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The goal of the Cancer Care Initiative is to work with partnering communities to reduce disparities in cancer education, care access, and health outcomes among Native American families. We aim to develop community-based interventions that are rooted in culture and circumvent local barriers.
We partner closely with the Indian Health Service units in communities to concurrently analyze data on screening coverage, incidence rates, and corresponding demographic profiles. Click below to learn more about our current efforts.
- TEAM Program (Tablet-based Education to Improve Acceptance of Mammography): a culturally tailored patient education intervention in Chinle, Arizona (Navajo Nation)
The overall goal of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention to promote breast cancer screening (mammography) among women in the Chinle, Arizona, Navajo Nation community. The intervention, “TEAM” (Tablet-based Education to improve the Acceptance of Mammography), was developed using a community-based participatory research process (IRB 00009578). - CARE Program (Community, Awareness, Resilience, Empowerment): a patient navigation intervention involving Apache women’s health coaches in Whiteriver, Arizona (White Mountain Apache Tribe).
The overall goal of the CARE Program is to circumvent barriers to mammography screening among women in the White Mountain Apache community through an innovative patient navigation model, which includes culturally tailored education. The intervention (CARE + COACH) was developed using a community-based participatory research process (IRB00022667) which builds on formative work done with the community to identify specific barriers to cancer screening.