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Eliminating Tobacco Disparities through Community-based Participatory Research and Outreach

Friday, August 17, 2012: 8:30 AM
2209 (Kansas City Convention Center)
Dr. Elisa Tong, MD, MA , Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA
Dr. Pebbles Fagan, PhD, MPH , University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI
Dr. Leslie Cooper, PhD, MPH, BSN, RN , NCRR, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this presentation attendees will be able to:

  1. Define the National Cancer Institute's Community Networks Program aims to reduce cancer health disparities
  2. Describe the 25 CNP networks' tobacco-related activities in research and outreach with 6 racial/ethnic and underserved population groups
  3. Assess the CNP community-based participatory research model for addressing tobacco-related health disparities

Cross Cutting Program Area(s): Cessation and Evaluation and Surveillance

Audience: Academic, government, and community members interested in minority racial/ethnic groups (African American, American Indian/Alaskan Native, Asian American, Latino, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander) and the underserved.

Key Points:

1)  In 2005, the National Cancer Institute funded the Community Networks Program (CNP), which is a promising model for engaging the community on tobacco-related health disparities.  The CNP overall aims to reduce cancer health disparities in minority racial/ethnic and underserved groups through community-based participatory research, education, and training.  Although there was no mandate to address tobacco, nearly all 25 CNP networks conducted tobacco-related research and outreach activities with their respective communities. This underscores how tobacco use and exposure is a major causes of disparities across the cancer continuum among minority racial/ethnic and underserved groups.   

2)  Tobacco represented the highest proportion of CNP cancer-related publications (11.9%), many reflecting surveillance, psychosocial, and treatment research.  Leveraged partnerships with other organizations, a strategy encouraged by the CNP, helped boost productivity. We use a tobacco disparities research framework and a case-study approach to describe how the CNP model and its tobacco-related activities contribute to understanding and reducing tobacco-related disparities.  

Educational Experience: The audience will learn the key points through highlighted examples of research or outreach activities in the different minority racial/ethnic and underserved groups.  We will highlight the methods, findings, and potential application for tobacco control community-based research and efforts.

Benefits: This panel will highlight the value of community-based participatory research for different minority racial/ethnic groups and the underserved, along with discussing future directions and applications for tobacco control and disparities.

See more of: Toward Eliminating Health Disparities Through Partnerships, Participatory Research and Outreach
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