Office of Health Equity

The DCI Community Outreach, Engagement, and Equity program hosted the inaugural MaryAnn Black Distinguished Health Equity Lecture in honor of the late MaryAnn Black.

DCI COEE moves the conversation forward on the barriers faced by sexual & gender minorities in accessing cancer care and why these barriers exist.

On Feb. 2 at noon, the Southeastern American Indian Cancer Health Equity Partnership hosts DCI breast surgeon Hannah Woriax, MD, for a virtual lecture (with CME credit available).

Tomi Akinyemiju, PhD, meticulously studies what drives cancer outcomes in populations in the United States and across the globe. 

Watch this COEE Community Conversation to learn ways to keep the lungs healthy through tobacco cessation: "Helping You or Your Loved Ones Kick Tobacco, One Day at a Time."

In October, the DCI Office of Health Equity & the Mexican Consulate in Raleigh brought awareness to breast, uterine, and cervical cancer detection and prevention.

"What's Best For Breasts? A Conversation with Duke Clinicians" was held online on Oct. 2. Topics included imaging, genetic testing, breast cancer risk assessment & prevention.

DCI medical oncologists Angeles Alvarez Secord, MD, MHSc, and Rafael Gonzalez, MD, & genetics counselor Maggie Frazier, MS, CGC discussed ovarian cancer, in this DCI OHE event for the community. 

On Sept. 14, the DCI Office of Health Equity hosted "Barbershop Talk—  Let's Have a Man to Man Discussion About Prostate Cancer."

This OHE event, taped Aug. 19, focused on leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma: risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis,  latest treatments.

DCI's Office of Health Equity hosted a virtual event on the importance of primary care in early cancer detection on July 20, 2021. Watch the recording.

The DCI Office of Health Equity hosted a clinical trials primer for the community led by Angelo Moore, PhD, RN, in partnership with the Durham Men's Health Council. (5.18)

DCI clinicians raised more than $3,500 for Lincoln Community Health Center to support free cancer screening & primary care appointments

This OHE-hosted talk featured director of the Patierno/George/Freedman Lab Jennifer Freedman, PhD, and postdocs Tyler Allen, PhD, and Sean Piwarski, PhD.

Moore, Aguilera-Funez, Barnett, Ingraham, Pollak and Kennedy recognized with a Duke Presidential Award as part of the LATIN-19 team.

At a community forum hosted by the DCI Office of Health Equity, surgical oncologists Michael Stang, MD, and Trinitia Cannon, MD, talk thyroid cancer & HPV-associated cancers.

The Mexican Consulate and DCI OHE collaborated on a community forum on breast and cervical cancer for Women's Month (marked in March in Mexico).

Speakers at the community event features an OHE patient navigator, Duke GI physician, & the dir. of the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable – Colorectal Cancer Interventions.

In the age of Covid, Community Outreach & Engagement at DCI comes of age, team expands with disparities researcher/associate director

The DCI Office of Health Equity and community partner Nuestras Voces convened a virtual community forum on cervical cancer with Drs. Secord and Gonzalez.

Angelo Moore, PhD, MSN, RN, NE-BC, retired from the Army in 2015, but his service to his countrymen continues. In civilian life, he serves the historically underserved.

Tristan Evans walked around his neighborhood with his daughter Janelle for colon cancer awareness. Dozens social-distanced for the March 21 Duke CRUSH 5K.

Deputy Director of Duke Cancer Institute Steven Patierno, PhD, is energized by his decades-long work in cancer control and cancer health disparities.