit can be adapted to fit the unique needs of other community health worker programs. Available materials include a Toolkit Training Manual, a template Progress Note, and eight educational FlipCharts, which can be used during CHW interactions with community members.

The Diabetes Research, Education, and Action for Minorities (DREAM) Project, which began in the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health (CSAAH), generated considerable CHW resources through a program designed to improved diabetes control and diabetes-related health complications in the Bangladeshi community in New York City. Tools created include an in-language intervention guide; data collection tools; and recruitment, intervention session, and educational materials, among others.

The Project on Asian American Partnership in Research and Empowerment (AsPIRE) was designed to develop, test, and evaluate a CHW program for reducing cardiovascular disease and hypertension disparities among Filipino Americans living in New York and New Jersey. CHW tools generated from this CSAAH study include a culturally tailored training manual and related materials.