Abstract IA01: It doesn't have to be this way: What is public health doing to address health equity in cancer?

Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. Overall, public health is concerned with protecting the health of entire populations. These populations can be as small as a local neighborhood or as big as an entire country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) main mission is to collect and analyze data to show where differences in outcomes occur and to design and implement programs to alleviate these differences. Dr. Richardson will present on the role of CDC’s cancer control programs in identifying these differences and what they are doing address them. CDC works in collaboration with other governmental organizations and community leaders to lessen the cancer burden for everyone.

Citation Format: Lisa C. Richardson. It doesn't have to be this way: What is public health doing to address health equity in cancer? [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Twelfth AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; 2019 Sep 20-23; San Francisco, CA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2020;29(6 Suppl_2):Abstract nr IA01.