American Cancer Society Awards Howard University $4 Million to Establish Cancer Health Equity Research Center
By Sholnn Z. Freeman The American Cancer Society (ACS) has awarded Howard University a four-year $4.08 million grant to establish a Cancer Health Equity Research Center (CHERC), one of multiple such centers that ACS is creating with other educational institutions and amounts to an investment of $16 million nationally. ACS officials said addressing the root causes of cancer health disparities in the context of the social determinants of health is essential to accelerating progress in health equity research. “It is our expectation that the Cancer Health Equity Research Centers at Howard University will prove to be pivotal in altering the field of cancer