Mission Statement & Goals

The mission of the Carolina Community Network Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CCN II) is to reduce breast, prostate and colorectal cancer health disparities among African American adults in North Carolina by leveraging long-standing university-community relationships and the community-based participatory research expertise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to enhance and extend cancer education and outreach, evidence-based research, and training.

The goals of the Carolina Community Network Center are to:

• Increase the community's knowledge of, access to, and use of beneficial biomedical and behavioral procedures;
• Develop and perform evidence-based intervention research aimed at reducing cancer health disparities; and
• Increase the number of qualified researchers experienced in using community-based participatory research approaches to reduce cancer health disparities.