In September, several members of our U54 team attended the 2023 PACHE meeting at the National Cancer Institute in Rockville, MD. Dr. Carolyn Fang was invited to give an oral presentation on the success of our REC and SCRI Program, “Building on a Solid Foundation: Success Stories Cancer Education and Training.” Our PIs, Dr. Grace Ma & Joel Erblich presented a programmatic overview of the SPEECH Partnership.

Three scienctific posters were presented by the U54 team as well:

• Lin Zhu, PhD – “Evaluating a Bidirectional Academic Community Partnership with Multiple Racial/Ethnic Communities for Cancer Prevention Initiatives and Cancer Health Disparities Research”
• Emily Kaminsky, MS – “Educating the Next Generation of Cancer Researchers: Evaluation of A Cancer Research Partnership Training Program”
• Thoin Begum, PhD – “An effective intervention toolkit to promote medication adherence among Asian Americans living with chronic hepatitis B”