The National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer III, Nashville Coalition
Community Networks Program Objectives
- Establish a national network of African American cancer control experts and expert researchers, clinicians and others providing services to African Americans to deliver awareness and education activities in high prevalence cancer communities (HPCC)
- Implement capacity-building strategies within community-based coalitions
- Establish academic and clinical partnerships and development of relevant collaborative research projects
- Focus of outreach, education and training efforts on cancers disproportionately impacting African Americans (i.e., breast, cervical, colorectal, lung and prostate)
- Target identified cancer focus areas with best practices to be implemented through seminars, lectures, health fairs and other community outreach efforts
- Collaborate with national agencies concerned with cancer control
- Establish partnerships with major cancer care providers in an effort to increase African American accrual to treatment and prevention protocols
- Facilitate recruitment and training of more Black health care providers
Officers
Ms. Deborah Carpenter
President
Ms. Paula Hill
Co-Secretary
Not pictured:
Ms. Thoris Campbell
Co-Secretary
Ms. Navita Gunter
Vice President
Ms. Tonya Micah
Events Coordinator
