COMMUNITY & CANCER SCIENCE NETWORK
  • Home
    • About Us
    • Developmental Evaluation
    • Leadership
    • Connect with us
  • Research & Community Scholars
  • Mammographic Quality
  • Collaborative Work Groups
  • Understanding Prostate Cancer Disparities
  • Blog
  • Publications

Collaborative
​
​Work Groups

Click here to apply!
​

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
cwg_member_application_form_community.pdf
File Size: 214 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

cwg_member_application_form_faculty.pdf
File Size: 223 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Picture

Watch an interview with the initiative's co-leaders, Dr. Staci Young and David Frazer, to learn more about this opportunity

Community Member Flyer
Faculty Researcher Flyer
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:


  • 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​
Click here to apply!

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.
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:
  • survivors,
  • physicians,
  • health care providers,
  • community based organizations, 
  • researchers - from population science to biology. 
Picture
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.
Collaborative Work Groups will be  in urban and rural areas of the state, focused on specific topics associated with breast and lung cancer including:
  • environment
  • health care access and quality
  • stress
  • commercial tobacco use
Picture

 ​Collaborative Work Group Leadership

Picture

David Frazer,  MPH
Community Leader

Director
​Center for Urban Population Health 
​
Picture

Staci Young, PhD
​Academic Leader

Professor,
Family & Community Medicine,
Acting Senior Associate Dean,
Community Engagement 
Medical College of Wisconsin
Picture
Tim Meister, MA
Program Manager
Medical College of Wisconsin
For more information on The Collaborative Work Groups Initiative, please contact Tim Meister, tmeister@mcw.edu
Connect with us 
Photo used under Creative Commons from Joe K Gage
  • Home
    • About Us
    • Developmental Evaluation
    • Leadership
    • Connect with us
  • Research & Community Scholars
  • Mammographic Quality
  • Collaborative Work Groups
  • Understanding Prostate Cancer Disparities
  • Blog
  • Publications