Theme & Aims

The EPRC focuses on community-based cancer prevention and reducing health disparities in the rural communities of Southwest Georgia. The main behavioral focus for the EPRC is primary prevention, and more specifically reducing health risks related to tobacco, physical activity, and nutrition; including reduction of overweight/obesity.

Our community partners helped us develop these themes, which are founded upon public health data as well as recommendations from key government and health agencies.

Goals and Activities:

• Promote prevention research
• Conduct research on cancer prevention
• Deliver training and education
• Communicate new findings and our results
• Provide technical assistance for research and evaluation
• Evaluate our efforts
• Serve as a funding channel for other Emory faculty research

About the Emory Prevention Research Center (PDF)

The Emory Prevention Research Center and the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network are members of the Prevention Research Centers Program, supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cooperative agreement number U48 DP001909. The findings and conclusions on these pages are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.