The Center for Violence Prevention serves to facilitate the conduct of violence prevention related research by Health Science Center faculty and students. The Center for Violence Prevention provides support services, including public speaking, development and critiquing of manuscripts, peer review of grant proposals, and content experts with respect to any category of abuse. Additionally, consultation services are available for topic areas such as program evaluation, qualitative analysis, software packages for qualitative analysis, participatory action research, and community-campus partnership development.

Current members of the Center include faculty and students from the UTHSCSA who represent various disciplines and specialties and who are dedicated to violence prevention.