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Harlem Hospital Center

• Harlem Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
  
  Mary T. Bassett, M.D. M.P.H.,
  Director
  
  Joanne Toran, M.P.A.,
  Administrator
  
  Harlem Hospital Center
  506 Lenox Avenue, NNR 524
  New York, NY 10037
  
  Tel: 212 939-4150
  Fax: 212 939-4144
  
  Hours: Monday through Friday:
  9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
  
  The mission of the Harlem Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention is to reduce excess mortality and morbidity in the Harlem community. The Center works in partnership with community-based organizations, academic institutions, government and private agencies to achieve its mission through the following activities: assessment of the health status of the Harlem community and examination of the risk factors and protective factors that contribute to health status planning, implementation and evaluation of prevention research programs and strategies designed to reduce mortality and morbidity in the Harlem community and training future generations of prevention researchers, including students, health care workers and members of the Harlem community.