Department of
Cancer Prevention and Control

Population Science

The Department of Cancer Prevention and Control’s (CPC) community-responsive approach includes translational, implementation, and population-based research, faculty, and programs that provide improved understanding and optimal care for the unique combination of geographic, social, economic, and genetic factors contributing to the state and region’s cancer burden.

CPC partners with a wide array of stakeholders to explore research in the following areas:

  • Cancer Etiology and Risks, including cancer epidemiology (special population, geographic variance, and cancer trends) and epigenetics/genetics.
  • Community engagement and outreach, including primary and secondary cancer prevention, health equity, and medical anthropology
  • Rural health
  • Cancer health communications, outcomes, and survivorship, including a cancer communications laboratory, health literacy, better use of electronic health records, mobile cancer screening, and the functional assessment, delivery systems, and biologic mechanisms of care for those who have completed active treatment
  • Implementation science promoting the adoption and integration of evidence-based practices, interventions, and policies to improve the impact of cancer control on population health

CPC’s dedicated, industrious faculty are working across the cancer continuum to address cancer inequities unique to our population. To find out more, visit the link for each.