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Contact Information: Georgia Prevention Institute HS-1640 Medical College of Georgia Augusta, GA 30912-3710 Phone: (706) 721-4534 FAX: (706) 721-7150 |
A Strong Vision for a Healthier Georgia
Tomorrow’s Good Health Starts Today
A healthy diet …
regular exercise …
smoking cessation …
stress reduction….
These basic tenets of good health are well-known. But in the past few years, scientists have made unprecedented progress in understanding the implications of lifestyle on wellness and longevity. The Medical College of Georgia, the state’s health sciences university, has consistently been well ahead of the curve in this vital area.
In 1981, the University System of Georgia Board of Regents established the Georgia Institute for the Prevention of Human Diseases (informally known as the Georgia Prevention Institute, or GPI) in the Department of Pediatrics to research health promotion and disease prevention, mainly in youth.
The GPI’s original focus on hypertension has broadened to incorporate
areas including kidney disease, diabetes, congestive heart failure and
cancer. Extensive multidisciplinary and clinician/scientist collaboration
provides a vast range of expertise enabling multiple perspectives on a
single issue. Its physiologic, genetic, epidemiological and interventional research is
wide-ranging and far-reaching—but always with the common goal of improving
the health of society, both today and tomorrow. (next
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