Research

Participants

Community Participants
IRB Committees and Boards
Community Advisory Committee
Hopi Nation (Lori Martin & Staff)
Navajo Nation (Sally Joe & Staff)

NAU: 
Charlotte Goodluck
R. Cruz Begay

AZCC/UA: 
Robin Harris,
Sylvia Brown,
Kathryn Coe,        
Tomas Nuno

Consultant:
Lydia Hubbard-Pourier

Partners:

• Navajo BCCP (Window Rock)
• Hopi BCCP (Kykotsmovi)
• Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff)
• Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona (Tucson)

Research Goals

• Determine the effectiveness of the Hopi and Navajo BCCPs to reach eligible women.
• Determine barriers and incentives for Hopi and Navajo women to receive timely cancer screening.

The Women's Health Programs of the Hopi Tribe and Navajo Nation have been conducting breast and cervical cancer screening programs (BCCP) sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for several years. Both Programs have
identified a need NACRP is collaborating with both programs to improve
program evaluation and surveillance of cancer screening,to evaluate the results of these programs and to define goals for further collaborative research.

In addition, we have partnered with the Hopi tribe to design programs to identify current knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors among Hopi women about breast & cervical cancer screening. As an extension of pilot work done on the Navajo Nation by NACRP students, we are currently working with the NNDOH to identify current issues among women not seeking cancer screening.