Research Services

Housed within the school are a number of services that can assist you in conducting your research. Whether you are looking for statistical analysis, recruitment of study participants, or survey design, our experts can help you.

SPH Health Survey Research Center

The Health Survey Research Center (HSRC) is an Internal Service Organization (ISO) unit within the Dean's Office of the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. The Health Survey Research Center serves the data collection and participant recruitment needs of health researchers from the School of Public Health, the Academic Health Center, the wider University of Minnesota community, and beyond.

We are located on the East Bank of the University's Twin Cities campus in a newly renovated building affectionately called 717 Delaware.

Our formal address is:
Health Survey Research Center ¿ HSRC
University of Minnesota
School of Public Health
717 Delaware St. S.E., Suite 132
Minneapolis, MN 55414

Other ways to contact us:
Phone: 612-626-8840 or
Toll free: 1-800-670-8636
Fax: 612-626-0153
Email: hsrc@umn.edu

Nutrition Coordinating Center (NCC)

The Nutrition Coordinating Center develops, provides, and supports state-of-the-art methods and databases for researchers collecting and analyzing dietary data.

The NCC Nutrition Data System for Research (NDS-R) software is designed primarily for the assessment of dietary intake in clinical research and epidemiological studies investigating relationships between diet and health. The center has been recognized as a research resource by the National Institutes of Health, and the NDS-R software has been used by countless researchers.

The software can be used for the collection and analysis of:

• 24-hour recalls
• Food records
• Menus
• Recipes

The NCC also maintains an extensive database of food and nutrient information for a large number of food products. Updated and released annually, the current database version includes values for 136 nutrients, nutrient ratios, and other food components for more than 18,000 foods.

Linked to the database, the NDS-R interview system integrates the multiple-pass interview methodology, provides for direct data entry, captures the level of detail required for highly accurate nutrient analysis, and calculates nutrients as data are collected. A highly flexible food grouping system designed for use with NDS-R dietary intake data is now available to add a further dimension to the food and nutrient analysis capability of the software.

Additional NCC services include:

• Assistance with protocol development
• Dietary interviewer training and certification
• Data processing and quality assurance of dietary intake data
• Collection of dietary recalls per telephone
• Food group serving counts
• Recipe and menu analysis

Contact Information

Director:
John Himes
Phone: (612) 626-9450
Fax: (612) 626-9444
NDS Software Email: ncc@epi.umn.edu
NCC Service Center Email: nccservicecenter@epi.umn.edu