Canyon Ranch Center for Prevention and Health Promotion

Center for Prevention and Health PromotionWelcome to the Canyon Ranch Center for Prevention and Health Promotion (CRCPHP) Website!

The mission of the CRCPHP is to partner with communities to improve the health and well-being of people living in the US-Mexico Border states through research, training, advocacy and policy change.

The CRCPHP houses diverse projects and activities that use community-based participatory action research to focus on the prevention of chronic disease in the border region. Each project within the CRCPHP relies on extensive community involvement and outreach. The CRCPHP houses the Arizona Prevention Research Center, which is funded by the CDC's Prevention Research Center (PRC) Program. The PRC Program is comprised of 35 academic institutions and is an interdependent network of community, academic, and public health partners that conduct prevention research and promote practices proven to promote good health.

 

Announcements

Regional Community Action Board (CAB) Meeting
The next Regional Community Action Board (CAB) meeting will be on Friday, April 30, 2010, from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm at The University of Arizona.  Please make plans to attend and we look forward to seeing you there!

Arizona Daily Wildcat

Grant targets obesity, health in border towns

By Jazmine Woodberry

Published: Monday, January 25, 2010

More than $3.9 million from the federal government will help the UA research obesity. It will also go toward promoting community health advocacy in towns along the Arizona-Mexico border. More...

KVOA-TV (NBC) Tucson

Grant seeks to find border health answers

January 18, 2010

http://www.kvoa.com/news/grant-seeks-to-find-border-health-answers/

UA gets $3.9M to battle obesity

Stephanie Innes Arizona Daily Star | Posted: Sunday, January 17, 2010

A University of Arizona program that targets a serious obesity problem among people living along the Arizona/Mexican border has received $3.9 million from the federal government. More...

Press Release: $3.9 M For Disease Prevention
UA Prevention Research Center receives $3.9 million grant More...

 

 
This website is supported by Cooperative Agreement Number 1U48DP001925-01 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the Arizona Prevention Research Center - Canyon Ranch Center for Prevention and Health Promotion (CRCPHP) and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.