Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local Views: Total views: 160 (85 Live, 75 On-demand) Category: WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures Runtime: 01:00:26 Description: NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series

Dr. Adams-Campbell's areas of research focus on addressing health disparities with particular emphasis on cancers that disproportionately impact African-Americans. Dr. Adams-Campbell's research focuses on lifestyle interventions including physical activity, energy balance, obesity, metabolic syndrome, and oral health among minority and underserved populations. She has considerable expertise in cohort studies including the Women’s Health Initiative and the Black Women’s Health Study (which follows a cohort of African American women to gather epidemiological data on health risks and disease development). She also oversees the Capital Breast Care Center (CBCC), a community-based patient navigation program. Dr. Adams-Campbell is the Principal Investigator of a Center of Excellence for Health Disparities that focuses on metabolic syndrome and breast cancer risk in an exercise intervention clinical trial. She has more than 200 peer reviewed publications.

For more information go to https://oir.nih.gov/wals/2018-2019 NLM Title: A community approach to breast cancer prevention : addressing health disparities / Lucile Adams-Campbell. Author: Adams-Campbell, Lucile. National Institutes of Health (U.S.), Publisher: Abstract: (CIT): NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series, Dr. Adams-Campbell's areas of research focus on addressing health disparities with particular emphasis on cancers that disproportionately impact African-Americans. Dr. Adams-Campbell's research focuses on lifestyle interventions including physical activity, energy balance, obesity, metabolic syndrome, and oral health among minority and underserved populations. She has considerable expertise in cohort studies including the Women's Health Initiative and the Black Women's Health Study (which follows a cohort of African American women to gather epidemiological data on health risks and disease development). She also oversees the Capital Breast Care Center (CBCC), a community-based patient navigation program. Dr. Adams-Campbell is the Principal Investigator of a Center of Excellence for Health Disparities that focuses on metabolic syndrome and breast cancer risk in an exercise intervention clinical trial. She has more than 200 peer reviewed publications. Subjects: African Americans Breast Neoplasms--prevention & control Community-Based Participatory Research Health Promotion Health Status Disparities United States Women's Health Publication Types: Lecture Webcast NLM Classification: WP 870 NLM ID: 101749140 CIT Live ID: 31983