Abstract
Cancer health disparities are evident in many underserved and minority populations. Strategies to understand and intervene on these disparities are often complex and occur at multiple levels, and need input from investigators from various disciplines to understand the factors that impact these disparities. In addition, community members, who have the best understanding and knowledge of what is wrong, and how to address disparities in their communities, also need to be involved from the beginning to make relevant and long-lasting differences. The CPHHD initiative, started in 2003, has used 3 main principles to address cancer health disparities in a variety of underserved/minority populations in different regions of the U.S. These principles include: establishing transdisciplinary teams, guided by a theoretical framework developed by the CPHHD initiative to investigate the multi-level factors related to disparate health outcomes, using Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR). This presentation will describe the multi-level theoretical framework for addressing disparities and how transdisciplinary teams are formed and work together with communities to address disparities in breast, cervical, and prostate cancer among different underserved populations.
Citation Format: Electra D. Paskett. Building transdisciplinary teams to address cancer health disparities: The Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD) experience. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research; 2012 Oct 16-19; Anaheim, CA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Prev Res 2012;5(11 Suppl):Abstract nr ED05-03.
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