The CPP promotes synergies and collaborations across the domestic and international arenas to address pressing health problems and promote positive health behavior. CPP research in this area includes:

• Smoking cessation among older Americans
• Branded food advertisements and consumption decisions
• Obesity, dating, and sex
• Impact of obesity on disability
• School-based policies for preventing childhood obesity
• Interventions for risk reduction and avoidance in youth
• Inequalities in access to health services and health outcomes
• Malnutrition in developing countries
• Effects of AIDS education and social marketing on condom use in Tanzania
• Health environment relations in the Brazilian Amazon
• Environmental stress and behavior under risk of uncertainty
• Medicare Part D community education
• Emotions and reproductive health