External research grants currently fund approximately 10 staff positions including researchers, faculty investigators, research staff, a community liaison, database managers, phlebotomists, a technician, student research fellows, medical consultants and a translator. Our faculty are actively engaged teacher scholars who study chronic disease prevention and treatment, access to healthcare, digital technologies, reducing health disparities, promoting maternal and child health, movement behaviors, tobacco cessation, health communications, sexual health, and gender-based violence prevention.