RESEARCH PROJECTS

Supporting & Conducting Research in Communities

 

Alzheimer's Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Program

Core: Stanford ADRC Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core

Funder: Stanford Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC)

Aim(s): The Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core assists in recruiting volunteers for the Stanford Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC).  Our recruitment emphasizes patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and Dementia with Lewy Bodies; patients with mild cognitive impairment; and healthy older controls without neurological disease or cognitive impairment. More


Black Ladies Advocating for Cancer Care (BLACC)

Funder: California Breast Cancer Research Program (CBCRP)  

Aim(s): Aim: Support Community based participatory research addressing Black Breast cancer disparities through a pilot test of the BLACC Peer Navigator Program More

Recruitment CLOSED


Clinical & Translational Science Award Program (CTSA)  

Core: Community Engagement More

Funder: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Aim(s): Goals of the CTSA Community Engagement Core support the goals of the Stanford CTSA by fostering bidirectional partnerships with community-based organizations, patients, and key stakeholders to facilitate translational science that promotes community health. More

 

 


Upstream Research Center

Core: Community Core, co-led by UC Davis, UC San Francisco, and Stanford

Funder: National Cancer Institute

Aim(s): Build, evaluate, develop, and implement a collaborative community of residents in persistent poverty areas, policymakers, trainees, cancer and social science researchers, and data scientists that co-create programs to address the fundamental impacts of living in a persistant poverty area. More


Wipe-out Melanoma, CA

Core: Stanford Cancer Institute (SCI) | Office of Cancer Health Equity

Funder: Donor

Aim(s): Development of patient data registry and community-based secondary prevention strategies to reach low income Latino and non-Hispanic Whites for the prevention of melanoma. More