• Research overview

The IFHR-Dallas focuses on discovery of new community health improvement principles related to FBOs and faith-health collaborations in addressing primary, secondary and tertiary health concerns. The Institute seeks to investigate specific philosophical, spiritual and theoretical principles that may be unique to faith-health collaborations and their ability to positively impact health outcomes.

The Institute also seeks to investigate specific constructs unique to some FBOs that may negatively impact health outcomes through:

• Dependency Mediation & Social Capital restriction
• Institutional gender, racial and economic hierarchy
• Tiered social networks
• Centralized paternalistic governance

Researchers work with community and faith-health collaborations to strengthen the scientific, peer-reviewed knowledge around a variety of faith-health collaborative models.  Building upon the experiences of Central Dallas Ministries, Project Access Dallas and other national partners, research results will reduce the amount of time needed to design, implement, test and disseminate data supporting best practices.