About the Workshop
Building 35
Rooms 610/620/630/640
Health outcome differences are prevalent and adversely affect millions of people across the United States and globally. Differences in cancer burden are evident by socioeconomic class and geography, and across population groups. They are not only due to barriers in access to health care – a key determinant, but also due to geographic and cultural factors, environmental disadvantage, ancestry-related risk factors, co-morbidities and disabilities, and chronic stress exposure. These factors can cause differences in cancer risk and outcome, leading to an excessive cancer mortality in exposed and underserved communities.
The workshop will discuss recent progress and future directions in health disparities research with cancer as a disease focus. The aim of the workshop is to inform participants about the progress in reducing cancer disparities, the applied methods, and health disparities research within the NIH intramural community and to foster collaboration across NIH and the research community at large. The workshop also seeks to discuss existing gaps and challenges, and the translation of research findings.
Topics
- Health Disparities Research: From Design to Translation
- Community Engagement: Strategies for Success
- Methods & Approaches into Causes, Prevention & Intervention of Health Disparities
- Society to Cell to Outcome Framework
- Health Disparity Research at the NIH
- Successful Public/Patient/Research Partnerships
- Opportunities and Challenges to Advancing Health Disparity Research
- How Scientists Can Promote Research Findings
- Global Cancer Health Disparities
This workshop is open to the public and co-sponsored by the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities and the National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research and the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics.
There is no registration fee, but those who are not a U.S. citizen or do not possess a U.S.-issued Green Card, must pre-register at least 30 days prior to the conference to gain in-person access to NIH campus. More information can be found under the Security tab.