The Building Healthy Behaviors Across the Life Span (BBAL) Organized Research Center investigates the prevention and management of disease, the optimization of health, and the ways in which behaviors can influence disease prevalence and progression.
Recognized by the University of Maryland, Baltimore as a Center of Excellence in 2012, BBAL provides numerous activities to support its researchers in training, service, and discovery.
The Building Healthy Behaviors Across the Lifespan (BBAL) Center promotes the conduct of interdisciplinary research related to the influence of behaviors on health and health outcomes across the lifespan.
The BBAL Center strives to serve as a center for shared thinking — within the School of Nursing and across the University of Maryland, Baltimore — aimed at the development of pioneering research ideas and interventions to promote and sustain health in all people, from infancy to old age. The center will provide a core for the pooling of resources and sharing of data across a wide variety of projects related to behavioral health outcomes. Its members will provide leadership within the School of Nursing to guide research related to health behavior across the lifespan.