PRC Strategic Planning: Mission, Vision, and
Goal Statements
Mission
The Prevention Research Centers work as an interdependent network of
community, academic, and public health partners to conduct prevention
research and promote the wide use of practices proven to promote good
health.
Vision
People in all communities are empowered to enjoy good health and quality
of life. They live in communities that are safe. These communities have
physical, social, and policy environments that support the adoption and
maintenance of attitudes and behaviors known to promote health and
well-being; and they effectively engage health services and community
programs to promote prevention across all populations and to prevent or
minimize the impact of acute and chronic disease.
Goal Statements
Education
- To offer training,
technical assistance, and mentoring for all prevention research
constituents to enhance competency in the knowledge and skills required
for the research and public health initiatives.
Service
- Within the Prevention Research Partnership, share our respective
expertise as a service to communities to support and engage in health
promotion and associated research.
Life Stages
- To sustain a balanced portfolio of research, training, and
dissemination that addresses the health needs of individuals, families,
and communities at all life stages.
Collaboration
- To ensure that all partners essential to prevention research share
their strengths and enhance their capacity in an alliance of trust.
- To continuously identify and involve new primary, secondary, and distant
partners that are critical for achieving the program’s mission.
Research
- To assess research needs identified by partners.
- To conduct prevention research that addresses identified needs.
Research-to-Practice
- To conduct research that builds on previous evidence about promising
interventions.
- To evaluate research on health promotion or disease prevention
interventions and recommend interventions to be packaged for replication
and/or dissemination and adoption.
- To translate and disseminate effective interventions tested by the
Prevention Research Centers.
- To strengthen mechanisms such as “Networks” and “Consortiums” for
implementing prevention research that has been identified as critical to
the program’s mission.
In order to achieve these six goal areas, the PRC Program will develop
and maintain an infrastructure that will:
- Provide support for the Prevention Research Centers to fulfill their
missions and goals.
- Promote cohesion among researchers, staff, and community partners
across multiple disciplines and tasks.
- Identify policy and programmatic needs of the program’s partners and
supporters.
- Inform and educate partners and supporters about the program’s
activities, goals, achievements, and needs.
- Improve the program’s effectiveness and efficiency and
accountability to partners and supporters.
Core Values
- Respect
- We value and appreciate the individual and collaborative
contributions of our diverse internal and external partners.
- Trust
- We are committed to building, nurturing, and sustaining
relationships that are based on mutual trust and efforts.
- Integrity
- We value and support a consistent code of ethics characterized by
honesty and transparency in our actions and commitment to our program.
- Accountability
- We are responsible for demonstrating the impact of program
investments in public health research through evaluation, communication,
and dissemination.
