Welcome

The Prevention Research Center at Saint Louis University (SLU-PRC) is comprised of community, practice, and academic partners who have worked together for nine years. Its mission is to prevent chronic diseases and improve individual and community health within Missouri by conducting, evaluating, and disseminating community-based prevention research.

Through an extensive developmental process, the SLU-PRC has moved from coalition-based interventions that largely respond to suggestions for programs from outsiders, to partners working together to determine the programs that will be implemented. In its efforts to prevent chronic diseases and eliminate health disparities, the SLU-PRC has evolved from a focus on individual health behavior change to creating changes in the social and physical environments that enable individuals to make healthy choices. From now through 2009, we will be focusing on six key areas: evaluation, collaborations and partnerships, research, communication and dissemination, infrastructure, and training and education. This will facilitate the SLU-PRC in achieving the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention goal of adding “to knowledge about preventing and controlling chronic disease”.

The Prevention Research Center at Saint Louis University is a member of the Prevention Research Centers Program, supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cooperative agreement number 1-U48-DP-000060.