The Center for Innovation in Population Health helps people manage human serving systems by utilizing the Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management (TCOM) framework. Michael Cull, associate director of the center, and Tiffany Lindsey, safe systems practitioner for the center, discuss the center’s mission, goals, and the benefit for agencies that rely upon this type of crossover information.

CPH faculty member Rachel Vickers-Smith, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental, and a team of investigators, recently examined whether there is racial or ethnic bias in who receives an alcohol use disorder (AUD) diagnosis among Veterans.

When is Alzheimer’s disease not Alzheimer’s disease? That sounds like a trick question, but it lies at the center of a newly funded research project led by co-principal investigators and UK faculty David Fardo, Ph.D., and Peter Nelson, MD, Ph.D. Their National Institute on Aging-funded research project, “Genetic Architecture of Aging-Related TDP-43 and Mixed Pathology Dementia,” aims to untangle how genetic factors contribute to dementia.  

Studies by the National High Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Centers for Disease Control found that alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes in a community can be decreased by up to 20% with properly conducted traffic safety checkpoints, also known as sobriety checkpoints.

June is National Safety Month. While safety matters every day, during June it gets the extra recognition it deserves. In observance, the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC) has compiled these tips from its research and prevention efforts to help keep you safe at home, on vacation, and anywhere else this summer.