About the Core

The University of Chicago’s Prevention and Control (P & C) Core aims to develop and evaluate ways to improve diabetes care and prevention in real-world settings, particularly among vulnerable groups such as African Americans, indigent patients in community health centers, older adults, and minority children. The Chicago P & C Core takes the view that patient, provider, health care system, and social system factors affect the quality of diabetes care and patient outcomes, and thus each of these elements must be targeted to maximize the chances of improving care. In addition, as patients grow from children to adolescents to adults to older persons, each developmental stage of life brings specific issues and challenges that must be addressed to optimize health outcomes. The University of Chicago P & C Core draws upon a longstanding history of innovation in educational and behavioral interventions, more recent expansion of expertise and recruitment of new senior and junior investigators in the past grant cycle, special strengths in community-based participatory research through collaborations with a consortium of Midwestern community health centers, and the unique strengths of a university with world-class strengths in the social sciences and biomedical sciences relevant to diabetes care.

Director: Marshall Chin, M.D.
Co-Directors:
Deborah Burnet, M.D.
Melinda Drum, Ph.D.