Massachusetts Cancer Prevention Community Research Network (MCPCRN)

UpdatesCPCRN Los Angeles MeetingOctober 7 – 8, 2008

Collaborators

• Harvard Prevention Research Center (HPRC)

• Boston University Prevention Research Center (BUPRC)

• Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Risk Reduction Program (DF/HCC)

Key Community Partners

• American Cancer Society, NE Division• MA Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalition• Mass CONECT (NCI - CNP)• DF/HCC Community Engagement Committee• Cancer Information Services (CIS) NE Region• United for Health Haitian Coalition (“Inite Pou

La Sante”)• Latino Health Insurance Network

Presentation Overview

• Community Engagement– Training– Technical Assistance

• Research• Future Directions

– “Using What Works”; Cancer PLANET• 5 United Way/Jimmy Fund organizations (n=48)• 6 month post-evaluation planned• 29 Komen Foundation grantees

– Peer leader training for CRC prevention in subsidized housing

– Coalition serving Haitian community• Training on evidence-based interventions• Training for CNA’s around EBA’s for cancer screening

Community Engagement:Examples of Training

Community Engagement:Examples of Technical Assistance

• Community Coalition (Mission Hill)– community needs assessment– program development– evaluation

• Haitian and Latino churches– Breast, cervical, prostate and CRC interventions

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Research Update – Examples from Key Themes

• HPV prevention• Worksites• Dissemination

HPV Research: Bridging Communities to Research

• National survey of parental attitudes toward HPV

• Focus groups among parents re: HPV vaccine

• Development and testing of educational brochure for parents providing information re: HPV

• Focus groups among men re: knowledge, attitudes toward HPV and vaccine

Worksite Research

Improving the Health of Native Employees (Bowen)

Harvard School of Public Health Center for Work, Health, and Well-Being (Sorensen)

Dissemination Research

• PLANET MassCONECT to Promote Evidence-Based Intervention (Viswanath)

• Implementing Evidence-Based Health Promotion Through Health and Welfare Funds (Sorensen)

Under review: Comprehensive Worksite Cancer Prevention – Preparing for Dissemination (Sorensen)

KO5: Emmons

Future Directions

• Strengthening the bridges between community engagement and research

• Ongoing focus on disparities in cancer prevention• Expanding contributions to dissemination research in

multiple venues• Build further collaborations across the CPCRN

– Dissemination research– HPV– Community engagement