Progress depends on our solidarity, coordination of efforts, and commitment to a multidisciplinary framework. Your membership in SPR is important and your attendance and participation at the upcoming meeting are integral to the future of prevention research and practice. The preliminary program of the upcoming meeting will be posted on the SPR homepage soon. The Society for Prevention Research comprises scientists, practitioners and administrators committed to the improvement of prevention intervention through empirical investigation. The focus of the society is broadly defined and concerned with the problems pertaining to the prevention of psychiatric, behavioral, substance abuse and medical disorders.
Membership is open to qualified professionals interested in multidisciplinary interactions.
Prevention sciences, encompassing etiology, epidemiology and intervention, are represented in the Society by practitioners and researchers engaged in multifaceted research on health and social problems. At the annual meeting of the Society, formal presentations, workshops and informal discussion afford the opportunity for the advancement of theory and methods pertaining to research and to disseminate new findings pertinent to the improvement of prevention practice.