What is Preventive Medicine?
Our division focuses on improving health and preventing disease across diverse populations. Although we are in Atlanta, our work is global, influencing the well-being of our community and our world.
We conduct research to better understand the chronic and acute disease, how to prevent conditions through lifestyle and wellness, and what policy and procedures can better enhance our systems and government.
Our results are implemented into real-life clinical practice and into larger, complex healthcare system policy all with the goal of promoting healthier, longer lives with fewer actualized complications from easily preventable conditions.
The Division of Preventive Medicine collaborates with multiple healthcare systems including:
- Emory Healthcare
- Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
- Grady Health System
Governmental agencies
Housed within the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, our faculty see patients in:
- Family medicine clinics
- Infectious disease clinics
- Childhood obesity prevention programs
- HIV clinics
- Travel medicine clinics.
The partnerships we have developed across multiple settings has allowed us to pursue research, grants, and residency rotations that are unparalleled.
