What is the CDRC?
The CDRC consists of 10 Black churches and their pastors, culturally sensitive community and faculty researchers, cancer survivors, undergraduate students in a Health Disparities and Health Promotion Research Internship taught by Dr. Carolyn Tucker, and a Health Disparities and Health Promotion Research Team. The group works together to conduct community-based participatory research that will lead to interventions and large grants, with the aim of promoting cancer prevention, treatment and survivorship.
The CDRC targets Black cancer survivors and people at risk for cancer who live in low-income communities in or near East Gainesville, or in rural low-income communities in Alachua County. The CDRC’s goal is to reduce cancer incidence, cancer deaths and cancer disparities that have a disproportionately negative impact on Black and other minority groups. The CDRC is supported and funded by the NCI-designated UF Health Cancer Institute.
The CDRC is a group of 10 Black churches, an interdisciplinary team of culturally sensitive researchers, and a health disparities research support staff.
