{"id":3368,"date":"2023-06-30T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/leadership\/five-university-centers-to-study-cancer-inequities-linked-to-poverty\/"},"modified":"2023-06-30T12:00:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T12:00:03","slug":"five-university-centers-to-study-cancer-inequities-linked-to-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/?p=3368","title":{"rendered":"Five University Centers To Study Cancer Inequities Linked To Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Biden Administration has announced the award of $50 million – spread over five years – to sponsor five university-based centers to study and reduce the effects of persistent poverty on cancer incidence and outcomes.<\/p>\n

Coordinated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the new Persistent Poverty Initiative will address factors associated with chronic poverty that affect cancer care and prognosis.<\/p>\n

With the investment, five Centers for Cancer Control Research in Persistent Poverty Areas will be created to tackle several priorities associated with the Cancer Moonshot, including reducing poverty-associated risks of cancer and preventing more cancers by reducing tobacco use and improving nutrition.<\/p>\n

Persistent poverty areas are defined as those where, for the past 30 years, 20% or more of the population has lived below the federal poverty line. According to NCI, people who live in such areas have a higher incidence of cancer, experience delays in cancer diagnosis and treatment, and are more likely to die from cancer than people who do not live in poverty. However, there has been limited research on how to improve cancer outcomes in persistent poverty areas. The new centers are intended to address that gap in understanding.<\/p>\n

\u201cPersistent poverty is a place-based and community phenomenon that reflects a failure of the structures and institutions in society, including health care,\u201d said Shobha Srinivasan, Ph.D., senior advisor for health disparities and health equity in NCI\u2019s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences. \u201cConducting research to understand the connections between institutions \u2014 such as social, economic, and health systems \u2014 and persistent poverty is the only way to inform changes to social conditions and determinants of health that will ultimately improve overall health, cancer control, and cancer outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Each center will work with low-income communities to implement and measure the effectiveness of interventions for cancer control and prevention, follow-up care, and survivorship.<\/p>\n

They will conduct research in areas such as reducing obesity, improving nutrition, increasing physical activity, helping people quit smoking, and improving living conditions through supplemental income. In addition, the centers will help train early-career investigators to work with underserved communities on cancer-related topics.<\/p>\n

The five awards were made to :<\/p>\n