The The UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention addresses pressing health problems by collaborating with communities to conduct research, provide training, and translate research findings into policy and practice. The Center seeks to reduce health disparities through an emphasis on community-based participatory research to ensure that the community is involved in every stage of research. The CDC selected HPDP to be one of its first three Prevention Research Centers in 1985. Now comprised of 33 academic institutions, the PRC program is an interdependent network of community, academic, and public health partners that conduct prevention research and promote practices proven to promote good health.

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Threads of HOPE realizes business dream

Threads of HOPE, a community-based microenterprise that grew out of HPDP's ongoing HOPE Works study, landed the CDC's Prevention Research Center program (PRC) as its first customer. The PRC purchased the canvas HOPE bags for its annual conference held in Atlanta in March. During the opening plenary, approximately 300 conference participants listened appreciatively while six HOPE Works participants from economically-strapped rural North Carolina described their dream to develop a small, woman-owned business that capitalizes on the community's textile skills. See full story on CDC's PRC website.