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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine. 1997. Linking Research and Public Health Practice: A Review of CDC's Program of Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5564.
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Linking Research and Public Health Practice

A Review of CDC's Program of Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Michael A. Stoto, Lawrence W. Green, and Linda A. Bailey, Editors

Committee to Review the CDC Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C.
1997

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine. 1997. Linking Research and Public Health Practice: A Review of CDC's Program of Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5564.
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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance.

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Funding for this project was provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (contract no. 200-95-0964). The views presented in this report are those of the Committee to Review the CDC Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and are not necessarily those of the funding organization.

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine. 1997. Linking Research and Public Health Practice: A Review of CDC's Program of Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5564.
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COMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE CDC CENTERS FOR RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATION OF HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION

LAWRENCE W. GREEN (Chair), Director,

Institute for Health Promotion Research, and

Professor of Health Care and Epidemiology,

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

NOREEN M. CLARK, Dean and Marshall H. Becker Professor of Public Health,

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

JOHN W. FARQUHAR, * Director,

Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention, and

Professor of Medicine,

Health Research and Policy, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

MARY DESVIGNES-KENDRICK, Director,

Houston Department of Health and Human Services, Houston, Texas

IRA S. MOSCOVICE, Professor and Associate Director,

Institute for Health Services Research, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

JAMES O. PROCHASKA, Director,

Cancer Prevention Research Center, and

Professor of Psychology,

University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island

RANDY H. SCHWARTZ, Director,

Division of Community and Family Health, Maine Department of Human Services, Bureau of Health, Augusta, Maine

LEE SECHREST, Professor,

Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

HAROLD C. SOX, JR., * Chair,

Department of Medicine, and

Joseph M. Huber Professor of Medicine,

Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire

KENNETH E. WARNER, * Richard D. Remington Collegiate Professor of Public Health,

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

IOM Staff

Michael A. Stoto, Director,

Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Linda A. Bailey, Study Director (until September 1996)

Donna Thompson, Administrative Assistant

* Member, Institute of Medicine.

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Preface

In 1986, Congress authorized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop a program of university-based research centers to undertake research projects in health promotion and disease prevention and to demonstrate the use of new and innovative research in public health techniques to improve public health. A decade later, after the prevention research center program grew from 3 initial centers to 13, the director of the CDC Division of Adult and Community Health, which oversees the program, requested of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) an evaluation of the overall program. To execute this study, the IOM established the Committee to Review the CDC Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, which has prepared this report.

The broad mission of the prevention research centers program—to contribute to a fuller understanding of how the health of communities, and the nation, can be improved—can be achieved only through the sustained cooperation of a diverse array of professionals and nonprofessionals who have roles in influencing the health of communities, who have competing goals and priorities, and who have little history of engaging in long-term, cooperative efforts. Consistent with this understanding, the committee took a broad view of how prevention research can influence the health of communities, considering not only the proximal risk factors for disease prevention, but also the more distal conditions for health promotion and improved equity in the distribution of risk factors.

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On a practical level, the committee recognized the difficulty of conducting community-based prevention research. The committee examined how a prevention research center could foster collaboration among these different groups and overcome the barriers separating universities from their surrounding communities. It also considered the need for high-quality research that produces research findings relevant to other communities, states, and regions.

The committee brought together expertise in prevention research, behavioral sciences, preventive medicine, clinical medicine, community health, health promotion and education, rural health, health services research, research administration, evaluation sciences, epidemiology, and public health practice at the state and local levels. Committee members met three times between March and July 1996. CDC staff and some of those who advocated for the program while it was being considered by the Congress joined the committee for its first meeting.

In addition to its regular meetings, members of the committee and its staff conducted site visits to prevention research centers in New York, North Carolina, and New Mexico, and to the CDC offices in Atlanta responsible for the direction and funding of the program. The director of the prevention research center at the University of Washington met with the committee during its July meeting. Telephone interviews, following detailed review of documents and written responses, were conducted with senior staff of the remaining nine centers. Informal contacts were made with others, including public health officials in the states and localities in which the centers are located. The site visits, meetings, reports, and telephone interviews gave the committee the opportunity to discuss important issues with prevention research center researchers and their collaborators, such as the challenges of developing innovative research projects, conducting demonstration projects in underserved communities, improving public health practices, and disseminating research findings.

The committee is grateful for the input it received from many individuals at its meetings, during site visits, in writing, and in other ways. The prevention research center directors and co-directors and the CDC staff who responded to the committee's surveys and participated in site visits are listed in Appendix C. Bo Barrow, Don Benken, Roger Bulger, Michael Eriksen, Patricia Evans, Michael Gemmell, D.A. Henderson, Martha Katz, Lloyd Kolbe, James Marks, David McQueen, Gil Omenn, and Jean Smith participated in the committee's meetings or provided information for the committee. Patricia Riley, the CDC program director, was especially generous of her time and energy. The committee also thanks the IOM staff responsible for the project, including Linda Bailey, who was responsible for organizing the committee's meeting, site visits, and interviews, and for background research and writing; Donna Thompson, for project assistance; Marnie Muscoplat and Kimberly Tremel, who provided

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research support; and Michael Stoto, the director of the IOM Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, in which this project was housed.

In this report the committee concludes that the CDC prevention research centers program has had substantial progress and its participants are to be commended for its contributions to health promotion and disease prevention. The report proposes a set of recommendations intended to strengthen the quality and management of the program as it begins its second decade of work. By strengthening the program, the prevention research centers can contribute even more to local, state, and national efforts to improve the health of Americans.

Lawrence W. Green, Chair

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A Review of CDC's Program of Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

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Health promotion and disease prevention are central priorities in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vision. To advance research in these areas, Congress authorized and CDC established a program of university-based Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention to explore improved ways of appraising health hazards and to serve as demonstration sites for new and innovative research in public health. Begun in 1986 with three centers, there are now fourteen. In response to a CDC request to evaluate the program, Linking Research and Public Health Practice examines the vision for the prevention research centers program, the projects conducted by the centers, and the management and oversight of the program. In conducting the evaluation, the IOM committee took a broad view of how prevention research can influence the health of communities, and considered both the proximal risk factors for disease prevention and the more distal conditions for health promotion and improved equity in the distribution of risk factors. Month?

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