The International Academy for Preventive Medicine is headquartered on the Airlie campus. It is a non-profit organization governed by physicians, scientists, educators and policy makers who are dedicated to advances in preventive medicine, health promotion, and environmental and population/migration studies.

Environmental Studies - Swan Research Program
www.trumpeterswans.org

Environmental Studies - Swan Research Program located on the Airlie Center campus is a division of The International Academy for Preventive Medicine, Inc.; and is a non-profit research and education organization concerned with the protection and restoration of wetland habitats and their native inhabitants. Dr. Tom Wood, Director, and his staff work to refine techniques of teaching rare and endangered waterfowl long-lost migration routes using ultralight aircraft and, more recently, a gas balloon. The Program has received much national and international publicity, even spawning the Hollywood film Fly Away Home. As part of its educational effort, the Environmental Studies Program hosts public seminars and workshops and offers Airlie Center conferees guided tours of its field station, Clifton Farm, and its unique, captive, free-swimming collection of swans, the largest in the Eastern United States.