THE NIH PATHWAYS TO PREVENTION PROGRAM

The NIH training grant program. A program in trouble?

Two pathways to prevention.

Health promotion and disease prevention programs are becoming important components of contemporary health care. There are at least 2 pathways to the enhancement of population health status through disease prevention. The first pathway requires the early diagnosis and treatment of disease. The second pathway promotes healthy lifestyles and disregards the requirement that a condition must be diag...

Translating evidence based violence and drug use prevention to obesity prevention: development and construction of the pathways program.

Effective school-based obesity prevention programs are needed to prevent and reduce the growing obesity risk among youth. Utilizing the evidence-rich areas of violence and substance use prevention, translation science may provide an efficient means for developing curricula across multiple health behaviors. This paper introduces Pathways to Health, a school-based obesity prevention program that ...

New Pathways to Disease Prevention

VOLUME 115 | NUMBER 2 | February 2007 • Environmental Health Perspectives As scientists, communication—not only with those outside our area of expertise but also with those within our scientific sphere—is an important responsibility, though often an ongoing challenge. As NIEHS director, I increasingly realize that, as the writer André Gide said, “The most important things to say are those which...

The NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Program: bonding scientists and clinicians

The majority of the biomedical research workforce and funds are focused on studying common diseases and the development of drugs to treat them. However, some of the most remarkable discoveries in physiology and medicine are uncovered by studying rare conditions, because the importance of certain molecular mechanisms is revealed only when their dysfunction results in disease. In 2008, the Nation...