# University of Hawaii Cancer Center CCSG

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · 2021 · $115,000

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
 The state of Hawaii is spread across a 1,500-mile non-contiguous archipelago, with 34% of the population
living in rural communities, Health promotion programs in Hawaii, including cancer prevention services, are
challenging within these rural and medically underserved communities, who have limited access to healthcare.
Through the support of an Administrative Supplement to the Cancer Center Support Grant, the University of
Hawaii Cancer Center (UHCC) has utilized a Community Health Educator (CHE) as part of the UHCC Community
Outreach and Engagement (COE) component to extend our evidence-based, community engagement and
education strategies to reach these rural and medically underserved communities. The long-term goal of these
activities is to increase knowledge and access to cancer prevention programs and reduce the local burden of
cancer. In March 2020, statewide COVID-19 health and safety protocols were enacted in Hawaii, limiting travel
and public group interactions, curtailing our CHE’s outreach efforts. However, our CHE successfully adapted the
in-person sessions on clinical trials and HPV vaccination to online sessions using Zoom and Facebook
Messenger.
 This proposal intends to extend and enhance these effective community outreach strategies used during
COVID-19 restrictions. We will add the support of a Research Assistant (RA) to help conduct both on-line and
in-person community-based group education and discussion sessions. We will continue to promote participation
in clinical trials, knowledge of and uptake of HPV vaccination, and expand our work towards increasing colorectal
screening through the Screen to Save program. We will use either on-line or in-person education depending on
state and county COVID-19 health and safety precautions. We expect to reach 400 participants statewide
annually during two years. Our Specific Aims are to:
1) Work with UHCC stakeholder and advisory groups using community-based participatory approaches to
continue to culturally-adapt clinical trial, HPV vaccination, and Screen to Save (S2S) educational resources from
the NCI’s National Outreach Network (NON) and locally developed resources. These resources will continue to
be used with Hawaii’s medically underserved rural, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders populations; and
2) In collaboration with UHCC’s community cancer control partners, the Hawaii Comprehensive Cancer Control
Program, the Hawaii Primary Care Association, and the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, our CHE will reach a
total of 400 Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islanders and rural participants to conduct community-based group
education and discussion sessions. The sessions will be held as permitted within COVID-19 guidelines as either
in-person or on-line sessions with ~8 to 20 participants each, on clinical trials, HPV vaccinations and colorectal
cancer screening. We expect to hold ~20 to 40 groups annually, over two years

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10372802
- **Project number:** 3P30CA071789-21S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA
- **Principal Investigator:** Joe William Ramos
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $115,000
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 1997-07-01 → 2023-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10372802

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10372802, University of Hawaii Cancer Center CCSG (3P30CA071789-21S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10372802. Licensed CC0.

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