title: Creating community-academic partnerships for cancer disparities research and health promotion.
abstract: To effectively attenuate cancer disparities in multiethnic, medically underserved populations, interventions must be developed collaboratively through solid community-academic partnerships and driven by community-based participatory research (CBPR). The Tampa Bay Community Cancer Network (TBCCN) has been created to identify and implement interventions to address local cancer disparities in partnership with community-based nonprofit organizations, faith-based groups, community health centers, local media, and adult literacy and education organizations. TBCCN activities and research efforts are geared toward addressing critical information and access issues related to cancer control and prevention in diverse communities in the Tampa Bay area. Such efforts include cross-cultural health promotion, screening, and awareness activities in addition to applied research projects that are rooted in communities and guided by CBPR methods. This article describes these activities as examples of partnership building to positively affect cancer disparities, promote community health, and set the stage for community-based research partnerships.
authors.affiliation: H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, University of South Florida, 12902 Magnolia Drive, FOW-EDU, Tampa, FL 33612, USA. cathy.meade@moffitt.org
authors.forename: Cathy D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Meade
authors.forename: Janelle M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Menard
authors.forename: John S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Luque
authors.forename: Dinorah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Martinez-Tyson
authors.forename: Clement K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Gwede
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D003144:Communication Barriers; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000379:methods*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D004522:Educational Status; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D005431:Florida / Q000453:epidemiology; D006205:Haiti / Q000208:ethnology; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D011203:Poverty; D014495:Universities