UCSF Vietnamese community health promotion project co-sponsors academy to prevent cancer in Asian Americans

The UCSF Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project has announced the first annual Asian American Cancer Control Academy scheduled on April 25 and 26, 2001 at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center.

Those invited to attend the conference include community physicians, nurses, health educators and other health professionals in private practice, community clinics, and managed health care systems as well as volunteers, staff from cancer control voluntary agencies, researchers, and public health students at all levels. Program topics include:

Do traditional Vietnamese and Chinese health beliefs act as barriers to cancer screening and health care?
An overview of tobacco control interventions for Vietnamese
Hepatitis B and liver cancer among Asian Americans
Lung cancer among Chinese
Successful cancer control strategies in the Chinese community
A panel discussion on Asian American cancer survivors and support
Tailoring health education materials for Vietnamese
Developing community/university partnerships
A clinician's tool kit for providers of health care to the Vietnamese and Chinese populations

Other objectives of the two-day academy are to further develop insights into the cultural background and historical context that may affect Vietnamese-American and Chinese-American communities and their readiness for cancer control activities.

The UCSF Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project is a member of the Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research and Training (AANCART) which is sponsoring the two-day cancer control academy. AANCART is the first Asian American Special Population Network funded by the National Cancer Institute for a 5-year project centered in Columbus, Ohio. The center coordinates sites in Boston, New York, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. All sites have a goal of building a robust and sustainable infrastructure to increase cancer awareness, research and training among Asian Americans. AANCART also promotes greater accrual of Asian Americans in clinical and prevention trials, increasing training opportunities and developing new investigators and grant funding for Asian Americans.

Featured speakers at the upcoming academy include Stephen J. McPhee, MD, UCSF professor of medicine and AANCART regional principal investigator; Moon S.Chen Jr., PhD, MPH, AANCART principal investigator; Frank E. Jackson, program director of the National Cancer Institute's Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities; Gary L. Euler, DrPH, MPH, epidemiologist, chief of hepatitis activity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Edward Chow, MD, executive director of the Chinese Community Health Care Association.

Registration cost for the academy is $60. For information or registration, call Hy Lam (415) 476-0557 or visit the Academy website at http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~hlam/academy/ National AANCARTwebsite http://www.sph.ohio-state.edu/aancart/. On site registration will be available at a cost of $75 as long as space permits.

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Note: For media interested in covering the event, contact Twink Stern in the UCSF News Services Office, (415) 476-1045.

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