Prevention research focuses on individual behaviors, interpersonal relationships, physical environments, and societal factors that influence health and wellbeing. Prevention research includes studies that identify and assess risk and protective factors, develop and evaluate prevention interventions, and translate and disseminate effective preventive interventions into practice.
The Prevention Research Centers (PRCs) are a network of 26 academic research centers in the United States that study how people and their communities can avoid or counter the risks for chronic illnesses.
The mission of the UNM PRC is to address the health promotion and disease prevention needs of New Mexicans through community-engaged, science-based, health promotion and disease prevention research. We fulfill this mission through collaboration, training, dissemination, and evaluation activities.
The UNM PRC has about two dozen research, evaluation and intervention projects in New Mexico. You can see these on our interactive map.
The University of New Mexico Prevention Research Center recognizes that racism against black, indigenous, Hispanic and other people of color is a public health crisis that requires action. Additionally, we understand that New Mexico is a state where people of color make up the majority of the population and that the University of New Mexico is a federally designated Hispanic-Serving Institution. We also concede that we are an institution with predominantly white individuals in positions of power and that these individuals benefit from the privilege of structural and systematic racism. For complete statement click here.
The PRC has a Community Advisory Council (CAC) to ensure that communities are involved in the Center’s activities. Members are selected based on their experience, involvement and commitment to health promotion, disease prevention and other health issues of New Mexicans, and include representatives from tribal organizations, schools, state and federal health organizations, community members, and university faculty and staff. Photo: UNM PRC CAC December 2019 meeting
Phone: 505-272-4462
Fax: 505-272-3955
prc@salud.unm.edu
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Mailing Address
MSC11 6145
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Physical Location
2703 Frontier Ave NE
Research Incubator Building (RIB) Suite 120