Masonic Cancer Center Catchment Community Pilot Awards

The objective of the MCC’s Catchment Community Pilot grants is to provide pilot funding to support community-engaged research projects. Projects must be conducted within a partnership between community-based organizations and academic researchers working to address one of the Cancer Center’s catchment priorities.

Grantees

2023

SAVETHEBOTTOMS!!! @ PRIDE: Implementation of Two Novel Community-based Anal Cancer Screening Strategies
Elliot Arsoniadis, MD, PhD, Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery, Medical School
Lauren Fontana, DO, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Medical School
Anjum Kaka, MD, Minneapolis VA Health Care System Research Services, US Department of Veterans Affairs
Rebekah Pratt, PhD, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Medical School
Anne-Marie Leuck, MD, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Medical School

Developing and pilot testing an intervention to reduce household shisha smoke exposure within Somali homes
April Wilhelm, MD, MPH, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Medical School
Irina Stepanov, PhD, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health

2022
Community Voices for Health: Using participatory research methods to develop interventions that promote cancer prevention and screening among Somali community members in Minnesota
Rebekah Pratt, PhD, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Medical School

Developing Cancer Prevention Capacity through Community Health Workers
Ivan Wu, PhD, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health
Abdifatah Ali, PhD, Carlson School of Management
2021
Cooked Meat and Prostate Cancer Risk
Robert Turesky, PhD, Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy
 
Eliciting sun behavior beliefs to inform messaging and intervention development for skin cancer prevention in rural Minnesota
Rachel Vogel, PhD, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, Medical School
Marco Yzer, PhD, Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication, College of Liberal Arts
Rebekah Nagler, PhD, Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication, College of Liberal Arts
DeAnn Lazovich, PhD, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health
Carrie Henning-Smith, PhD, Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health
Rehana Ahmed-Saucedo, MD, PhD, Department of Dermatology, Medical School