Community Outreach
Center for Community-Based Research
The Center for Community-Based Research (CCBR) at Dana-Farber conducts research aimed at cancer prevention and control, with a particular emphasis on the development and evaluation of effective interventions designed to modify behaviors, policies and practices to reduce cancer risk and to provide increased access to and comprehension of cancer risk information. This research program has a special focus on reducing racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in cancer risk.
These interventions ideally are evaluated in randomized, controlled studies, with the intent that the tested models will ultimately be applied broadly through community and health organizations nationally. These public health approaches that target organizations or communities are an important complement to the clinical and basic research also being conducted at Dana-Farber.
To test the effectiveness of community-based educational and policy interventions within defined populations, solid partnerships with community organizations are necessary. Community organizations act as collaborators in our research, providing both study populations, and shaping the interventions.
Another priority of CCBR is to place and mentor students from a range of academic levels and including many from racial and ethnic minorities.
