About the Prevention Research Center

Vision

Communities that Support Physical Activity and Healthy Eating for All People

Mission

The USC PRC is committed to conducting research that benefits the public’s health and to translating research into practice. We promote physical activity and healthy eating through community-engaged intervention, training, dissemination, and applied prevention research.

Current Cycle

In the current cycle (2024-2029), the PRC received funding to support its applied public health prevention research project, as well as activities to support collaboration and partnerships, communication and dissemination, training and education, evaluation, translation, and infrastructure.

The USC PRC has established a research agenda to achieve its vision of Communities that Support Physical Activity and Healthy Eating for All People. Center activities are guided by the following aims:

USC PRC Profile [pdf]

  1. Establish and maintain a PRC infrastructure to conduct applied prevention and health promotion public health research (hereafter “prevention research”)
  2. Engage the Community Advisory Board (CAB) and other organizational partners to inform all prevention research projects, including the core research project
  3. Build capacity to conduct prevention research
  4. Communicate information about PRC activities to multiple audiences
  5. Conduct a dissemination and implementation (D&I) core research project to understand implementation of an evidence-based intervention that leverages social networks to support physical activity change among older African American adults through churches and disseminate and translate the evidence-based intervention and the dissemination products for scalability
  6. Participate in the PRC Network and collaborate with PRCs in the Network to increase the Network’s collective impact

Core Research

The USC PRC’s applied public health prevention research project is titled “Community-Based Participatory Research to Study Church Implementation of an Evidence-Based Social Support Intervention to Increase Physical Activity among Older African American Adults.” Learn more about the project here.

Other projects and activities

In addition to core funding, the USC PRC also seeks funding for projects related to our mission. Descriptions of our projects can be found on the Research page.

CDC Support

Supported by CDC Cooperative Agreement U48DP006780, the USC PRC is one of 20 university-based centers conducting applied research and practice in chronic disease prevention and control as part of the Prevention Research Centers Program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The USC Prevention Research Center (PRC) has been funded since 1993 as part of the Prevention Research Centers Program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).