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Working with communities
from within to prevent
and reduce chronic disease.
A proud member of the National PRC Network, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 
Upcoming Events
 PRCHN Seminar Wed., March 12@Noon
"The Affordable Care Act: Implications for Public Health and Prevention"
Johnie Rose, MD, PhD
 PRCHN Seminar Wed., April 9@Noon
"Individual & Contextual Effects on Perceptions of Neighborhood Scale"
Claudia Colton, PhD
 

PRC Broadcast
We Run This City Program receives big award
Congratulations to our partners at the Cleveland YMCA's We Run this City Program for receiving the national Youth Running Program of the Year Award in San Diego! 
Youth and Violence:Risk, Response & Recovery
Our own PRCHN Community Initiatives Manager Jean Frank will speak as part of a panel about youth violence Feb. 27 at the Schubert Center for Child Studies on campus. 
Check us out on Facebook and Twitter!
We're not just in it for ourselves! The PRCHN Facebook and Twitter pages have lots of information about webinars, Tweet chats, and other exciting local & national news about public health.   
New gateway to nicotine addiction
The percentage of U.S. teens using e-cigarettes doubled from 2011 to 2012.  Listen to more about the disturbing trend in this NPR report.  
The 'State of Public Health'
What is the state of public health in the U.S. today?  CDC Director Tom Frieden lets us know in this annual interview with APHA. 
Eight million lives saved and counting
A half century of tobacco control has saved 8 million lives, but there's still work to be done, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).  
PRCHN Seminar Series kicking off the new year
Welcome Back! THe PRCHN Seminar Series is kicking off the new year with a brand new batch of seminars for you.  First up: "Do We Have the Courage to Prevent Disease?"  presented by Mary Holmes, President, Innovative Farmers of Ohio. 
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