The Section for Health Equity in NYU Langone’s Division of Health and Behavior offers a Cancer Research Track in which our experts investigate ways to ensure that populations for whom health disparities exist receive the care they need.

New York City Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network

The New York City Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network (NYC CPCRN) is a special interest project led by Chau Trinh-Shevrin, DrPH, through the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center.

The Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network (CPCRN) is a national network of academic, public health, and community partners who work together to reduce the burden of cancer, especially among those disproportionately affected. Its members conduct community-based participatory cancer research across its nine network centers, crossing academic affiliations and geographic boundaries. The CPCRN is a Thematic Research Network of the Prevention Research Centers, which are the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) flagship program for preventing and controlling chronic diseases.

The NYC CPCRN’s mission is to engage local communities to advance evidence-based solutions to prevent and reduce the burden of cancer in New York City. In the current CPCRN cycle, we are conducting two core research projects. The first is an implementation evaluation designed to assess factors that impact the reach, effectiveness, and adoption of clinical decision support and patient facing educational materials to improve lung cancer screening. The second is a formative research study to improve human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine uptake among high-risk communities. The NYC CPCRN also co-leads cross-center workgroups and participates in other collaborative network workgroups and activities.

This content is a product of a Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Center supported by Cooperative Agreement Number U48 DP006848 from the CDC. The findings and conclusions on this website are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position of the CDC.