Prevention Research Centers' Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network: UPenn Prevention Research Center

University Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA

Investigators

Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY The University of Pennsylvania Prevention Research Center (UPenn PRC) is submitting this application to become a Collaborating Center of the Prevention Research Centers’ Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network (CPCRN). This center will work with partners to accelerate the implementation of evidence-based cancer prevention and control strategies. The UPenn PRC’s CPCRN Collaborating Center will be an active participant in the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network, engaging in research and practice activities that span the translation continuum from discovery to the dissemination and adoption, maintenance and sustainability of effective interventions. Promoting health equity in underserved and minority communities through improved access to evidence-based cancer prevention and control strategies is a major focus of the CPCRN center’s activities. The UPenn PRC Collaborating Center of the CPCRN will lead and manage a program of community-based cancer prevention and control research. The Center will strengthen partnerships to advance community-based intervention research in cancer prevention and control; translate and disseminate study tools, methods, and findings; and expand community-engaged dissemination and implementation research related to cancer prevention and control. Our center’s main activities will include CPCRN Network participation, collaboration on CPCRN Network workgroup projects, a core research project, and a training initiative. The core research project will implement and evaluate evidence-based strategies to increase cancer risk assessment and risk- stratified management for breast and colorectal cancer, for disadvantaged and minority adult patients at Federally Qualified Health Centers. The CPCRN Scholars Program will help to prepare the next generation of cancer prevention and control implementation science and health equity researchers. The diverse leadership of the proposed CPCRN center team has extensive experience in intervention and dissemination and implementation research, cancer prevention and control, and community-based participatory research. This center will support the work of a multidisciplinary team of co-investigators with expertise in cancer epidemiology, health services research, cancer screening, genetic counseling and testing, health disparities research and action, and health communication. Together with the network and our partners, this CPCRN center will advance research across the translation continuum to promote the adoption of effective cancer prevention and control interventions.