Emory University Receives $6.2M Grant

  ATLANTA (AP) - Emory University has received a $6.2 million
grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help
continue research on preventing cancer.
    The Emory Prevention Research Center, opened in 2004, will use
the money over the next five years to figure out how to reduce
health disparities among residents in rural southwest Georgia. The
center is one 35 CDC-funded prevention research centers across the
country.
    The center works with 33 rural counties in southwest Georgia and
funds trained coaches who go into homes to assess residents’ eating
and exercise habits. The coaches will help the families make more
healthy choices.