About CPCRN
The Cancer Prevention and Control Research
Network (CPCRN) provides an infrastructure for applying relevant
research to local cancer prevention and control needs. It is a
subgroup of the CDC's
Prevention Research Centers (PRCs), which are the CDC's flagship
program for preventing and controlling chronic diseases.
By drawing on the established PRC guidelines and strong community
ties, the CPCRN conducts community-based, participatory cancer
research across its eight network centers, regardless of academic
affiliations and geographic boundaries.
Mission of CPCRN
To accelerate the adoption of evidence-based cancer prevention
and control in communities.
Vision of CPCRN
The Network will be engaged in research and practice activities
that span the translation continuum from discovery to the
dissemination and adoption of effective interventions. Our
research activities will inform evidence reviews, especially the
cancer-related sections of the Guide to Community Preventive
Services. However, we will go beyond advancing the
science of cancer prevention and control, we will also influence
public health and primary care practice. In particular,
we will be actively engaged in enhancing large-scale efforts to
reach underserved populations and reduce their burden of cancer.
To read about the vision of the CPCRN in more detail,
download
Elements of a Vision for CPCRN in PDF format (62 KB).
CPCRN Members
Currently the CPCRN is comprised of are eight funded
research institutions and one funded coordinating center:
Emory University Rollins School of Public
Health Atlanta, Georgia
Emory Prevention Research Center
This center focuses on evidence-based public health training,
nutrition, physical activity, and tobacco use, concentrating on
African American, white, and rural populations.
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts together with
Boston
University of Public Health Boston, Massachusetts
Harvard Prevention Research Center
Boston University Prevention Research Center
MCPCRN (Massachusetts Cancer Prevention Community Research
Network)
This center focuses on cancer screening, tobacco use,
obesity, nutrition, and physical activity with low-income
populations and multiethnic employees at worksites and community
health centers.
Morehouse
School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia
Morehouse Prevention Research Center
This center focuses on working with African American and
other minority populations at worksites, unions, and health
centers
Saint Louis University
Saint Louis, Missouri
SLU Prevention Research Center
BEACON (Building
Evidence-Based Action into Community Outreach Networks)
This center focuses primarily on cancer communication with
African Americans.
University of
California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
UCLA Prevention Research Center
CORICA (Community Research in Cancer)
This center focuses on cancer screening, nutrition, physical
activity, tobacco use, and obesity among Latinos and urban
minorities.
University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill* Chapel Hill, North Carolina
UNC Prevention Research Center
4CNC (Comprehensive Cancer Control Collaborative of North
Carolina)
CPCRN Coordinating Center
This center focuses on colorectal cancer screening and
tobacco-related cancers with African Americans, low-income
whites, and Latinos.
University of
Texas Health Science Center Houston, Texas
UT Prevention Research
Center
LINCC (Latinos
in a Network for Cancer Control)
This center focuses on informed decision making, replication
and dissemination of cancer research, and colorectal cancer
among Latino and rural populations.
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
UW Prevention
Research Center
Alliance for Reducing Cancer, Northwest
This center focuses on cancer screening and workplace health
among low-income and minority populations.
* UNC-Chapel Hill is home both to a CPCRN network
site and the network's coordinating center.
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