Researching and Reducing Cancer-Related Health Disparities
One in four deaths in the United States is attributable to cancer, and one in three Americans will eventually develop some form of cancer. Each day, 3,400 people in America are diagnosed with cancer and another 1,500 die from the disease. But the burden of cancer is too often greater for the poor, ethnic minorities, and the uninsured than for the general population. Learn More ...
News and Updates
NIH Administrative Supplements Released!
We’re delighted to inform you that in addition to the Challenge Grant RFA, the NIH Administrative Supplements have been released.
There are a number of opportunities that will be of interest! Be sure to check both the NIH and the NCI American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) Grant websites. Please pay close attention to the CRCHD opportunities and feel free to contact the staff member listed for specific questions.
Grant Information:
Dr. Howard Koh nominated for Assistant Secretary of Health at DHHS!
Dr. Howard Koh, a grantee with the CRCHD’s Community Networks Program (CNP), was recently nominated by the President to serve as the Assistant Secretary of Health at DHHS. Dr. Koh is the Principal Investigator for the Massachusetts Community Networks to Eliminate Cancer Disparities through Education, Research, and Training (MASS CONECT).
CRCHD’s Patient Navigation Research Program highlighted in Parade Magazine
See the recent Parade article (March 30 issue) for an excellent overview of PNRP and patient navigation benefits.
New Faces at CRCHD
As part of an ongoing expansion, CRCHD is pleased to welcome Dr. Rina Das, Dr. Carmen Moten, Dr. John Ojeifo, Dr. Anil Wali, and Dr. Ming Zhao to our family!
Dr. Rina Das joins our staff as a Program Director in the Diversity Training Branch and will be administering grant programs designed to improve diversity of cancer research within the workforce through training, career development, the MI/CCP program, and investigator initiated programs.
Dr. Carmen Moten joins our staff as a Program Director/Health Scientist Administrator in the Disparities Research Branch. She will be working to plan, develop, and manage programs that address the clinical, behavioral or population science research. She will also serve as Co-Program Director on a geographically based disparities research initiative.
Dr. John Ojeifo joins our staff as a Program Director and will be managing CRCHD's Career Development Awards, as part of our CURE Program. He is a cancer biologist by training, and formerly worked at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC) at Georgetown University.
Dr. Anil Wali joins our staff a Program Director in the Diversity Training Branch. He will be providing technical and scientific expertise and grants program administration guidance to trainees and early stage investigators.
Dr. Ming Zhao joins our staff as a Program Director in the Disparities Reserach Branch and will be developing programs that address the biological factors related to cancer disparities. Prior to joing CRCHD he worked as a senior scientist at the GE Global Research Center and as a scientist at Pfizer.
Welcome! Meet the Staff
CRCHD Presents to NCI’s Board of Scientific Advisors
Drs. Meade, Kaur, and Cooper presented to the Board of Scientific Advisors. Their presentations captured some of the work the CRCHD's Community Networks Program (CNP) projects have been doing over the past few years, laying a strong foundation for the upcoming program reissuance.
Outstanding Participation at the 2009 AACR Conference
The 2nd annual, co-sponsored AACR-NCI conference, “Science of Cancer Health Disparities,” hosted over 400 researchers and practitioners. The agenda nicely balanced presentations in basic and applied science related to cancer health disparities, and the poster sessions provided a terrific platform for many of our junior investigators to present their research.
We are looking forward to working with the AACR on next year’s conference, to be held in the fall of 2010.
