'prevalent interest' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe when something has a wide or very active interest. For example, "The new video game has a very prevalent interest among gamers."
Despite an already highly rigorous selection process and prevalent initial interest in academic careers, 60% of UCSF students in their third year or later would choose a career path beyond the traditional academic path.
All human work, be it in the sciences or anything else, depends on a broader context which supports it, and the activities that are associated with the social interests prevalent at any given time affect the direction of scientific research.
Access to capital was reported as a major barrier for both small and medium enterprises and large enterprises, especially with the high interest rates prevalent locally.
If associations can only be demonstrated in cross-sectional analyses, in populations in which the specified health outcome of interest is prevalent at the time of capability assessment, it is not possible to determine the direction of any associations given that poor health could influence physical capability levels.
Even at the best of times between Russia and China -- during the 1920's and then in the 1950's when Mao Zedong and Stalin signed a pact -- the strains were almost as prevalent as the mutual interests.
Our diplomatic and financial support for autocratic regimes that serve U.S. interests is prevalent around the globe.
It would also expose the allocation of public funds to a public-interest test (instead of the prevalent one, based on bureaucratic self-interest).Reform would be painful for the finance ministry, revealing years of mismanagement and concealed losses.
The identification of multiple, tumor specific antigens may facilitate the use of more effective polyvalent cancer vaccines; however, this requires the identification of multiple aberrantly expressed genes, as well as an understanding of the patterns of expression that are prevalent in the tumor of interest [15], [16], [31].
Medicare claims data were used for identifying prevalent and incident conditions of interest throughout the observation period.
After grouping variables in the three categories of interest, the most prevalent forms of perceived discrimination were due to mental illness/substance use (33%) and homelessness/poverty (30%).
