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Goals and Objectives

The Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University's goal is to generate knowledge through innovative research and learning from the community that will transform cancer prevention and care and reduce the cancer burden in the state of Georgia and beyond.

Decreasing Georgia's Cancer Burden

The program's overarching, long-term goals are to decrease cancer risk, incidence, morbidity and mortality, while enhancing the quality of life for patients with cancer and survivors.

Program Objectives

The Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program has four scientific themes:

  1. Cancer Epidemiology - to achieve high quality surveillance of the cancer burden and identify risk factors such as biological, behavioral, social and policy factors, and environmental exposures, to inform targeted interventions and strategies to reduce cancer risk in Georgia.
  2. Interventions - focus on HPV vaccination uptake, individual behavioral interventions to reduce tobacco use and to prevent weight gain, and policy and systems-level changes with the ultimate goal of broad-scale implementation of effective strategies.
  3. Cancer Survivorship and Symptom Management - focus on treatment-related early effects, including patient-reported outcomes, biobehavioral changes in the brain, childhood and adolescent cancer survivors transition to primary care, and late effects such as cardiovascular disease, which substantially affect the quality-of-life of cancer patients and survivors.
  4. Quality of Cancer Care - to conduct population-based research that describes, interprets, and predicts the impact of health care interventions and other factors on adherence to care, quality of cancer care, inequities in care, and outcomes.

Career Development and Community Engagement

Our program's diverse membership furnishes a rich research training environment for the next generation of cancer researchers. Investigators in the program engage in ongoing interactions with Winship's Office of Community Outreach and Engagement to inform research on catchment area priorities and actively engage in promoting biomedical scientific careers for under-represented groups.