Prevention Research Centers: Perspective for the Future

Historical Perspective Cancer Prevention Research: Back to the Future

This issue of the journal marks the first anniversary of the print editions of Cancer Prevention Research (CaPR), which seems a good time to reflect on the remarkable history of the field that CaPR is dedicated to enriching. It is fortuitous that CaPR's first anniversary coincides with the publication of “Cancer Prevention: From 1727 to Milestones of the Past 100 Years” in Cancer Research (1), ...

The Prevention Research Centers Healthy Aging Research Network

BACKGROUND The Prevention Research Centers Healthy Aging Research Network (PRC-HAN), funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Healthy Aging program, was created in 2001 to help develop partnerships and create a research agenda that promotes healthy aging. The nine universities that participate in the network use their expertise in aging research to collaborate with the...

The Role of the Injury Prevention Research Centers in Promoting the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Research Agenda

Unintentional and violence-related injuries represent one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States and have a profound impact on the physical, emotional, and economic lives of our society. Among persons aged 1-34 years, unintentional injuries alone claim more lives than any other cause; homicide is the second leading cause of death for persons aged 15-24 years. In 1...

Future Marine Zooplankton Research- A Perspective

During the Second Marine Zooplankton Colloquium (MZC2) 3 issues were added to those developed 11 yr ago during the First Marine Zooplankton Colloquium (MZC1). First, we focused on hot spots, i.e., locations where zooplankton occur in higher than regular abundance and/or operate at higher rates. We should be able to determine the processes leading to such aggregations and rates, and quantify the...

Rabies--Epidemiology, Prevention, and Future Research