| Project |
Contact |
Funding Agency |
Department |
Prevention Research Center
Core Research Project: HIV & STD Prevention
The center provides infrastructure for conducting community-based research. The program includes a core research project that tests effective approaches to reducing HIV/STD transmission among African-American women. N=400 |
D. Blumenthal
S. Smith |
Centers for Disease Control |
CHPM |
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Prevention
Research Center
Colorectal Cancer Screening Intervention Trial
Community based participatory research with African American men and women ages 50+ recruited from community and clinical settings. This trial tests the hypothesis that an intervention focused on education about colorectal cancer screening, diet and lifestyle changes will result in increased colorectal screening rates. Population: African American men and women ages 50+. N=500. |
D. Blumenthal
S. Smith
C. Majett |
Centers
for Disease Control |
CHPM |
| |
Prevention
Research Center
Stroke Prevention/Intervention Research Program (SPIRP) Community Core
The goal of SPIRP is to identify factors responsible for racial and geographic disparities related to stroke and cerebrovascular disease in the southeast and to establish prevention/intervention programs that will eliminate these disparities. |
E. Yancey |
National Institute of Neurologic Diseases & Stroke; National Health, lung & Blood Institute |
CHPM; Clinical Research Center |
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Prevention
Research Center
Violence Prevention: Community Advisory Board for Youth
This project targets communities with high homicide mortality rates in the 10-19 age group. In collaboration with Metro Atlanta Boys and Girls Clubs, the goal of the project is to assess the effectiveness of an intervention that utilizes youth-led advisory boards. Data sources include youth self reports, neighborhood juvenile arrest rates and homicides from 1994-2008 |
J. Griffin |
Hamilton Fish Institute (Dept. of Justice) |
CHPM |
| |
Prevention
Research Center
Violence Prevention: Turner Safe School Project
Tests a whole-school violence prevention intervention among 630 students at Turner Middle School in northwest |
J. Griffin |
Hamilton Fish Institute (Dept. of Justice) |
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CHPM |
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Prevention
Research Center
Creative Solutions to Cancer Awareness and Prevention through Education (CSCAPE)
This cancer prevention and research program is designed to create a sub-regional infrastructure of academic institutions, public agencies, and communities to conduct community-based participatory research on ethnic disparities in cancer between African-Americans and other minority populations and the U.S. white population. CSCAPE is part of the national Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network (www.cpcrn.org) |
D. Blumenthal
L. Caplan |
Centers
for Disease Control |
CHPM |
| |
Prevention
Research Center
Southern HIV/AIDS Prevention Initiative
This is an evaluation to determine the extent to which Southern HIV/AIDS Prevention grantees of the Pfizer Foundation have attained their program goals and objectives as outlined in their logic models. |
E. Yancey |
Pfizer |
CHPM |
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Prevention
Research Center
Community Technology Centers: A Focus on Teens and Their Parents in Healthcare Sites
A service delivery model created to lessen the digital divide by making educational computer technology available to indigent populations. The program is a collaborative partnership among MSM PRC, Emory University School of Medicine’s Jane Fonda Center and the Grady Health System. |
E. Yancey
M. Howard |
Dept. of Education |
CHPM |
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Prevention
Research Center
REACH 2010 (Reach for Wellness)
REACH organized a cardiovascular disease prevention coalition through a partnership with Fulton County Department of Health and Wellness to establish health equity and general well-being through collaborative planning, advocacy, empowerment, community action and systems change. |
D. Blumenthal |
Centers
for Disease Control |
CHPM |
| |
Social Epidemiology Research Center
Families Implementing Good Health Traditions for Life (F.I.G.H.T. for Life)
Community-based intervention program designed to improve blood pressure and cholesterol levels by increasing physical activity and fruit and vegetable intake among black families. N=90 families |
R. Collins |
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) |
CHPM |
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| Centers for Excellence on Health Disparities
Atlanta University Center Risk Factor Survey:
Identifies and monitors lifestyle risk factors among AU Center students and follows them longitudinally.
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D. Satcher
B. Hayes |
NIH Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities |
Family Medicine |
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