Aim 1. Promote and sustain community-academic partnerships through bidirectional knowledge sharing to ensure that intervention strategies and scientific discovery in cancer health disparities and related risk and protected factors are relevant to community needs and translated into community knowledge and practice.
Aim 2. Facilitate greater community involvement in setting research priorities and creating more opportunities for academic-practitioner-community research partnerships.
Aim 3. Build capacity (knowledge and skills) among research investigators, community members, health systems, and potential research participants to conduct innovative and transformative research projects to address community health needs, particularly in cancer research.
Aim 4. Provide support for investigators for developing appropriate strategies to facilitate dissemination of research findings of the center to the scientific and community organizations, and lay communities.