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Are you interested in improving the health and well-being of North Carolina residents? Healthy Communities Initiative is a multidisciplinary group, including collaborators from cardiovascular sciences, health information, behavioral medicine, and public health. We are interested in systematically collecting and analyzing the distribution, disease conditions, health behaviors, environmental factors and other characteristics of chronic disease and out of hospital premature death.

With our home base at ECU, we have close and convenient proximity to our region of interest, eastern North Carolina. With ECU’s mission to serve eastern North Carolina and to improve the quality of life and health of its residents, Healthy Communities Initiative seeks to become a national leader in out of hospital premature death research and prevention.