Zoom Series: Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalitions Advancing Health Equity: Assessing Representation in Your Coalition

May 25, 2021

The Comprehensive Cancer Control National Partnership (CCCNP) launched a Health Equity initiative designed to assist CCC coalitions and programs in addressing health inequities in cancer. The initiative focuses on:

  • How a coalition can advance health equity through CCC plan update processes and CCC plan implementation and
  • How a CCC coalition can look at its operations through a social justice and equity lens

In her video presentation on May 25, 2021, Dr. Miles-Richardson discusses assessing representation in your coalition.

Speaker:

Stephanie Miles-Richardson, D.V.M., Ph.D., Professor in Community Health & Preventive Medicine, Associate Dean of Graduate Education in Public Health, Director of the Master of Public Health Program, Morehouse School of Medicine

View Assessing Representation in Your Coalition

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