Healthiest city in America, 2036

Tajh Boyd

Photo credit: Rainier Ehrhardt/AP IMAGES

Yesterday, Clemson announced it would be receiving $2.66M from the Greenville Health Authority Board.

  • $2.25M will go to Clemson’s public health sciences department + Clemson Cooperative Extension to fund a diabetes prevention and management initiative.
  • $410,000 will go to their School of Nursing to provide scholarships to nurse practitioner students

Why the funding? It’s a part of the Authority Board’s (previously the GHS Board of Trustees) 20-year pledge to make Greenville the healthiest city in America by 2036. Here’s to becoming a healthier city, Greenville.

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