(Bozeman) – Montana State University’s Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity (CAIRHE) in collaboration with a research center in Utah, has launched a new project that aims to address health in areas struggling with persistent poverty, including areas in Montana and other states.
This project which bring together MSU’s CAIRHE, the Center for Health Outcomes and Population Equity at Huntsman Cancer Institute, and the University of Utah is known as HOPE & CAIRHE 2gether, or HC2. The goal of the project is to empower institutions, clinics, communities and tribes to collaborate and develop a cancer prevention and control research program that focuses on and serves people living in persistent poverty.
The project is sponsored by a $9.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute.
