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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Med. 2019 Aug 29;129 Suppl:105824. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2019.105824

Table 2.

Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network, 2014–2019

Center Research Populations
Case Western Reserve University This center focuses on urban and metropolitan areas, community health clinics, tobacco cessation programs, and community-clinical linkage intervention using an e-referral. Urban and metropolitan areas
Oregon Health & Science University This center focuses their cancer prevention efforts in collaboration with American Indian/Alaska Native and rural populations. Investigators’ expertise is related to diet and physical activity and their roles in cancer prevention. American Indian/Alaska Native and rural populations
University of Iowa This center focuses on rural and micropolitan areas, Latinos and African American populations, and projects to enhance dissemination of HPV vaccinations. Rural and micropolitan areas
Latinos and African American populations
University of Kentucky This center focuses on the rural Appalachian region, systematic approaches to offering cancer screening services at every office encounter, and multilevel interventions to increase cancer screening. Rural Appalachia
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill This center focuses on testing and comparing the effects of 2 capacity-building interventions on practitioners’ a) capacity to plan and implement EBIs, b) quality of EBI, and c) EBI impact on targeted outcomes; and comparing cervical cancer and obesity interventions.
University of Pennsylvania This center focuses on implementation of EBIs to increase CRC screening in primary settings for disadvantaged and minority adults in federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), community-engaged scholars programs, evidence academies (one-day single theme meetings on local epidemiologic assessments of cancer incidence and mortality risk factors and health disparities). Disadvantaged and minority adults in FQHCs
University of South Carolina at Columbia Arnold School of Public Health This center focuses on continuing the work of CPCRN with FQHCs, continuing minigrants - grantees partner with FQHCs to implement an EBI directed at multiple levels, mapping cancer rates in geographic space, and neighborhood-level social factors. FQHCs
University of Washington This center focuses on increasing EBIs to improve cancer screening to community health centers, state and local health departments and workplaces, in addition to the limited English-proficient population. Community health centers
State and local health departments
Workplaces
Limited English-proficient populations