The George W. Comstock Center for Public Health Research and Prevention

• Conducts research on the prevention of disease, particularly heart disease, cancer and stroke
• Provides a base of operations for faculty and students who are interested in community-based research
• Serves as a resource for the Washington County (Maryland) Health Department in the areas of public health surveillance and assessment

The Comstock Center is involved in several multisite epidemiologic studies in Hagerstown described in this web site. Under the new direction of Josef Coresh, MD, PhD, professor of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Comstock Center is expanding its activities and is engaging a wider community of scientists, students and prevention experts across multiple departments inside and outside the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The Comstock Center is named in honor of the late George W. Comstock, a world renowned leading epidemiologist who helped shape the epidemiology of tuberculosis and who trained generations of leaders in the field.