The NIMH-Funded Prevention Research Training Program in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is aimed at increasing the number of university faculty and research staff in mental health agencies who can develop, implement and teach prevention research. The program is designed to train prevention researchers at the postdoctoral level. The program is aimed at increasing the number of university faculty and research staff in mental health agencies who can develop, implement, evaluate and teach prevention research. Opportunities for independent research within the context of the Johns Hopkins Prevention Center, as well as and participation in the Center's ongoing research, foster a collegial environment for flexibly pursuing various training objectives and career goals. Postdoctoral training is designed to prepare prevention researchers with a public health orientation in the departments of psychiatry, psychology, human development and sociology. The postdoctoral training emphasizes opportunities for independent research and participation in the ongoing research in a Prevention Research Center. Coursework is specifically designed to develop knowledge and skills in preventive intervention strategies, methods of measuring psychopathology in populations, epidemiologic methods for identifying risk factors, prevention research design, and ways to elicit community and institutional cooperation in preventive intervention research. | 
