Dr. Hughes Halbert was awarded the @Americancancersociety Clinical Research Professor Grant. Her research will take a data-driven, translational approach to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative solutions to understand and address primary drivers of #lungcancer disparities. Dr. Hughes Halbert will work with patient advocates, community stakeholders, and health care providers, to conduct behavioral and population-based research to understand disparities and multilevel determinants of lung cancer risk and screening behaviors and to improve access and uptake of lung cancer screening through a social determinants of health patient navigation intervention.
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