Connecting Implementation Science, Community-Engaged Research, and Health Promotion to Address Cancer Inequities in Massachusetts: The UMB/DF-HCC U54 Outreach Core

Overview

Journal Am J Health Promot

Date 2021 Dec 23

PMID 34939446

Citations 4

Authors

Shoba Ramanadhan

S Tiffany Donaldson

C Eduardo Siqueira

Charlotte Rackard-James

Elecia Miller

Jamiah Tappin

Natalicia Tracy

Sara Minsky

Aileene A Maldonado-Campos

Carmenza Bruff

Sitara Mahtani

Marina S Teixeira

Vish Viswanath

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Abstract

The Outreach Core of the U54 Partnership between the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and the University of Massachusetts Boston created a new model for addressing cancer inequities that integrates implementation science, community-engaged research, and health promotion. Key elements of the approach include engaging a Community Advisory Board, supporting students from underrepresented minority backgrounds to conduct health promotion and community-engaged research, increasing the delivery of evidence-based cancer prevention programs to underserved communities (directly and by training local organizations), supporting research-practice partnerships, and disseminating findings. Our model highlights the need for long-term investments to connect underserved communities with evidence-based cancer prevention.

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