The University of Texas School of Public Health



University of Texas Prevention Research Center

 

Resources

 

Presentations

We Can Do More -- Meeting the challenges of teen pregnancy

Podemos Hacer Mas -- Respondiendo a los retos de los embarazos en adolescentes 
(We Can Do More - Spanish version) 

Entertainment-Public Health Summit at Emory University on May 17, 2007 

The Prevention Research Centers Program: 20 Years of Excellence -
Jo Anne Grunbaum, CDC PRC Program

History and Future of Prevention Research: Achieving Dissemination Success -
Lawrence W. Green, University of California at San Francisco

What's In It For Me?: How Prevention Research (Centers) Benefits Community Partners - 
Linda Forys, Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services

School Health in Texas- CAG member Kelly Cline, Region IV Education Service Center

Community Health Resources Web site - Phase I 

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Factsheets

Teen pregnancy and sexual health

Other

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Training and Education

Addressing Social Determinants of Health: Accelerating the Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB, External Consultation - summary of the external consultation on social determinants of health (SDH) held in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 9–10, 2008

Continuing Education in Health Promotion 

Social Marketing for Nutrition and Physical Activity 

Community-Based Prevention Research training seminar 

SOPARC training and lecture (photo slide show)

Title V Family Planning Services Policy and Procedure Manual (FY 2007) 

"Family Involvement in Middle and High School Students' Education" (profiles evaluated programs to show what works to promote family involvement and student achievement during this critical developmental period)

Issues in Healthcare: Legislative Update 

Need help talking to your child about sex? (Interactive materials developed by UTPRC investigators, available on Planned Parenthood of Houston website)

Health Marketing Matters at CDC (podcast series)

Positive Deviance materials:
PowerPoint presentation (March 6, 2008)
PowerPoint presentation (March 2, 2008)
PowerPoint presentation (PD approach in Pakistan)
Change Champions Fieldguide
Do What You Can, With What You Have, Where You Are
Emerging; The MRSA Issue
Harvard Business Review; Your Company's Secret Change Agents
Applying the Concept of Positive Deviance to Public Health Data 
 

 

Models

UTPRC Logic Model 

Logic Model Basics
Sundra D, Scherer J, Anderson L. "Section 3: Logic Model Basics", A Guide on Logic Model Development for the CDC's Prevention Research Centers. Prevention Research Centers Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, April 2003. 

Developing a Logic Model
Sundra D, Scherer J, Anderson L. "Section 3: Developing a Logic Model", A Guide on Logic Model Development for the CDC's Prevention Research Centers. Prevention Research Centers Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, April 2003.

National Conceptual Framework for the PRC Program
Sundra D, Scherer J, Anderson L. "National Conceptual Framework for the PRC Program", A Guide on Logic Model Development for the CDC's Prevention Research Centers. Prevention Research Centers Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, April 2003.

  

Links

www.thecommunityguide.org - free resource to help you choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in your community

New Voices for Research blog - discuss ways to advocate more effectively and improve communication of science

findyouthinfo.gov/default.aspx

www.cdc.gov/prc 

www.modelprograms.samhsa.gov 

www.cancercontrol.cancer.gov 

Information on Positive Deviance:
http://www.plexusinstitute.org/complexity/index.cfm?id=4
http://www.plexusinstitute.org/complexity/index.cfm?id=3