Centers for Research and Demonstration for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

The funded Prevention Research Centers aims are to: 1. Establish, maintain, and operate multi-disciplinary academic-based centers that conduct high-quality applied health promotion and disease prevention research; 2. Improve public health practice through applied prevention research; 3. Apply the knowledge and expertise of academic health centers to address practical public health problems; 4. Design, implement, evaluate, and disseminate cost-effective methods and strategies for health promotion and disease prevention at the tribal, territorial, state, or local level; 5. Shorten the time lag between the development of new and proven effective disease prevention and health promotion strategies and interventions and their widespread application; and 6. Involve health departments and other community partners in the development, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of one applied public health prevention research project.