Texas Prevention Institute  

 Promoting Health In People's Lives

The Texas Prevention Institute functions as a core facility for supporting, developing, and improving research and training programs, directed at reducing the burden of chronic disease in under-served communities.  We implement community engagement, health promotion, comparative effectiveness, clinical, basic science, and health policy research approaches for the purpose of preventing diseases among high-risk populations. 

We integrate the activities and resources (human and physical) of three existing UNT Health Science Center research centers:

Primary Care Research Center

Read the recently released Parker County Health Report.

Texas Center for Health Disparities

 Center for Community Health

By integrating these three centers, we seek to create a translational prevention research continuum combining community, clinical, and basic science components.  The Texas Prevention Institute will also contain a health policy research component for further integrating and enhancing the capacity and effectiveness of the translational research structure.