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University of Illinois at Chicago Receives $8.1 Million for Public Health Research, Training |
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Three separate grants were funded: Prevention of Disease The Illinois Prevention Research Center at UIC received a five-year, $4.1 million grant from the CDC to help eliminate health disparities and create healthy communities through research, training and sharing knowledge. The grant will fund the center's largest research project, aimed at preventing and controlling diabetes in Latino and African-American populations.
Training Tomorrow's Researchers The UIC School of Public Health received a three-year, $2.7 million grant to train a key group of public health research scientists skilled in disease prevention and disaster preparedness.
Health Promotion Research The Center for Research on Health and Aging at UIC received a three-year, $1.3 million grant to study cost-effective health promotion for older workers. Read more from this post.
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