Latino Research and Policy Center (LRPC) University of Colorado Denver Fall 2013

 Eliminating health disparities affecting Latinos by addressing social & behavioral determinants ◦ Cancer ◦ Heart disease ◦ Diabetes  Increasing the number of Latinos through the pipeline to health careers ◦ Public health ◦ Medicine ◦ Mental health

 Hispanic Access Foundation (HAF) ◦ Evaluation of “Juntos Podemos Contra el Cancer”  Children’s Outcome Research Program ◦ PCORI grant on Latina’s HPV vaccine initiation and completion disparities (PI: Demsey, A).  Colorado School of Public Health ◦ Social media for sexual and reproductive rights, access, and justice grant.  Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI) ◦ Latino hypertension disparities workgroup.

 Latina HPV vaccine and cervical cancer disparities ◦ Five research proposals to CDC, ACS, HHS, NIH. ◦ Hispanic Access Foundation, Denver Health & Hospital Authority, Salud Family Health Centers  Prevention and control of chronic diseases among Spanish-speaking Latinos ◦ One research proposal to the NIMHD ◦ Hispanic Access Foundation  Training of graduate students in health careers to address breast cancer disparities among Latinas ◦ One research proposal to the Susan G. Komen ◦ Denver Health & Hospital Authority