CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - A new medical center in Chicago will focus on eliminating health inequities when it comes to cancer.
The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center’s new effort is called the Center to Eliminate Cancer Inequity or CinEQUITY.
The goal of the center is to create solutions to eliminate disparities in cancer prevention care by researching the biological, social and structural factors that adversely affect marginalized people in the Chicagoland area.
Through CinEQUITY, researchers will work with community leaders, advocates, survivors and policy makers to find the best ways to help those in need.
“The mission of CinEQUITY is to codesign solutions with our community that shatter disparities in cancer prevention and care,” said Jasmin Tiro, PhD, MPH, Professor of Public Health Sciences, and the Director of the new Center. “Our guiding vision is of a future where every individual, regardless of background or circumstance, has equitable outcomes when preventing, treating and surviving cancer.”
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