Center on Health and Homelessness
Founded in 2024 with a lead gift from the Henson family, the Center on Health and Homelessness at the Georgia State University School of Public Health brings faculty, staff, students, and community partners together to conduct research and implement evidence-based interventions that addresses homelessness as a public health issue.

Prevention Research Center
The Georgia State University Prevention Research Center is part of a network of 20 academic research centers funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Georgia State's Prevention Research Center implements and evaluates interventions to address the health and well-being of residents of the Clarkston community.

Kreuter Katz Lecture
Launched in 2014, the Kreuter Katz Lecture brings thought leaders from across the nation to Georgia State to engage with our students, faculty, and Atlanta’s broader public health community. The public lecture is complemented by a research symposium that helps students and faculty make personal connections that can seed career opportunities and collaborations.

Vision 2027 Strategic Plan
Created through a collaborative and iterative process, the Vision 2027 Strategic Plan is guiding the continued growth of the School of Public Health. With four key goals supported by priority initiatives, it advances the school’s vision to achieve health equity through principled leadership in research, training and practice—locally, nationally and globally. A priority initiative is the creation of an interdisciplinary research center to support health equity research and training.

Southern Urban Research for Growth and Equity (SURGE)
The School of Public Health is leading the interdisciplinary Southern Urban Research for Growth and Equity (SURGE) initiative, which is working to engage Metro Atlanta communities of color to address health disparities and capacity building. The SURGE initiative is supported by seed funding from Georgia State President M. Brian Blake’s Research Innovation and Scholarly Excellence (RISE) challenge.

Urban Drivers of Resilient Youth scholars focus on understanding and intervening to improve young people’s personal capacities, their relationships with parents, peers, and teachers, and positive connections to their community and culture as the key factors to promote resilient youth.

The Mark Chaffin Centers for Healthy Development promotes the health, safety and well-being of children, adults and families through research, service, education, training and advocacy. It houses five centers:

• The Center for Leadership in Disability translates research into sustainable community practices that contribute to independent, self-determined, inclusive and productive lives for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities and their families;
• The Georgia Association for Infant Mental Health: Birth to Five builds culturally responsive preventive and therapeutic professional capacities to promote family, infant, and early childhood mental health development.
• The National Center on Child Trafficking uses a science-driven approach to guide the development, adaptation, implementation and evaluation of trauma-informed interventions and resources addressing sex and labor trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.
• The National SafeCare Training and Research Center implements nationwide the SafeCare model, an evidence-based family support program that has been shown to reduce child maltreatment; and
• Positive Childhood Alliance Georgia works to increase public awareness and implementation of programs and practices that prevent child abuse and neglect by developing trainings, educating communities and connecting families to resources.

The Mark Chaffin Centers also hosts the annual John R. Lutzker Lecture Series, which this year focused on centering race and racism in developmental science and in previous years has addressed issues such as barriers to addressing the mental health needs of Black youth.