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Here you see school children who were about to participate in a footrace during their outdoor physical education class, which was taking place at one of the many metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia primary schools. Such energetic activity would help to burn off calories, and pent up energy accrued while sitting at their schoolroom desks during their indoor classes. Aside from a place to gather and play together, the schoolyard provided a wide array of athletic choices, allowing them to exercise all aspects of their growing bodies.
Caucasian woman on bicycle

The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center

A CDC Prevention Research Center

The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (PRC) is part of the Yale School of Public Health, based in New Haven CT, and co-housed at Griffin Hospital in Derby, CT.

Our PRC was established in 1998 through a grant from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). We are part of the CDC’s Prevention Research Centers network of 25 academic research centers based in 22 states across the U.S. PRCs work with community partners to develop, implement, and evaluate community-based approaches to help prevent and control chronic diseases.

In addition to our community-based research funded by the CDC and other sources, the Yale-Griffin PRC also conducts clinical research to investigate the role of nutrition in promoting health and preventing chronic diseases.

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Farmers' Market at Griffin Hospital

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Youth cooking program

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Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center is a member of the Prevention Research Centers Program, supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cooperative agreement number 1U48DP005023-01.

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