Stories of Prevention Research

Mini-Grants May Maximize Health in South Carolina
With the help of the University of South Carolina PRC, community groups have turned small grants into walking tracks in underserved areas of Sumter County. The community hopes to increase physical activity in the county, which has a high burden of chronic disease.

Sewing the Seeds of Good Health
The University of North Carolina PRC's Threads of HOPE project merges health and economic development. Unemployed women in a rural area are encouraged to build a business sewing conference bags and gain the motivation to address health behaviors.

 

New Media Bridge the Harlem Health Divide
Researchers at the Harlem Health Promotion Center are using a multimedia approach to help bridge the digital divide and the health divide in New York City.

 

Love, Pictured: Love Through the Eyes of Baltimore Youth
Baltimore teenagers focused on love for a photo project published as a 2008 calendar by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Adolescent Health. Teens say the love in their lives promotes their health.

 

Citrus Workers Focus on Eye Safety
Migrant orange pickers are working with the Florida Prevention Research Center to prevent eye injuries through safety glasses and education.

 

PEARLS Gives Seniors with Minor Depression New Hope
Seattle's Program to Encourage Active, Healthy Lives for Seniors teaches older adults behavior management techniques that lead to brighter days.

 

Families on the Border Join the Fight Against Diabetes
People are coming together in an Arizona region where diabetes is well above the national average to prove that staying healthy is a family and community affair.

 

Reading, Writing, and Reducing Obesity
Planet Health program developed at Harvard Prevention Research Center combines physical activity and nutrition lessons with middle school academic subjects.

 

Building a Healthier New Orleans
One year after Hurricane Katrina, the Tulane Prevention Research Center is working hard to ensure that a rebuilt New Orleans is known for its culture, not its chronic diseases.

 

Not On Tobacco
West Virginia’s Not-On-Tobacco intervention has helped thousands of high school students quit smoking. Two sisters share their story.

 

Community Health Advisors Light Up Alabama’s Black Belt
The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Center for Health Promotion is training community health advisors in an area of Alabama—the Black Belt—where the diabetes and obesity rates are high and income levels are low.

 

University of Washington PRC Intervention Wins National Award
A proven intervention that originated in one of CDC’s Prevention Research Centers earned national recognition in October 2005 for improving health and physical performance in older adults.

 

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