Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers: PPHF - Affordable Care Act Projects

To: (1) To maintain, and operate academic-based centers for high-quality research and demonstration with respect to health promotion and disease prevention; (2) to establish linkages, where applicable, between ongoing, basic research in a wide array of fields and applied research in disease prevention and health promotion; (3) to bring the knowledge and expertise of academic health centers to bear on practical public health problems; (4) to field test and rigorously evaluate more cost-effective methods and strategies for preventing unnecessary illness and promoting good health; (5) to shorten the time lag between the development of new and proven effective disease prevention and health promotion techniques and their widespread application, and; 6) to involve the community in the development, conduct, and implementation of prevention research. Prevention Research Centers will: (1) focus on the major causes of death and disability, with an emphasis on underserved and vulnerable populations (2) improve public health practice through community-based participatory research, and (3) design, test, disseminate, or translate effective public health programs at the state and community level. Funding will support key elements of (1) infrastructure and administration, (2) community engagement and partnerships, (3) communication and dissemination, (4) training and education, (5) evaluation, (6) a community-based participatory core research project, and -- for some Prevention Research Centers, 7) special interest projects (SIPS).

Types of Assistance: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS