Community Medicine Program Centers

 

The Community Medicine Program Centers offer a range of grant funded research based initiatives; from driving safety, to smoking cessation and obesity interventions, to continuing education for healthcare professionals and outreach to community organizations.

These centers serve to promote the holistic mission of the Department of Family and Community Medicine by providing for a variety of essential program areas.  In collaboration with State Farm Insurance and other supporters, the Unintentional Injury Prevention Center creates and disseminates toolkits for motor vehicle safety instruction for parents and in minority communities.

Culturally sensitive health care intervention education opportunities for providers combined with action to resolve health care and education access disparities in underserved populations are addressed via the Area Health Education Centers Program of Tennessee (AHEC). 

The Center for Healthy Families provides programming that is highly collaborative and community involved; developing novel mechanisms for prevention and treatment of key health problems like nicotine addiction and obesity.

Research into health disparities in underserved ethnic and racial minority populations along with the development of new programs and studies to find clinical solutions are facilitated by EXPORT.  

The Southeastern Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Regional Training Center, in partnership with Morehouse School of Medicine, University of Louisville, University of Tennessee, and Tennessee State University, provides training for health professionals and students throughout the southeastern United States from experts on fetal alcohol syndrome spectrum disorders and prevention. 

Together, these program centers support the complimentary goals of the Family and Community Medicine Department.