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The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (PRC) was
established in 1998 through a
grant from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). One
of 33 such centers nationwide, each of which represents
an academic/community partnership, the Yale-Griffin
PRC is the only center in the network based in a hospital.
These centers engage in interdisciplinary applied prevention
research in collaboration with community partners, federal,
state, and local health and education agencies, and
other universities.
The goal of all PRCs is to develop innovative approaches
to health promotion and disease prevention that will
directly benefit the public’s health, first locally,
and then nationally.
PRCs use existing knowledge about health promotion
and disease prevention to determine if it can be successfully
applied in a community setting. Thus we are “research
centers” not because we work in a laboratory, but because
we measure effectiveness. We do this to seek new ways
to improve community health and then share those findings
with others.
To learn more about the CDC Prevention Research Centers
Program, click
here.
To access our Community Health Profile, click here
or visit the Research and Findings page.
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