News

Study Finds Away-From-Home Food Intake Associated with Risk for Obesity in Children
A study by the San Diego PRC found that children who eat away-from-home at least once a week are at risk for obesity. See the May 2008 issue of Obesity (www.nature.com/oby/index.html),* article titled "Away-from-home Food Intake and Risk for Obesity: Examining the Influence of Context."

VERB Campaign's Use of Social Marketing
The University of South Florida's PRC co-authored an article, titled "Catalyzing Community Action Within a National Campaign: VERB Community and National Partnerships," in the June 2008 supplement of American Journal of Preventive Medicine.* The article describes the social marketing strategy used to sustain the immediate effects of the VERB campaign, designed to promote activity in youth.

Prevention Research Centers Program's 2008 Annual Meeting Concludes
The PRC Program's 2008 Annual Meeting was held March 25-27 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lessons Learned from Engaging Partners in Evaluation
A journal article in the January 2008 issue of Preventing Chronic Disease, "Engaging Partners to Initiate Evaluation Efforts: Tactics Used and Lessons Learned From the Prevention Research Centers Program," explains methods used and lessons learned from involving PRC Program stakeholders in the planning and development of a national program evaluation and PRC Program logic model.

Article on the Use of Community Coalitions to Change Policy and the Environment
"From Program to Policy: Expanding the Role of Community Coalitions," an article in the October 2007 issue of Preventing Chronic Disease by the University of Arizona's PRC, on how five community-based partnerships went from improving health behaviors through programs to changing policy and the environment in counties along the Arizona-Mexico boarder.

PRC 2008 Annual Program Meeting Announcement

2008 Special Interest Projects (SIPs) Program Announcement #RFA-DP-08-002
CDC announces SIPs Competitive Supplement. Letters of Intent are due March 3, 2008. Applications are due April 1, 2008.

PRC Minority Fellowships Program Opens Four New Positions (2008)

List of Newly Funded 2007 Special Interest Projects

New Booklet Containing Stories of Prevention Research (PDF-2MB)

An Article on PRC Program's Trust Project
Community-Institutional Partnerships: Understanding Trust Among Partners reports on the methods and findings of the trust project. It is available online through Health Education and Behavior*.

Four New Minority Fellows Start Prevention Research (2007)

Community-based Participatory Research: Necessary Next Steps

An article in the June 2007 issue of Preventing Chronic Disease suggests that the PRC Program's national assessment may contribute to defining a standard set of competencies and resources required for effective community-based participatory research.

PRC Program Hosting a Seminar on Dissemination

School-Based Programs: Lessons Learned from CATCH, Planet Health, and Not-On-Tobacco.

An article in the April 2007 issue of Preventing Chronic Disease describes features of three successful school health promotion programs developed by PRCs and the lessons learned from development and dissemination.

PRC Director is Part of CDC Lecture Series on Public Health Ethics

Prevention Research Centers Program's 2007 Annual Meeting Concludes

PRC Minority Fellowship Program Opens Four New Positions (2007)

2007 Special Interest Projects (SIPs) Program Announcement #RFA-DP-07-002

CDC announces SIPs Competitive Supplement. Letters of Intent are due March 19, 2007. Applications are due April 17, 2007.

Prevention Research Centers Announce 2007 Annual Program Meeting

Journal Article Assesses the Impact of Prevention Research Through Peer-Reviewed Publications*
An article, Assessing Prevention Research Impact: A Bibliometric Analysis,* in the March 2006 issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine* describes a process for assessing the scientific impact of the PRCs on public health prevention research.

Four New Minority Fellows Begin Prevention Research (2006)

Journal Article on the Screening of Children in the Healthy Kids Project
This article published in the October 2006 issue of Preventing Chronic Disease focuses on children's body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure screening. The University of Oklahoma Prevention Research Center's project is being conducted in a rural public school system near Anadarko, Oklahoma.

Journal Article about Talking Parents, Healthy Teens
This article in the October 2006 issue of Preventing Chronic Disease describes the theoretical framework, components, and intervention strategies of Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, the core research project of the UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion.

Using Concept Mapping to Develop a Logic Model for the Prevention Research Centers Program

An article in the January 2006 issue of Preventing Chronic Disease describes the PRCs’ process of involving stakeholders in developing a logic model for a national program.

2006 Special Interest Projects (SIPs) Program Announcement #RFA-DP-06-003

CDC announces SIPs Competitive Supplement. Letters of Intent are due April 19, 2006. Applications are due May 19, 2006.

National Community Committee’s Second Quarterly Newsletter Now Available

Prevention Research Centers: Contributions to Updating the Public Health Workforce Through Training

An article in Preventing Chronic Disease highlights several training programs PRCs offer to enhance the U.S. public health workforce.

PRCs’ Training Catalog Now Online

Web-based catalog lists training programs offered or sponsored by the centers and some of their affiliates.

2005 Special Interest Projects (SIPs) Program Announcement #RFA-DP-04-003A

CDC announces SIPs Competitive Supplement. Letters of Intent are due Monday 26, 2005. Applications are due June 15, 2005.

CDC Acknowledges Twenty Years of the PRCs’ Achievements

Sunday, November 7, 2004, 2:30 pm, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC

2004 Special Interest Projects Announcement #04003

CDC announces SIPs Competitive Supplement. Letters of Intent are due May 7, 2004.  Applications are due May 25, 2004.

Prevention Research Centers Program Selects Minority Fellows (2004)

Press release

18th National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control

cosponsored by CDC, Chronic Disease Directors, and Prevention Research Centers

Investing in Health: The Dollars and Sense of Prevention
February 18–20, 2004
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Washington, DC

Prevention Research Centers Request for Applications (RFA)

CDC announces the second round of competition for the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers Cooperative Agreement.

Preapplication Workshop
January 23, 2004
Atlanta, Georgia

Prevention Research Centers Program Selects Minority Fellow (2003)

Press release

New Research Center in Albany to Address Disease Prevention

CDC Adds New Research Centers to Address Disease Prevention, Press release.

New Research Center in Iowa to Address Disease Prevention

CDC Adds New Research Centers to Address Disease Prevention, Press release.

17th National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control

Cosponsored by CDC, Chronic Disease Directors, and Prevention Research Centers

Gateway to Lifelong Health:
The Community Connection
February 19–21, 2003
Millennium Hotel
St. Louis, Missouri

Prevention Research Centers Program Selects Minority Fellows (2002)

Press release

New Prevention Research Centers Focus on Public Housing and Aging Population

Press release

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