New podcast sheds light on cancer inequities

UW Health

The Cancer Clear and Simple podcast will be hosted by Joshua Wright, community project coordinator with the UW Carbone Cancer Health Disparities Initiative. The CHDI team is focused on thoughtful, culturally-sensitive outreach and education for communities who face a higher cancer burden, as well as building partnerships and fostering new research to address those inequity issues.

“The underserved populations that we’re seeing here in Wisconsin include African-American, Latinx, American Indian, Hmong, Rural and LGBTQ+. Fortunately, we have representation from all of those communities working at CHDI,” said Dr. Earlise Ward, program leader of CHDI. Read more…