Research Project 2: CalEITC and Colorectal Cancer

  • The Center is also evaluating the impact of increased income support through the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). The project will estimate the effect of the 2015 CalEITC expansion policy on colorectal risk factors. The examination of these effects in California is notable because the state has one of the most generous EITC policies for lower-income individuals and having a social security number is no longer required to receive benefits, opening eligibility up to non-US citizens with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN). 

Investigators

Luis G. Carvajal-Carmona, PhD
Associate Vice Chancellor, Office of Academic Diversity, UC Davis; Founding Director, Latinos United for Cancer Health Advancement and Center for Advancing Cancer Health Equity, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center; Co-director, Community Engagement Program, UC Davis Clinical and Transitional Science Center

Project Lead

Scarlett Lin Gomez, PhD
Co-Leader, Cancer Control Program, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Lisa Goldman Rosas, PhD
Associate Director, Community Engagement, Stanford Center for Population Health; Co-Director of Community-Engaged Research, Office of Cancer Health Equity, Stanford Cancer Institute; Faculty Director, Office of Community Engagement, Stanford School of Medicine

David Rehkopf, Sc.D., MPH
Director, Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences

Project Lead

Patricia Rodriguez Espinosa, PhD
Core Associate Leader, Stanford Alzheimer's Disease Research Center; Associate Director of Research, Stanford School of Medicine Office of Community Engagement

Michael Potter, MD
Director, San Francisco Bay Collaborative Research Network; Director, CTSI Research Infrastructure Network and Team Science Programs; Family physician and researcher, UCSF

 

Maxwell Rong, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford Department of Sociology