Prevention Research Strategy A general roadmap for the overall
prevention strategy that embraces the concept of a childhood
population-based approach is shown below: JDRF will focus
financial and non-financial resources on prevention of the onset
of type 1 diabetes in childhood using childhood population-
targeted approaches. By leveraging data and biosamples from type
1 diabetes natural history studies, a childhood-onset type 1
diabetes preventive strategy can be developed that takes
advantage of current infant-childhood health care practices.
Both pre-beta cell autoimmunity and post-beta cell autoimmunity
prevention are being targeted based on the concept that pre-beta
cell autoimmunity prevention, though more cost effective and
ultimately desired, is higher risk and will take longer to
deliver than post-beta cell autoimmunity prevention. JDRF’s pre-
autoimmunity prevention strategy focuses on developing
preventive vaccines for universal infant/childhood immunization
that target: - Common infectious causes th