Abstract

? The Massachusetts Community Networks to Eliminate Cancer Disparities through Education, Research, and Training (MASS CONECT) is a comprehensive program initiative that will uniquely unite the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) with multiple community partners in three urban Massachusetts communities of low socioeconomic position (SEP). MASS CONECT will advance cancer education, community-based participatory research (CBPR), training (for junior faculty, grassroots leaders, and the media), and services for low SEP minority populations in Massachusetts. The three communities are Boston and Worcester (the two largest cities in New England), and Lawrence (the poorest city in New England). In these communities, MASS CONECT will unite key partners, including major policy makers, to develop effective ways to reduce cancer disparities.
Our specific aims are to intervene in each of these low SEP Massachusetts communities to improve data on community-level cancer disparities (using formative research on community perceptions of cancer disparities data and also geocoding and mapping techniques); provide leadership, cancer education, and training through respected community coalitions; educate and train local media to increase their coverage of stories on cancer disparities; promote access to key cancer control and treatment services through a prevention and clinical services core; provide needs assessments that will lead to a community-specific plan to address gaps (including identifying policy opportunities to overcome barriers to optimal cancer control and treatment); evaluate outcomes related to cancer disparities in the three target communities (including outcomes relevant to prevention and screening, disparities research, and coverage of cancer disparities in the media); and establish relationships with NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Populations Sciences and the NCI Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities ? ?

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Research Project--Cooperative Agreements (U01)
Project #
1U01CA114644-01
Application #
6925599
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZCA1-SRRB-Y (J1))
Program Officer
Das, Rina
Project Start
2005-05-06
Project End
2010-04-30
Budget Start
2005-05-06
Budget End
2006-04-30
Support Year
1
Fiscal Year
2005
Total Cost
$500,000
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Harvard University
Department
Public Health & Prev Medicine
Type
Schools of Public Health
DUNS #
149617367
City
Boston
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
02115

  Publications

Braun, Kathryn L; Stewart, Susan; Baquet, Claudia et al. (2015) The National Cancer Institute's Community Networks Program Initiative to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities: Outcomes and Lessons Learned. Prog Community Health Partnersh 9 Suppl:21-32
Clark, Cheryl R; Baril, Nashira C; Achille, Erline et al. (2014) Trust yet verify: physicians as trusted sources of health information on HPV for black women in socioeconomically marginalized populations. Prog Community Health Partnersh 8:169-79
Ackerson, Leland K; Ramanadhan, Shoba; Arya, Monisha et al. (2012) Social disparities, communication inequalities, and HIV/AIDS-related knowledge and attitudes in India. AIDS Behav 16:2072-81
Ramanadhan, Shoba; Salhi, Carmel; Achille, Erline et al. (2012) Addressing cancer disparities via community network mobilization and intersectoral partnerships: a social network analysis. PLoS One 7:e32130
Seidenberg, Andrew B; Caughey, Robert W; Rees, Vaughan W et al. (2010) Storefront cigarette advertising differs by community demographic profile. Am J Health Promot 24:e26-31
Lobb, Rebecca; Ayanian, John Z; Allen, Jennifer D et al. (2010) Stage of breast cancer at diagnosis among low-income women with access to mammography. Cancer 116:5487-96
Wallington, Sherrie Flynt; Blake, Kelly D; Taylor-Clark, Kalahn et al. (2010) Challenges in covering health disparities in local news media: an exploratory analysis assessing views of journalists. J Community Health 35:487-94
Koh, Howard K; Oppenheimer, Sarah C; Massin-Short, Sarah B et al. (2010) Translating research evidence into practice to reduce health disparities: a social determinants approach. Am J Public Health 100 Suppl 1:S72-80
Wallington, Sherrie Flynt; Blake, Kelly; Taylor-Clark, Kalahn et al. (2010) Antecedents to agenda setting and framing in health news: an examination of priority, angle, source, and resource usage from a national survey of U.S. health reporters and editors. J Health Commun 15:76-94
Lobb, Rebecca; Allen, Jennifer D; Emmons, Karen M et al. (2010) Timely care after an abnormal mammogram among low-income women in a public breast cancer screening program. Arch Intern Med 170:521-8

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