Campus Connection

Cancer and Culture
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With AANCART’s national headquarters at UC Davis, faculty, students and commun- ity organizations will have unprecedented opportunities to build on such projects, in collaboration with top experts around the country, and to pursue new research and training efforts.

Chen also looks forward to collaborations with UC Davis faculty who study ways to reduce ethnic disparities in cancer. Among them: Dileep Bal, Diana Cassady, Chris Hawkes and Bruce Leistikow (see sidebars on pp. 20-21).

“There is enormous opportunity here,” Chen said, “to be a model for the country in how people of all different races and ethnic groups can work together to improve health for everyone.”

Dileep Bal

Dileep Bal, chief of the California Department of Health Services Cancer Control Branch and a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, is an internationally renowned leader in tobacco control, dietary influences on cancer and cancer screening, early detection, diagnosis and treatment. He will work closely with Moon Chen in efforts to address cancer in California minority populations.