The Emory Prevention Research Center has received a $6.2 million, five-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The grant enables the center, which is part of Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, to help reduce health disparities in rural southwest Georgia and to prevent cancer. This is the second time the center has received the grant, which is renewable in five years.
The Emory Prevention Research Center, established in 2004, is one of 35 CDC-funded Prevention Research Centers nationwide that conduct disease prevention research and promote health in conjunction with local communities.
The Emory center is currently testing a program called "Healthy Homes/Healthy Families", in which trained coaches from the community work with families to assess their homes for healthy eating habits and physical activity opportunities. The families and coaches then work to makes appropriate changes in the home.
Other projects funded by the new grant include a study of active surveillance attitudes and perceptions for prostate cancer led by Theresa Gillespie, an associate professor at the Emory University School of Medicine.
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