Culturally specific interventions to reduce tobacco-related health disparities
Dr. Monica Webb Hooper is a leader in the field of cancer health disparities, internationally recognized for her tobacco research. She is Director of the Office of Cancer Disparities Research in the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University. She is also Professor of Oncology, Family Medicine & Community Health and Psychological Sciences.\n\n3:50 - What are cancer disparities?\n\n6:09 \u2013 The listening tour her cancer center underwent to learn more about community health care needs, perceptions, desires, and experiences\n\n8:29 \u2013 Tobacco-related health disparities and the unique role that stress has on ethnic and racial disparities\n\n14:14 \u2013 Culturally specific interventions for African Americans, how to increase access to these interventions, and the challenges of keeping patients engaged using mobile applications \n\n22:56 \u2013 How to find the web-based intervention, \u201cPathways to Freedom: Leading the Way to a Smoke-Free Community\u201d\n\n23:42 \u2013 The mission of the Tobacco Obesity Oncology Laboratory (TOOL)\n\n25:12 \u2013 The impact of ACS funding on her work\n\n26:34 \u2013 A message she\u2019d like to share with cancer patients