Mark J. DeHaven, PhD

Professor and Executive Director
University of North Texas Health Science Center
Texas Prevention Institute (TPI)
3500 Camp Bowie Boulevard
Fort Worth, TX
USA 76107

Biographical Sketch: Dr. DeHaven has been involved in building community health improvement and community-based research capacity for nearly two decades. His contribution to building family medicine research capacity nationwide, earned him the President’s Award in 2006 from the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG), the world’s leading primary care research organization. Since 1994, he has been developing a comprehensive model of community medicine combining clinical science, epidemiology, and social sciences for reducing chronic disease in underserved communities. He is the founder of the UT Southwestern Divisions of Community Medicine and Community Health Sciences, founder of the Community Health Fellowship Program, founder of the Community Action Research Track, and founding director of the recently formed Texas Prevention Institute. He is currently principal investigator of a 5-year RO1 clinical trial known at The GoodNEWS (Genes, Nutrition, Exercise, Wellness, and Spiritual Growth) Trial, funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), investigating community-based faith and health collaborative approaches for reducing risk factors for cardiovascular disease in the congregational setting. He is also the is community engagement key function director of the U54 Clinical and Translational Sciences Award (North and Central Texas Clinical and Translational Sciences Award) from the National Center for Research Resources of the NIH. Dr. DeHaven is a community-based participatory researcher (CBPR), and in 2006 he completed a three-year study funded by the Center's for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) designed to improve access to care and health outcomes among those without insurance; and he was co-investigator of “Community Leadership in Preventing (CLIP) Asthma,” funded by Exxon-Mobil, a project designed to reduce the risk of asthma in children by improving the home and school environment. Dr. DeHaven is presently developing the Healthy Harvest Community Gardening Initiative for increasing access to healthy and nutritious food choices in neighborhoods where fresh foods are not available. Dr. DeHaven has received numerous awards including the Dallas Academy of Medicine Philanthropy Award and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Professional of The Year Award. He is a frequent speaker on sustainable models of community health improvement for reducing chronic disease and the contribution of faith – health collaborative approaches to reducing risk factors for disease. He has been a community medicine and health improvement research mentor for hundreds of primary care residents, medical students, research fellows, and faculty in specialties ranging from family medicine and internal medicine, to cardiology, public health, and endovascular surgery. During the past decade he has supervised medical student global community health projects in twelve countries. He has been recognized for his community health improvement activities in Mexico with the Programa de Desarrollo Humano Oportunidades (Program of Human Development and Opportunity) in Chihuahua, his contribution to developing community-medicine approaches in Lima and Huancavelica, Peru, and his recent activities in Harbin, China.

Papers:
4020.0 Results from the goodnews (Genes, Nutrition, Exercise, Wellness, and Spiritual Growth) faith and health program for reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease in African-American congregations 4021.0 Working together for ten years: The goodnews (Genes, Nutrition, Exercise, Wellness, and Spiritual Growth) CBPR partnership for reducing CVD