Prevention “oscars” goes to Slovenians

International Collaborative Prevention Research Award

It is with great pleasure to announce that the Recognition and Honors Committee with nominations from the membership of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) has selected the team of Matej Košir and Sanela Talić, Director and Head of Prevention Programmes at the Institute for Research and Development »Utrip« from Slovenia, to receive the 2020 […]

Growing need for advocacy knowledge and skills in prevention science and practice

Advocacy skills are essential for the public health scientists, researchers and practitioners to potentially influence policy- and decision-making processes for better health-related policies. Those skills are important especially in those public health areas where so-called unhealthy industries are influential and/or (at least) want to be important stakeholders in the field (such as alcohol and tobacco […]