About the Howard Hopkins Partnership
Disparities in cancer incidence, morbidity, and mortality persist throughout the United States (US) both between Caucasians and underserved racial and ethnic minority populations, and between socio-economically privileged and disadvantaged. In Maryland and the District of Columbia, cancer has emerged as one of the leading health threats to African-Americans.
To better address the urgent needs of African-Americans threatened by cancer in this region, the Howard University Cancer Center (HUCC) and the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center (SKCCC) at Johns Hopkins formed a Partnership, first with the support of an administrative supplement to the SKCCC National Cancer Institute (NCI) Support Grant (5P30 CA006973), awarded in September of 1999, and then with funding from an NCI Comprehensive Minority Institution/Cancer Center Partnership Grant (U54 CA91049), beginning in July of 2001.
The Partnership received a 5-year renewal of the NCI Comprehensive Minority Institution/Cancer Center Partnership Grant for the period September 2006 through August 2011. With the new level of funding, the Howard-Hopkins Partnership will move forward with focused but ambitious plans in the areas of cancer research, cancer training, career development, and cancer education, and cancer outreach, to jointly develop stronger programs for eliminating cancer disparities in the Maryland/District of Columbia region, and eventually, throughout the US.
Current objectives include:
--Build and enhance the cancer research programs at Howard University with the goal of obtaining peer-reviewed independent funding in breast, prostate, lung and GI cancers at Howard and in health disparities at both institutions.
--Increase the accrual of African-Americans in prevention and therapeutic studies at both institutions through a joint community-based practice network strategy with the goal of elimination of disparities in clinical trial participation.
--Build the cancer research capabilities at Howard University through joint recruitment as well as education and training of faculty in critical areas such as clinical investigation and biostatistics. At Hopkins, an area of focus will be joint recruitment as well as education and training of faculty in critical disciplines such as clinical health disparities and community outreach.
--Assist Howard University in the development of a clinical research program through participation in collaborative grants, faculty recruitment, and training programs with the goal of creating an independent program.
--Provide research training opportunities at Johns Hopkins for Howard residents and fellows, continue to offer a graduate course in oncology at Howard with planning and participation of faculty from both institutions, and to develop a joint Cancer Health Disparities Training Program.
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