Additional Research Projects
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funds the Prevention Research Centers Network (PRCs) to conduct research on significant chronic diseases in the U.S. The PRCs work as an interdependent Network of community, academic, and public health partners to study how people and their communities can avoid or reduce their risk for chronic diseases. Researchers at PRCs can also apply for funding to conduct Special Interest Projects (SIPs) to enhance research in specific areas and fill gaps in science identified by the CDC.
Some SIPs collaborate with other PRCs to work together building communities of practice, known as Thematic Research Networks, that advance science in specific topic areas. In 2024, the CDC funded 10 SIPs, including six Thematic Research Networks, across the United States. Mountain West Prevention Research Center (MW-PRC) researchers were awarded two of the ten SIPs in the nation. Each of these SIP projects operates within a Thematic Research Network, which are the Arthritis Management and Wellbeing Research Network and the Center Prevention and Control Research Network (CPCRN), respectively.
Through the MW-PRC, researchers at the University of Utah are eligible to apply for SIPs Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs).
Arthritis Research
The Arthritis Management and Wellbeing Research Network (AMWRN) works to improve quality of life for people with arthritis, including promoting solutions that help reduce the impacts of arthritis, increasing access to care for arthritis patients, and improving arthritis-specific health outcomes, such as pain and physical function. More information about this MW-PRC SIP can be found through the BeatPain Better Research Project.
Cancer Research
The Center Prevention and Control Research Network (CPCRN) focuses on reducing the burden of cancer through community-engaged research that studies the promotion and use of proven cancer programs while working to increase the use of these programs in communities. More information about this MW-PRC SIP can be found through the Lung Cancer Screening Research Project.
The Mountain West Prevention Research Center is supported by the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Center (1U48DP006789), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, or the U. S. Government.
