A Strong Vision for a Healthier Georgia

Tomorrow’s Good Health Starts Today

A healthy diet …
regular physical activity…
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 page)