| | Center For Public Health And Health Policy Research (CPHHPR)
Health promotion and disease prevention,
particularly primary prevention through community engagement and
community-based interventions, is the central mission of public health, and
therefore, an essential component of an academic public health program such as
the Graduate Program in Public Health. The Center for Public Health and
Health Policy Research (CPHHPR) is collaboration between the Graduate Program
in Public Health and the Suffolk County Department of Health Services (SCDHS)
created through a Memorandum of Understanding in January 2006.
The CPHHPR seeks to develop joint projects with
researchers at Stony Brook University and with health and human services agencies
and community-based organizations throughout Long Island. With a special
emphasis on suburban health, the CPHHPR will focus on and provide expertise on
issues including health disparities, family violence, youth and gang violence,
nutrition, needs assessment, reproductive health, health communications, health
literacy, workforce development, and sustainability and capacity building for
health-related community-based organizations. The CPHHPR will bridge the gap
between community health needs and research by working directly with
communities to understand their health issues and the problems they experience
and to develop research for prevention and interventions, particularly policy and environmental interventions, to address
those needs.
As partners with the
Center for Communicating Science within the Stony Brook University's School of
Journalism, CPHHPR researchers and
community-based organizations will participate in and provide interdisciplinary
workshops aimed at enhancing and
understanding of science by helping train the next generation of
scientists and health professionals to communicate more effectively with the
community, public officials, the media, and others outside their own
discipline Our goal is to create an
infrastructure that fosters communication among researchers engaging in
community-based research and enhances interdisciplinary relationships between
and among the five SBU Health Sciences Schools. CPHHPR is committed to
improving the health and well being of the residents of Long Island through
public health policy analysis and rigorous public health research on the most
critical public health issues.
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