Abstract

The Health Communication Core provides expert consultation and a full range of professional creative services, delivering cost-efficiency and added value to DF/HCC investigators. The centralized resource offers complete communication-related consultation and professional creative services to support DF/HCC investigators who are applying for external grant funding, implementing interventions, recruiting study subjects or disseminating research findings. As a result, DF/HCC researchers have easy access to such state-of-the-art services as development, production, and testing of communication material and experts in health communication and behavioral sciences. This facility has been continuously funded by the CCSG since 2000. Director: Kasisomayajula (Vish) Viswanath, PhD (DFCI) Category: 3.01 and 3.06 (Health Communications) Management: Joint (Cancer Center and Institutional).

Public Health Relevance

The Health Communication Core provides evidence-based communication expertise to Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) investigators working in the areas of cancer prevention, control, treatment, and survivorship.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Center Core Grants (P30)
Project #
5P30CA006516-49
Application #
8601500
Study Section
Subcommittee G - Education (NCI)
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2013-12-01
Budget End
2014-11-30
Support Year
49
Fiscal Year
2014
Total Cost
$219,289
Indirect Cost
$60,776

  Institution

Name
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Department
Type
DUNS #
076580745
City
Boston
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
02215

  Publications

Mohr, Stephanie E; Rudd, Kirstin; Hu, Yanhui et al. (2018) Zinc Detoxification: A Functional Genomics and Transcriptomics Analysis in Drosophila melanogaster Cultured Cells. G3 (Bethesda) 8:631-641
Odiaka, Emeka; Lounsbury, David W; Jalloh, Mohamed et al. (2018) Effective Project Management of a Pan-African Cancer Research Network: Men of African Descent and Carcinoma of the Prostate (MADCaP). J Glob Oncol :1-12
Mills, Evanna L; Pierce, Kerry A; Jedrychowski, Mark P et al. (2018) Accumulation of succinate controls activation of adipose tissue thermogenesis. Nature 560:102-106
Oser, Matthew G; Fonseca, Raquel; Chakraborty, Abhishek A et al. (2018) Cells Lacking the RB1 Tumor Suppressor Gene are Hyperdependent on Aurora B Kinase for Survival. Cancer Discov :
Choudhury, Atish D; Gray, Kathryn P; Supko, Jeffrey G et al. (2018) A dose finding clinical trial of cabozantinib (XL184) administered in combination with abiraterone acetate in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Prostate :
Watson, Noreen L; Mull, Kristin E; Heffner, Jaimee L et al. (2018) Participant Recruitment and Retention in Remote eHealth Intervention Trials: Methods and Lessons Learned From a Large Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Web-Based Smoking Interventions. J Med Internet Res 20:e10351
Pednekar, M S; Nagler, E M; Gupta, P C et al. (2018) Scaling up a tobacco control intervention in low resource settings: a case example for school teachers in India. Health Educ Res 33:218-231
Braun, Danielle; Yang, Jiabei; Griffin, Molly et al. (2018) A Clinical Decision Support Tool to Predict Cancer Risk for Commonly Tested Cancer-Related Germline Mutations. J Genet Couns 27:1187-1199
Santana-Codina, Naiara; Roeth, Anjali A; Zhang, Yi et al. (2018) Oncogenic KRAS supports pancreatic cancer through regulation of nucleotide synthesis. Nat Commun 9:4945
Cox, Andrew G; Tsomides, Allison; Yimlamai, Dean et al. (2018) Yap regulates glucose utilization and sustains nucleotide synthesis to enable organ growth. EMBO J 37:

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