Cancer Prevention Precision Control Institute (CPPCI)
The Cancer Prevention Precision Control Institute (CPPCI) leverages innovative behavioral science and health communication methodologies to address cancer prevention and control, community outreach and engagement, and improved health outcomes across the entire cancer care continuum.
CPPCI’s Mission
Create a transformational translational research Institute within the Center for Discovery & Innovation that connects science to practice with a tripartite mission focused on cancer prevention and control, improving patient outcomes through improved patient-clinician communication leveraging novel digital and social media outreach tools, and community-engaged participatory research methods.
- Leverage opportunities for community engagement in the greater New Jersey area to improve patient outcomes through cross-cutting cancer prevention and control-focused research;
- Increase the ‘precision’ of cancer prevention and control through tailored interventions as opposed to a ‘one size fits all’ approach;
- Employing innovative quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research methodology;
- Build a complementary research team at CDI that cross collaborates with the Georgetown Lombardi CPC research team to improve patient outcomes in the New Jersey and District of Columbia catchment areas (and beyond);
- Develop a community advisory board of diverse citizen scientists who represent the communities we serve to advise the CPPCI leadership quarterly on research needs, foci of clinical interest, and broader direction;
- Build a broad and robust extramural funding portfolio, robust extramural funding portfolio; and
- Recruit and retain exceptional, forward-thinking scholars committed to advancing the field of population sciences in cancer prevention and control.
CPPCI’s Team
Lisa Carter-Bawa, Ph.D., MPH, APRN, ANP-C, FAAN, FSBM
Director, CPPCI
lisa.carterbawa@hmh-cdi.org
Abraham Aragones, M.D.
Faculty member, CPPCI
abraham.aragones@hmh-cdi.org
Heather Derry-Vick, Ph.D.
Faculty Member, CPPCI
heather.derryvick@hmh-cdi.org
Ilona Fridman, Ph.D.
Faculty Member, CPPCI
Ilona.Fridman@hmh-cdi.org
Gary Kwok, Ph.D.
Faculty Member, CPPCI
gary.kwok@hmh-cdi.org
Erin April Hirsch, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Fellow, CPPCI
Ana Guadalupe Vielma, Ph.D.
CPC Project Associate, CPPCI
ana.vielma@hmh-cdi.org
Francis Valenzona
Program Coordinator
Francis.Valenzona@hmh-cdi.org
Affiliate Investigators
Christina Cho, M.D.
Nitin Yerram, M.D.
Antonia Francis Oladipo, M.D.