Community Design for Health and Wellness

What is CDHW?

The Community Design for Health and Wellness (CDHW) brings researchers and community partners together to explore and design shared solutions to community-defined problems in health and wellness. Led by the Community Design for Health and Wellness Interdisciplinary Research Group (CDHW-IRG), this project aims to advance community-engaged, interdisciplinary research throughout New Jersey aimed at improving health and wellness.

The focus is on targeting shared solutions to the gaps, risks, and opportunities for better health that lie at the intersections of population health, personalized medicine, and information and communication as a determinant of health and well-being.

CDHW Projects

Kids & Tech: Potent Combo for Improving Air Quality

Using Social Media to Bolster Opioid Use Prevention

Promoting Fairness in Mental Health Prediction Apps

Exposing Barriers to Health Communication in New Jersey

See additional projects at the Community Design for Health and Wellness website.

Mark Aakhus,
Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Communication,
Rutgers School of Communication and Information

Co-Director,
Sarah Allred,
Associate Professor and Associate Chair,
Department of Psychology,
Rutgers University

SC&I Members	Expertise
Jack Bratich	Media Processes, Knowledge Communities, Ethic of Community Care
Kaitlin Costello	Infomediology, Health Information Behavior, Online Health Communities
Sunyoung Kim	Human-Computer Interaction, Mobile/Ubiquitous Computing, Citizen Science
Matthew Matsaganis	Community Engagement, Ethnic Media, Communicative Determinants of Health, Health Disparities, Health Services
Lisa Mikesell	Patient Engagement, Shared Decision-Making, Clinical Practice
Charles Senteio	Community Engagement, Health, Wellness, and Interaction, Electronic Health Records
Vivek Singh	Behavioral Informatics, Sensor-Based Information Seeking
Nina Wacholder	Computational Linguistics, Taxonomies, Controlled Vocabularies, Ontologies