'Imi Hale - Native Hawaiian Cancer Network

Project Description

The overall goal of the 'Imi Hale - Native Hawaiian Cancer Network is to reduce cancer incidence and mortality among Native Hawaiians by maintaining and expanding an infrastructure that: (1) promotes cancer awareness within Native Hawaiian communities; (2) provides education and training to increase cancer prevention and control research by Native Hawaiian researchers; and (3) facilitates the application of evidence-based information to the reduction of cancer health disparities through policy development and implementation and translation of data into cancer prevention and control practice.

The Network, housed at Papa Ola Lokahi¹, will collaborate with key partners at the community, state, and national levels to provide support systems and expertise to: (1) provide a core organizational infrastructure; (2) increase utilization of proven interventions to reduce disparities; (3) increase the number of Native Hawaiians participating in community-based research to reduce cancer health disparities through recruitment, training, and mentorship; (4) promote research that focuses on the spectrum of issues relevant to cancer health disparities, with an emphasis on developing interventions that can be used in and by Native Hawaiian communities; and (5) provide evidence-based information on reducing cancer health disparities to decision and policy makers at the community, local, state, and Federal levels.