Cancer Control and Health Equity Program (CCHE)

Cancer Control and Health Equity

CCHE Specific Aims

  • Identify biological, environmental, behavioral, social, and policy determinants of cancer risk and inequities to inform cancer prevention and control interventions
  • Discover and integrate signal transduction events regulating tumor-immune cell interactions to expand our understanding of tumor evolution, the immune suppressive tumor microenvironment, and therapy resistance
  • Determine the causes and consequences of epigenetic dysregulation in cancer and identify novel epigenetic targets for anti-cancer therapy
CCHE Aims
CCHE Specific Aims

CCHE Future Directions

  • Release program-specific RFAs with a focus on collaborative team science, thus promoting collaborations within the program
  • Facilitate connections with CTOP and CCHE members to create translational research opportunities, enhancing the bench-to-bedside-to-community
  • Submit Cancer Biology T32 renewal application in September 2024

Program Leaders

Douglas Evans

Program Leader

Douglas Evans, PhD, MA

Tony Yang

Program Leader

Tony Yang, ScD, LLM, MPH

 

Carla Berg

Associate Center Director
Population Sciences and Policy

Carla Berg, PhD, MPA, LP