CBHRS - Cancer education

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Cancer Education in Northwest Arctic

Summary

In a community-based participatory action research project, Jen Schmidt and Katie Cueva worked in collaboration with community partners, high school teachers, youth, health professionals, and tribal organizations to develop and pilot cancer education for high school students in Northwest Alaska.

This work was supported by funding through the American Indian Alaska Native Clinical and Translational Research Program (AI/AN CTRP), award 5U54GM115371-04 from the National Institute of Health (NIH).

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ISER Researcher’s Paper Honored at 2013 Annual Meeting of American Association for Cancer Education

A paper co-written by Katie Cueva, a research professional at ISER, has been awarded the R. Davilene Carter Prize for Best Paper submitted at the 2013 American Association for Cancer Education Annual Meeting. The paper, "Evaluating Arts-Based Cancer Education Using an Internet Survey among Alaska Community Health Workers," was published in the November 2013 issue of Journal of Cancer Education.