In recent decades, treatments for cancer have improved and deaths due to cancer have decreased. But unfortunately, not all Americans benefit equally from these successes. Many groups in Wisconsin and nationwide, often defined by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, experience a greater burden of cancer along the entire continuum from prevention to detection, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, and end-of life.
The goal of the Cancer Health Disparities Initiative at the UW Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC) is to build the capacity of UWCCC members, campus partners, and community members to conduct cancer health disparity research in order to reduce the unequal cancer burden experienced by populations in Wisconsin and beyond. To do so, CHDI supports research development, provides technical assistance, builds partnerships between the Carbone Cancer Center, UW organizations, affiliates, and underserved populations across the state, and promotes training and educational opportunities. Through these activities, CHDI facilitates research opportunities that address inequities in the cancer burden.
CHDI Resource Center
CHDI has developed an on-line resource center which provides regularly updated news and information about cancer health disparities. The CHDI Resource Center also contains updates regarding funding, conferences, and events as well as links to CHDI reports, tools, other resources and a video archive.
Visit the CHDI Resource Center.
CHDI Affiliate Program
The CHDI Affiliate Program serves as a forum that provides affiliates with resource information, technical assistance in building relationships between communities and faculty, research mentorship, and training opportunities. We invite faculty, academic staff and representatives of community organizations to join us in creating a rich learning community committed to reducing cancer health disparities.
Interested parties can sign up using our web-based membership form.
Spirit of EAGLES
The Spirit of EAGLES program addresses comprehensive cancer control through partnerships with tribes, the Network for Cancer Control Research among American Indian / Alaska Native populations, multiple cancer centers, the American Cancer Society (ACS) and many other partners. Spirit of EAGLES at UW is a program of CHDI.
Visit the UW Spirit of EAGLES website.
Rural Cancer Disparities Project
Our outreach staff work with rural communities in the UW Carbone Cancer Center catchment area to promote cancer education and control activities and increase rural patients' access to timely and appropriate screening, treatment, supportive care and clinical trials.
In the news: UW Carbone Cancer Center Joins with Adams County to Study Cancer Patterns
For more information, please contact Rebecca Linskens, Community Health Educator.
