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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.
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