Leadership | Cancer Unit Partnerships
Cancer Research Programs
Developing and Implementing a Cancer Prevention and Control Research Curriculum
Funded By: National Cancer Institute
Project Period: 2010 – 2015
Principal Investigator: Lee S. Caplan, MD, PhD, MPH
The purpose of this project is to develop and execute a cancer prevention and control
curriculum training program at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) that will help
prepare professional students in public health and in the biomedical sciences for
positions in cancer prevention and control research. The curriculum will be based
on a framework for addressing cancer prevention and control from bench to bedside
to the community and will emphasize research targeted at reduction and elimination
of cancer disparities.
REACH U.S. (Racial and Ethnic Approached to Community Health/SUCCEED Southeastern
Center US Collaborative CEED)
Funded By: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Project Period: 2007 – 2012
Principal Investigator: Daniel S. Blumenthal, MD, MPH
MSM PRC is an established Center of Excellence in the Elimination of Disparities (CEED)
known as the Southeastern US Collaborative CEED, or “SUCCEED.” SUCCEED seeks to eliminate
disparities in breast and cervical cancer among African American women. The project
provides training and technical assistance to agencies and organizations throughout
the region in evidence-based strategies to increase breast and cervical cancer screening
among African-Americans and also provides training and technical assistance in community
coalition-building, using the Community Organization and Development for Health Promotion
model.
Healthcare Disparities: Partnerships with NCCCP and the Community Networks Program
(CNP) Institutions to Increase Screening in Racial / Ethnic Minority and Other Underserved
Populations.
Funded By: National Cancer Institute
Project Period: 2010 – 2012
Principal Investigator: Sandra Hamilton, RN
This project underwrites a partnership between Morehouse School of Medicine and the
Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer Center and Research Pavillion of the St. Joseph's/Candler
Health System in Savannah, which is a member of the National Cancer Institute's National
Community Cancer Center Program. The purpose of the partnership is to increase cancer
screening among minorities in the Savannah area.
Colorectal Cancer Screening Intervention Project (CCSIP)
Funded By: Georgia Department of Community Health
Project Period: 2010 – 2011
Principal Investigator: Selina Smith, PhD, MDiv
MSM is providing training to facilitators in five of Georgia's Regional Cancer Coalitions
to conduct EPICS, the Educational Program to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening.
EPICS was tested in a community intervention trial at the MSM PRC and shown to be
efficacious.
Acceptability of the HPV Vaccine among low income African American and Hispanic male
adolescents, their parents, and healthcare providers.
Funded By: National Cancer Institute (Supplement to MI/CCP)
Project Period: 2010 – 2011
Principal Investigator: Nicole Martin, MD, MPH
This qualitative research project explores the attitudes of African-American and Hispanic
male adolescents, their parents, and their healthcare providers toward the human papillomavirus
vaccine.
Developing a Community Health Educator (CHE) Education/Outreach Plan
Funded By: National Cancer Institute (Supplement to MI/CCP)
Project Period: 2010 – 2011
Principal Investigator: Lisa Hinton, MPH
In this project, our Community Health Educator will work with the Atlanta Cancer Awareness
Partnership to develop a plan for cancer community outreach.
Collaborative Community Engagement Research
Funded By: National Center for Research Resources (Drew subcontract)
Project Period: 2010 – 2011
Principal Investigator: Sandra Hamilton, RN
MSM is one of several sites conducting community outreach as part of the Research
Centers in Minority Institutions Translational Research Network.
Minority Institution/Cancer Center Partnership
Funded By: National Cancer Institute
Project Period: 2006-2011
Principal Investigator: Daniel S. Blumenthal, MD, MPH
This infrastructure program includes 3 pilot research projects, a full research project,
and cores in biostatistics, bioethics, community outreach, cancer education, research
training and career development, planning and evaluation, and administration. Major
project goals are to: build research and training capacity at MSM; create stable,
long-term collaborations between MSM, Tuskegee University and the University of Alabama,
Birmingham (UAB) Cancer Center in research, training, career development, and outreach;
improve effectiveness of the UAB Cancer Center research, education, and outreach for
underserved populations; export successful approaches for addressing disparities to
all cancer centers and other key networks and consortiums.
National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer III: Community Networks Program (NBLIC
III: CNP)
Funded By: National Cancer Institute, Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities
Project Period – 2005 – 2011
Principal Investigator: Daniel S. Blumenthal, MD, MPH
Website: National Cancer Institute
Building on established community partnerships, the NBLIC III: Community Networks
Program (NBLIC III: CNP) at the Morehouse School of Medicine is a large-scale national
Community Networks Program aimed at reducing cancer health disparities among African
Americans. The 20-year-old National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer utilizes
its core infrastructure, which includes a National Office; three Regional Research
Offices (e.g., MSM/Southern; University of Illinois at Chicago/Midwestern; Charles
R. Drew University of Medicine and Science/Western; and Eastern, with support from
the National Office); and 33 volunteer community coalitions in 29 states to reach
its overall goal of reducing cancer health disparities for African Americans by developing
collaborations that enhance existing community partnerships. These partnerships address
the disconnect between delivery systems and community-based participatory education,
research and training in the African-American community.