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Enhancing cancer control programmatic and research opportunities for African‐Americans through technical assistance training
Author(s) -
Satcher David,
Sullivan Louis W.,
Douglas Harry E.,
Mason Terry,
Phillips Rogsbert F.,
Sheats Joyce Q.,
Smith Selina A.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.22159
Subject(s) - medicine , training (meteorology) , cancer , control (management) , medical education , gerontology , management , physics , meteorology , economics
African‐Americans remain severely underrepresented in cancer control program delivery and research. Community‐based organizational leaders and minority junior investigators have received little attention as representatives of target populations, or as agents to deliver and evaluate efforts to eliminate cancer health disparities. This paper describes activities of the National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer II: Network Project, which has sought to address these issues. Community leaders and junior investigators received technical assistance (TA) and mentoring to develop applications for cancer education and community‐based participatory research (CBPR) projects. TA was provided to 35 community leaders and 32 junior investigators. Twenty‐nine community leaders won funding through the Community Partners for Cancer Education Program. Three pilot research applications were funded. Technical assistance may improve minority recruitment/retention in CBPR cancer control research and enhance understanding and elimination of cancer health disparities among African‐Americans. Cancer 2006. © American Cancer Society.