SFSU/UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Partnership Program

Partnership Abstract

The partnership between San Francisco State University (SFSU) and the University of California Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCSFCC) focuses on cancer research, a training program to encourage and prepare minority nursing students to earn Ph.D. degrees focusing on cancer health disparities research, community outreach, education and minority faculty development. One of the major activities of the proposed program is a recruitment activity that will result in the immediate hiring of a senior-level bio-behavioral researcher at SFSU and, over the next five-years, the hiring of six junior-level faculty researchers--all of whom will form the core of a new Bio-behavioral Research Center at SFSU.

The President of SFSU committed $1M to help build-out this new Center, and to allocating ongoing personnel funds for a tenured, senior level professor to fill this position. The proposal is the result of extensive planning among faculty and administrators at SFSU and the UCSFCC who took into careful consideration the strengths and weaknesses of both institutions and the ways in which the institutions could complement and strengthen each other's work. Projects, programs, and activities selected for this proposal are those that will mutually benefit both partners and surrounding neighborhoods which are poorly served by the health care network. A direct benefit will be the enrollment of individuals from minority groups into cancer prevention trials. SFSU and the UCSFCC commitment to this partnership is to develop a stable cancer research program at SFSU, to develop closer connections between the UCSFCC and minority communities, to work with community organizations to develop novel programs which take advantage of the combined resources and strengths of the SFSU/UCSFCC partnership, and to work toward the development of a U54 program grant.