All Posts: health equity

• Ralph Lauren Center Marks Its First Year at Georgetown

  Nearly one year after the opening of the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention, Ralph Lauren leaders toured the center and received an update on its accomplishments from center leaders and staff.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: cancer prevention, cancer screening, community outreach, health disparities, health equity, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention

• Georgetown Lombardi Faculty Members Aim To Improve Lung Cancer Screening and Smoking Cessation Rates by Focusing on Equity in Care

  Kathryn Taylor, PhD, professor of oncology, believes she can have no greater impact on reducing the burden of cancer than by focusing on the harms of tobacco use. The work she co-leads with Randi Williams, PhD, assistant professor of oncology, as part of the Lung Screening, Tobacco, and Health (LSTH) research lab at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center is especially impactful on underserved communities, who are often the target of tobacco product marketing.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: cancer, cancer screening, early detection, health disparities, health equity, lung cancer, lung cancer screening, racial disparities, smoking cessation, tobacco control, underserved populations

• Survivorship Research Initiative Seminar Series: “Achieving Health Equity in Cancer and Palliative Care”

  Join this health equity talk via Zoom on Friday, January 12 at 10 a.m.

  Category: DEI News Tag: health equity

• Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention — Part of Washington’s Fabric

  Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s newly dedicated Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention, with its quadrupling of health-focused staff, brings renewed hope that those who have been historically underserved in the Washington, DC, area will now have access to more cancer-related services and the potential of turning the tide on the high rate of cancer in the city.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: cancer prevention, health disparities, health equity, minority health, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention, underserved populations

• Lombardi at 50: Community Outreach to Reduce Health Disparities

  (March 5, 2020) — When Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities Research was created in 2008, its associate director, Lucile Adams-Campbell, PhD — the nation’s first black female epidemiologist — had a clear vision of need about the work ahead within the community. “Georgetown can come to everyone but […]

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: 50th Anniversary, community outreach, health disparities, health equity, minority health, Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities Research