Research to Reality Cyber-Seminar: How to Measure Health Disparities ► NCI Cancer Bulletin for June 26, 2012 - National Cancer Institute

NCI Cancer Bulletin for June 26, 2012 - National Cancer Institute

Research to Reality Cyber-Seminar: How to Measure Health Disparities

The July 10 NCI Research to Reality (R2R) cyber-seminar will explore efforts and tools to help researchers and practitioners monitor and evaluate community health disparities. The seminar will highlight the Health Disparities Calculator (HD*Calc), free statistical software from NCI designed to evaluate and monitor health disparities.

Drs. Nancy Breen and Eva Wong

Dr. Nancy Breen of NCI’s Health Services and Economics Branch and her colleagues will provide an overview and demonstration of the tool. Dr. Eva Wong of the Seattle and King County (WA) Department of Public Health will discuss how Seattle/King staff have used the tool to evaluate health disparities in their county and how it has helped them improve programs designed to address these disparities.
For more information and to register for this event, visit the R2R website, where you can watch presentations and join discussions. All R2R cyber-seminars are archived on the website a week after the presentation.
For more information on the cyber-seminar series, please e-mail ResearchtoReality@mail.nih.gov.