The University of Iowa

Prevention Research Center

  
 
 
 
   
 


       

NEWS

PILOT GRANTS

The University of Iowa PRC has awarded a total of $45,000 in one-year grants to support pilot reseach projects aimed at improving the health of rural Iowans. The following three investigators were funded and were effective September 1st: Sandra Ramey Ph.D., College of Nursing, Gerald Rushton Ph.D., Department of Geography, and Kerry McGannon Ph.D., Department fo Health and Sport Studies.

CORE TRAINING

The PRC launched it first community organizing for rural environments (CORE) training in Sigourney, Iowa in July 2008. The workshop, facilitated by Theresa Armstead, Ph.D, included provision of the guidebook Community Organizing in Rural Environments: A Guidebook for Community Health Initiatives. The guidebook was developed by the PRC and CHAP partners. The goal of the workshop and guidebook is to assist community groups in building sustainable and successful organizations that target local health issues. Please see Press Releases under News for more information on these announcements.



    

Keokuk County Court House, Sigourney Iowa. Home of the Community Health Action Partnership (CHAP), one of the PRC's community partners. Site of keg registration passage in January 2004, a CHAP initiative.

 

The University of Iowa Prevention Research Center (PRC) was first funded in 2002. The Center is within the Department of Community and Behavioral Health in the College of Public Health. The PRC conducts community-based projects aimed at promoting the health and well-being of rural Iowans.

Our mission is to improve community health by working toward the elimination of health disparities in rural Iowa.  We will accomplish this by partnering with community groups and conducting research on health issues of importance to them    

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                        Community workshop led by Dr. Theresa Armstead (on left).

 
 

 
         
 

PREVENTION RESEARCH CENTER - UNIVERSITY OF IOWA - COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH

2190 WESTLAWN - IOWA CITY, IA 52242 - Phone: 319.335.8350 Fax: 319-384-4100