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Applications are now being accepted for both COMMUNITY and FACULTY REASEARCHERS to join a work group to improve cancer outcomes.
PLEASE NOTE: applications are only being accepted for work in Walworth and with GLITC (groups in Milwaukee and Racine are now closed)
For reference, you may click on the PDF files below to review the full application before submitting
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Watch an interview with the initiative's co-leaders, Dr. Staci Young and David Frazer, to learn more about this opportunity
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Community Member Flyer
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Faculty Researcher Flyer
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The purpose of the Collaborative Work Groups initiative is to bring both community partners and academic researchers together to create equitable teams. These work group teams will design, build, test, implement, evaluate and disseminate innovative approaches to address breast and/or lung cancer disparities.
Participants will join one of seven workgroups hosted by community organizations and will:
Participants will join one of seven workgroups hosted by community organizations and will:
- Meet regularly and engage with team (approximately 4 hours per week)
- Meetings will be held both virtually and in-person, as community health conditions permit
- Explore topics in breast or lung cancer
- Design meaningful community solutions to improve health
- Receive compensation
Collaborative Work Groups
One of CCSN's efforts, Collaborative Work Groups bring a broad
spectrum of perspectives together to focus on understanding and address
breast and lung cancer in a new way.
spectrum of perspectives together to focus on understanding and address
breast and lung cancer in a new way.
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The causes of disparities in cancer outcomes have complex root causes and and often involve interactions between individual biology, behavioral risks, as well as the socio-cultural, physical, and political environments.
We believe that to effectively address cancer disparities, we need to look at the issue from many different perspectives including:
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These diverse collaborative work groups rarely occur naturally, and this collaboration isn't often intuitive. We are helping to bridge different perspectives, creating meaningful interaction, and growing partnerships through transdisciplinary collaboration.
In transdisciplinary collaboration, teams learn from each other, develop a broader and deeper understanding of a problem, and are better equipped to create effective solutions.
In transdisciplinary collaboration, teams learn from each other, develop a broader and deeper understanding of a problem, and are better equipped to create effective solutions.
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Collaborative Work Groups will be in urban and rural areas of the state, focused on specific topics associated with breast and lung cancer including:
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Collaborative Work Group Leadership
David Frazer, MPH
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Staci Young, PhD
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Tim Meister, MA
Program Manager Medical College of Wisconsin
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For more information on The Collaborative Work Groups Initiative, please contact Tim Meister, tmeister@mcw.edu