The Center for Community Health Development (CCHD) at Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health, since its inception in 2001, has worked to bring academic and community partners together to reduce the burden of preventable diseases and conditions that affect rural and underserved populations in communities across Texas. While most of its work has been focused on the Brazos Valley and South Texas, CCHD has provided services in more than 100 of Texas’ 254 counties and this number continues to grow each year.

The Center for Community Health Development is a member of the Prevention Research Centers Program. Funding was made possible (in part) by cooperative agreement number 1U48 DP001924 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).