The Carolina Community Network

The Carolina Community Network (CCN) is a regional cancer network developed to reduce prostate, breast and colorectal cancer disparities among adult African Americans in North Carolina.

The CCN includes five resource cores based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and partners in the central and eastern regions of the state, who work together to increase the success of cancer prevention and treatment activities, increase the number of community members actively involved in clinical trials and other forms of research, and strengthen the community's knowledge of cancer risks and prevention.

The goal of the CCN is to combine the strengths of the community with resources and research expertise at UNC to reduce cancer disparities through education, research and training.

Network Structure

The Carolina Community Network (CCN) involves researchers from the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Center, the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health the UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. The CCN's infrastructure includes five resource cores, with specialized expertise in the areas of cancer education, community-based participatory research training, pilot studies, minority recruitment, and health policy and dissemination.

The Carolina Community Network is one of 25 Community Networks Program (CNP) sites funded by NCI's Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities.

• Mission Statement & Goals
   
• Partners
   
• Steering Committee
   
• Community Advisory Board
   
• Resource Cores