Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health Receives $297,000 National Institute of Heath Grant to Support Cervical Cancer Education Program
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Georgia Southern University’s Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health has been awarded a $297,185 federal grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to refine and test a cervical cancer education program in the Hispanic/Latino community.
The two-year project, which is funded by the NIH Office of the Director, is titled, “Salud es Vida (Health is Life): Reducing Access Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening among Underserved Hispanic Women.” John Luque, Ph.D., assistant professor of community health, is the principal investigator of the new grant.
As a part of the grant, Georgia Southern researchers are partnering with Georgia Health Sciences University’s Gynecological Cancer Prevention Center and Department of Medical Illustration. In a previous NIH pilot grant, Luque’s team developed a Spanish language cervical cancer screening toolkit that helps community health workers to encourage women to receive Pap tests and also provides information about the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, which prevents cervical cancer. This new grant will test the efficacy of this intervention approach.
Luque says the study may help community health programs and clinics realize the value of community health workers as they plan cervical cancer outreach programs for Hispanic women.