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The National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute has awarded the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the UAB Minority Health & Health Equity Research Center $9.6 million over five years t
The Center for Health Outcomes and Population Equity at Huntsman Cancer Institute and the University of Utah, in partnership with the Montana State University Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity, received a grant for Cancer Control in Persistent Poverty Areas from the National Cancer Institute.
The Biden Administration has announced $50 million in funding- spread over five years - for five university centers to study the effects of persistent poverty on cancer.
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On June 26, The Biden Administration released the Persistent Poverty Initiative, an initiative coordinated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) that awards $50 million to reduce inequities in the social determinants of health related to cancer and cancer prevention. The goal of the initiative is to alleviate the cumulative effects of persistent poverty on cancer outcomes in parts of the country where, for the past 30 years, 20% or more of the population has lived below the federal poverty line. This will be accomplished by building research capacity, fostering cancer prevention research and ...