Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Awarded Tier 1 Research Grant From UW's Population Health Initiative
Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Professor of Psychology and SEFS, has been awarded a Tier 1 Research Grant from the University of Washington’s Population Health Initiative. The award supports a new interdisciplinary project titled “Embodied Nature Engagement: Developing the Interaction Pattern Preference Inventory (IPPI) for Nature Prescriptions in Primary Care.” Kahn is Co-PI along with Co-PI Sebastian Tong Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine (UW School of Medicine). The project brings together psychology, family medicine, and human–nature interaction research to advance how primary care providers can tailor nature prescriptions using an empirically grounded assessment of patients’ preferred modes of embodied nature engagement. Two team members are central contributors to the work: Ashley Park, MPH, Research Scientist in the Department of Family Medicine, and Hongfei (Fei) Li, PhD candidate in the College of the Built Environment, both of whom are helping lead measure development, study design, and qualitative/quantitative data collection. This award reflects growing interest across campus in bridging psychological science, population health, and nature-based interventions.