The Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium Public Health and General Preventive Medicine Program was awarded over $2.9 million for a five-year training grant. The Primary Care Training and Enhancement-Community Prevention and Maternal Health grant will allow the program to create a one-year preventive medicine training option for residents who have completed internal or family medicine residencies. The focus of this program will be population maternal health.

Karen R. Studer ’10, the principal investigator and program director, said, “This grant will have a significant impact on the women of the Inland Empire by allowing collaboration between multiple local organizations.”

Funding comes from the Health Resources and Services Administration and will be distributed in annual installments of $595,049 per year over five years.