The Health Evaluation Assessment and Learning (HEAL) lab users innovative mixed-methods methodologies, both in the laboratory and in “real-time” to assess factors related to tobacco use and correlated health-risk behaviors (like alcohol and cannabis). The goal of our work is to inform tobacco regulations and prevention efforts aimed at deterring the initiation, uptake, and progression of problematic substance use. Our work focuses primarily on high-risk populations who are negatively impacted by tobacco-related disease and health consequences.
Health Promotion Research Center
The HEAL Lab is part of the Health Promotion Research Center. The mission of the TSET Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC; formerly the Oklahoma Tobacco Research Center [OTRC]) is to reduce the burden of disease in Oklahoma by addressing modifiable health risk factors such as tobacco use, sedentary lifestyle, poor diet, and risky alcohol and other substance use through research, novel intervention development, and dissemination of research findings. The HPRC contains four major resources that facilitate research and are led by HPRC faculty: Mobile Health Shared Resource, Tobacco Treatment Research Program, Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Program, and Tobacco Regulatory Science Clinical Laboratory. For more information about HPRC visit healthpromotionresearch.org.
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Every day, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) educates more than four thousand students and residents to strengthen our state’s healthcare workforce; discovers new treatments for disease; and provides Oklahomans a unique resource for highly skilled, compassionate care across all children’s, women’s, and adult specialties. OUHSC is dedicated to improving the quality of life for those we serve — both today and for future generations. For more information about OUHSC visit ouhsc.edu.