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Upcoming Events


Health Equity Research Education Program

Grant Writing Retreat

Wednesday to Friday,
February 26-28, 2025

Birmingham, Alabama


 

Annual Presidents’ Video Conference

March 18, 2025




Program Steering Committee Meeting

April 23, 2025

Hosted Virtually by University of Alabama at Birmingham




Internal Advisory Committee Meeting

February 17, 2025


Cancer Research Symposium

July 22-23, 2025

Hosted by Morehouse School of Medicine at Crowne Plaza Peachtree City, GA



Training Opportunities



2025-PRSTP - Flyer with QR Code

2025-PRSTP – Program Flyer

Latest in news


 
2025 MSM-TU-UAB Full-Pilot Application RFA-Final 

UAB, 2 other schools receive coll ective $18 million grant

Cancer doesn’t care about equality, so this program encourages diverse scholars to care more about cancer

Partnering Institutions

Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM)
Tuskegee University (TU)
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)


Principal Investigators

MSM: 
Brian Rivers, PhD  -Contact-PI
James Lillard, PhD

TU:
Timothy Turner, PhD -Contact-PI
Vivian Carter, PhD
Windy Dean-Colomb, MD

UAB:
Upender Manne, PhD -Contact-PI
Isabel Scarinci, PhD


Program Managers

 MSM: Jennifer Creighton
     TU: Chiquita Lee
  UAB: Dennis Otali

 

Upcoming Events


Health Equity Research Education Program

Grant Writing Retreat

Wednesday to Friday,
February 26-28, 2025

Birmingham, Alabama


 

Annual Presidents’ Video Conference

March 18, 2025




Program Steering Committee Meeting

April 23, 2025

Hosted Virtually by University of Alabama at Birmingham




Internal Advisory Committee Meeting

February 17, 2025


Cancer Research Symposium

July 22-23, 2025

Hosted by Morehouse School of Medicine at Crowne Plaza Peachtree City, GA



Training Opportunities



2025-PRSTP - Flyer with QR Code

2025-PRSTP – Program Flyer

Latest in news


 
2025 MSM-TU-UAB Full-Pilot Application RFA-Final 

UAB, 2 other schools receive coll ective $18 million grant

Cancer doesn’t care about equality, so this program encourages diverse scholars to care more about cancer

Partnering Institutions

Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM)
Tuskegee University (TU)
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)


Principal Investigators

MSM: 
Brian Rivers, PhD  -Contact-PI
James Lillard, PhD

TU:
Timothy Turner, PhD -Contact-PI
Vivian Carter, PhD
Windy Dean-Colomb, MD

UAB:
Upender Manne, PhD -Contact-PI
Isabel Scarinci, PhD


Program Managers

 MSM: Jennifer Creighton
     TU: Chiquita Lee
  UAB: Dennis Otali

 

Steering Committee

Jeroan J. Allison
, MD, EPI 
(CHAIR)

EXPERTISE: Disparities in Health care Outcomes 

Sandra Million Underwood, RN, PhD
EXPERTISE: Nursing; Cancer Education & Research

Gerald Sonnenfeld
, PhD

EXPERTISE: Basic Science; Microbiology & Immunology
 
John Stone, MD, PhD
EXPERTISE: Cancer Biomarker Development

Jorge A. Marrero, MD, MS
EXPERTISE: 
Advanced Liver Disease and Transplant Hepatology

Sandra L. San Miguel-MajorsDrPH, MS
Health Science Administrator, Innovative Programs Branch
Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities
  
H. Nelson Aguila
D.V.M.
National Cancer Institute

EXPERTISE: Reducing Cancer Health Disparities
 



Advisory Committee

Morehouse School of Medicine

Dr. John H. Stewart, IV, MD, MBA, FACS
Sheila McClure, PhD


Tuskegee University

Vijaya K. Rangari, PhD
Chastity Bradford, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Selvarangan Ponnazhagan, PhD
Erica Stringer-Reasor, MD

 

The Partnership between Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), Tuskegee University (TU), and the O' Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is supported by the NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI). The Partnership, located in the heart of the Southeast, a region with a large, historically underserved African American population, has goals of attaining excellence in research focused on the basis of cancer health disparities and on reducing the cancer burden. The three institutions, which are assisting underserved communities, possess unique strengths that supplement each other. The primary objectives are to maintain progress in establishing productive cancer research programs at MSM and TU, to persist in developing a pipeline of prospective minority investigators at TU and further expand cancer disparity research at O' Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB.

The Partnership has three Cores (Administrative, Planning & Evaluation, and Developmental). Within the Developmental Core, there are four Programs (Cancer Research, Training, Outreach and Education) and two Shared Resources (Bioethics and Biostatistics). With the Research Programs, the Partnership will continue: 1) to tap the pool of talented students and faculty at MSM and TU through the Cancer Training Program, linking them to established investigators and to the research infrastructure at the O' Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center; 2) to promote a Cancer Research Program, which provides funding for research projects; 3) to encourage graduate and undergraduate students across various scientific disciplines to pursue careers in the biosciences through our Cancer Education Program and to provide a flow of students into our Cancer Training and Cancer Research Programs; and 4) to promote cancer awareness and healthy lifestyles among our underserved populations and increase minority participation in therapeutic clinical trials through our established Cancer Outreach Program. The Bioethics Shared Resource promotes and ensures adherence to bioethical principles and addresses ethical considerations in relationships among our institutions and between institutions and communities. The Biostatistics Shared Resource maintains statistical support for all programs. The Partnership will continue to demonstrate its extensive capability to conduct research on cancer health disparities.

The overall progress report of the partnership is shown below.

2023 PACHE Poster MSM-TU-UAB 

Overall Impact 2021 

Steering Committee

Jeroan J. Allison
, MD, EPI 
(CHAIR)

EXPERTISE: Disparities in Health care Outcomes 

Sandra Million Underwood, RN, PhD
EXPERTISE: Nursing; Cancer Education & Research

Gerald Sonnenfeld
, PhD

EXPERTISE: Basic Science; Microbiology & Immunology
 
John Stone, MD, PhD
EXPERTISE: Cancer Biomarker Development

Jorge A. Marrero, MD, MS
EXPERTISE: 
Advanced Liver Disease and Transplant Hepatology

Sandra L. San Miguel-MajorsDrPH, MS
Health Science Administrator, Innovative Programs Branch
Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities
  
H. Nelson Aguila
D.V.M.
National Cancer Institute

EXPERTISE: Reducing Cancer Health Disparities
 



Advisory Committee

Morehouse School of Medicine

Dr. John H. Stewart, IV, MD, MBA, FACS
Sheila McClure, PhD


Tuskegee University

Vijaya K. Rangari, PhD
Chastity Bradford, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Selvarangan Ponnazhagan, PhD
Erica Stringer-Reasor, MD