Advancing Rural Health With Clinical Research
The Hormel Institute serves as a site for clinical studies that help represent our rural southeastern Minnesota communities in future health care solutions.
What we learn from clinical research helps us understand what keeps humans healthy — and then act on it. New findings can lead to safe, effective treatment and preventative options for illness and injury. Health care professionals can apply new, evidence-backed information to their practices that allow patients to make more informed wellbeing decisions and receive the right care.
While studies often take place in urban areas, where organizations leading studies are commonly located, health is influenced by many varying factors, including our local environments. By making it easier for rural populations to participate in research, we get closer to a future where health care benefits everyone.
Current Clinical Studies
Dietary Study
Help with important research! At The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, we are looking for healthy women ages 18 to 50 with no history of cancer to take part in a 26-week long dietary study looking at the effects of milk and fiber on breast cancer risk.
Participants will drink milk and fiber once a day for 5 – 2-week periods and compensation up to $400. For more information, visit redcap.link/HIDMBCRStudy.
Smoking and Alcohol Study
This research study aims to identify changes in mouth cells that are specific to drinking alcohol and/or smoking cigarettes that might be important in the development of head and neck cancers. To learn more about this study, go to tobaccoresearch.umn.edu.
Tobacco Research Programs
For information on this study, visit tobaccoresearch.umn.edu or email [email protected]
Go to the Tobacco Research Programs Registry site, where we will collect some information and contact you about studies we are recruiting for.
Participants Still Needed for 10,000 Families Study
The Hormel Institute is excited to announce our partnership with the 10,000 Families Study (10KFS) of the University of Minnesota! 10KFS is a study of family health across Minnesota, looking at how environment, genetics, and daily life affect health and illness over time. We are partnering to invite families from Mower County and broader Southeast Minnesota to join the study; let’s make sure our region is represented in this landmark project! We’re also offering the opportunity to come over to the Institute for health visits, the in-person part of 10KFS, rather than go up to the Twin Cities.
Want to see if your family is eligible to join 10KFS? Click on z.umn.edu/10KFS-Hormel.
Questions? Email [email protected].
For more information, contact:
Emily Heath, RN BSN
Clinical Studies Manager
The Hormel Institute University of Minnesota
Office: 507-437-9642
Email: [email protected]