Research on Women and Minorities
Forty-four percent (19 of 43) of the grants and initiatives that the CBCRP awarded in 2008 studied either women or tissues from women, while the remaining 58 percent were laboratory studies that did not directly involve women or tissues from women.
Of the 19 grants and initiatives that involved women or tissues from women, 79 percent (15) collected new information from and about women.
Out of the 15 studies that included women:
- Eighty-seven percent, (13) grants include minority women in the study.
- Forty-seven percent, (7) are focused on minority women.
- Sixty percent, (9) are focused on underserved women.
A total of nine grants were funded with a primary emphasis on minority and/or underserved women:
Adapting a Breast Cancer Education
Program for South Asians
Beth Glenn, Ph.D., University of
California, Los Angeles
Zul Surani, B.S., South Asian Cancer
Foundation, Mission Hills
Breast Cancer Clinical Trials Education
Program
Georgia Sadler, Ph.D. M.B.A., University
of California, San Diego
Natasha Riley, M.A., Vista Community
Clinic
Vanessa Malcarne, San Diego State
University
An Ecological Study of Quality of
Life in Low-Income Women
Yoshiko Umezawa, M.H.S., University
of California, Los Angeles
Increasing Mammography Screening
in Latinas with Diabetes
Stergios Roussos, Ph.D., M.P.H.,
San Diego State University Research
Foundation
Christine Noguera, M.S., Golden
Valley Health Center
Latina Breast Cancer Survivors...Our
Experience
Brian Montano, M.P.H., University
of California, Los Angeles
Diana Tisnado , M.P.A., Ph.D., University
of California, Los Angeles
Mindful Movement Program for
Breast Cancer Survivors
Rebecca Crane-Okada, Ph.D., RN,
AOCN, Beckman Research Institute
Holly Kiger, R.N., M.N., WISE &
Healthy Aging
Pesticide and Gene Interactions in
Latina Farm Workers
Paul Mills, Ph.D., M.P.H.
University of California, San Francisco
Quality of Mammography Facilities
Serving Vulnerable Women
Lauren Goldman, M.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Reproductive Concerns and Depression
among Younger Survivors
Jessica Gorman, M.P.H.
University of California, San Diego
Understanding Racial and Ethnic
Differences in Stage-Specific Breast
Cancer Survival: a Pilot Study
Katherine Henderson, Ph.D., Beckman
Research Institute, City of
Hope
Anna Wu, Ph.D., University of
Southern California
Kristine Monroe, Ph.D., University of
Southern California
Marilyn Kwan, Ph.D., Kaiser Foundation
Research Institute
Esther John, Ph.D., Northern California
Cancer Center
Leslie Bernstein, Ph.D., Beckman
Research Institute, City of Hope
