Health Disparities Timeline
Below is a timeline of important events and reports occurring in cancer health disparities at NCI. For more information about reports and publications on health disparities, please visit our Background Literature page.
| 1973 | Henschke UK, et al. publishes Alarming Increase of Cancer Mortality in the U.S. Black Population (1950-1967). | |
| 1985 | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services releases the Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health. |  |
| 1986 | Inception of Leadership Initiatives by National Cancer Advisory Board. | |
| 1989 | NCI founds the National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer. | |
| 1992 | NCI establishes the National Hispanic Leadership Initiative and Appalachian Leadership Initiative on Cancer. | |
| 1994 | NCAB evaluation of National Cancer Program states significant barrier to success against cancer is lack of access to effective cancer care and education among the poor and other specific populations. |  |
| 1995 | NCI establishes the Office of Special Population Research. | |
| 1999 | Institute of Medicine releases The Unequal Burden of Cancer, and the President's Cancer Panel issued Discovery Must Be Linked to Delivery. |  |
| 2000 | NCI establishes 18 special Populations Networks. | |
| 2000 | NCI drafts a five-year strategic plan focused on reducing cancer-related health disparities. | |
| 2000 | NCI identifies reducing cancer-related health disparities a new challenge in the FY2002 Bypass Budget. | |
| 2001 | NCI Director elevates and expands the Office of Special Populations Research to Center status and appoints Dr. Harold Freeman as Director-cancer health disparities are a high priority. | |
| 2001 | President's Cancer Panel issues Voices of a Broken System: Real People, Real Problems. |  |
| 2001 | NCI establishes the Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD). | |
| 2003 | Institute of Medicine issues Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare. |  |
| 2003 | NCI Director further elevates focus on cancer health disparities by challenging NCI to eliminate suffering and death due to cancer by 2015. | |
| 2004 | Trans-HHS Cancer Health Disparities Progress Review Group issues Making Cancer Health Disparities History. | |
| 2005 | NCI establishes 25 Community Networks Programs, building on the Special Populations Networks. | |
| 2005 | NCI creates the Patient Navigation Research Program. | |
Milestones in Cancer Health Disparities
