Florida Prevention Research Center

Print Friendly

Florida Prevention Research Center

 

Our Mission:

To develop, implement and evaluate evidence-based approaches to strengthen community capacity for sustained disease prevention and health promotion.

The Florida Prevention Research Center is designated as one of 37 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Centers in the nation funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Florida Prevention Research Center focus is on Community-Based Prevention Marketing (CBPM): Building Local Capacity for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Community-Based Prevention Marketing is a community directed social change process that applies marketing theories and techniques to the design, implementation and evaluation of health promotion and disease prevention programs and policies.
News and Headlines
College of Public Health Launches the Online Social Marketing Graduate Certificate Program
Coming August, 2011 University of South Florida, College of Public Health Launches the Online Social Marketing Graduate Certificate Program Beginning Fall, 2011, the University of South Florida, College of Public Health is offering a graduate certificate in social marketing that can be completed almost exclusively online. Students must complete four online graduate level courses, and then work with a mentor to conduct a field project and present the project to peers in a capstone seminar. For more information, contact Carol Bryant cbryant@health.usf.edu or Jim Lindenberger jlindenb@health.usf.edu. A list of common [...]

The College of Public Health at the University of South Florida is the parent organization for the Florida Prevention Research Center and is
supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cooperative agreement number 1-U48-DP-000062.