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Overview: Current Partnerships & Projects

Overview: Current Partnerships & Projects. Latino Research and Policy Center (LRPC) University of Colorado Denver Fall 2013. LRPC’s Areas of Focus. Eliminating health disparities affecting Latinos by addressing social & behavioral determinants Cancer Heart disease Diabetes

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Overview: Current Partnerships & Projects

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  1. Overview: Current Partnerships& Projects Latino Research and Policy Center (LRPC) University of Colorado Denver Fall 2013

  2. LRPC’s Areas of Focus • Eliminating health disparities affecting Latinos by addressing social & behavioral determinants • Cancer • Heart disease • Diabetes • Increasing the number of Latinos through the pipeline to health careers • Public health • Medicine • Mental health

  3. LRPC’s Partnerships • Hispanic Access Foundation (HAF) • Evaluation of “JuntosPodemos Contra el Cancer” • Children’s Outcome Research Program • PCORI grant on Latina’s HPV vaccine initiation and completion disparities (PI: Demsey, A). • Colorado School of Public Health • Social media for sexual and reproductive rights, access, and justice grant. • Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI) • Latino hypertension disparities workgroup.

  4. LRPC’s Proposals • Latina HPV vaccine and cervical cancer disparities • Five research proposals to CDC, ACS, HHS, NIH. • Hispanic Access Foundation, Denver Health & Hospital Authority, Salud Family Health Centers • Prevention and control of chronic diseases among Spanish-speaking Latinos • One research proposal to the NIMHD • Hispanic Access Foundation • Training of graduate students in health careers to address breast cancer disparities among Latinas • One research proposal to the Susan G. Komen • Denver Health & Hospital Authority

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