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Intercultural Cancer Council Regional Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved & Cancer
Address the challenges of alleviating cancer and health disparities with community and faith-based organizations embracing the opportunities and potential for change in our region.
September 22 – 24, 2010
UIC Forum
725 W Roosevelt Rd.
Chicago, IL 60608
Overview:
Join your colleagues in Chicago for the most important cancer and community event of the year. Now, more than ever, is the time for those interested in alleviating cancer and health disparities to come together and embrace the opportunities and potential for change facing our region.
The Intercultural Cancer Council (ICC) promotes policies, programs, partnerships, and research to eliminate the unequal burden of cancer among racial and ethnic minorities and medically underserved populations in the United States and its associated territories.
After more than 20 years, the ICC's Biennial Symposium series - Minorities, the Medically Underserved & Cancer - has traded its national meeting for more focused regional meetings. The Symposium will continue to provide the stage on which we shine a spotlight on the issues of disproportionate cancer incidence, morbidity, and mortality in minority and medically underserved populations. These regional meetings will allow us to learn first-hand about the unique strategies that are being initiated regionally, and to engage in a dialogue that explores issues and finds solutions for the many complex problems related to cancer.
Symposium Objectives:
To provide a venue to uncover and combine all our wisdom and release our collective energy
To increase the competencies and enrich the work experience of scientific investigators, community-based advocates, public health professionals, and others through skill building
To increase information about and general awareness of cancer and cancer health disparity issues and how they are affected by local and national factors
To provide private and public partners with community resources that will enhance their health disparity objectives, as well as current and future projects
Student poster abstracts are invited from research in fields relevant to cancer, health disparities, community-based participatory research, internships in scientific investigation, and other vulnerable population topics.
