Collaborative Community Health Partnerships

HNS&CS invites community participation on relevant issues and forms partnerships within the community for specific projects and initiatives.

Project CHECKERS: Community Head and NEck Cancer Knowledge, Engagement, Research and Screening

Project CHECKERS addresses prevention and early detection of head and neck cancers in a population that has minimal access to healthcare.

Hearing Health in the Community

Providing hearing health education and screenings with a focus on older adults.

Latinx Family Support Meetings

This collaborative effort between Duke Hearing Center, UNC, BEGINNINGS for Parents of Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Med-El, and a local parent advocate provides Spanish-speaking parents of children with hearing loss with an opportunity to learn and connect to each other in quarterly meetings.

What Should You Know About Head and Neck Cancer

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May Gao, MS3, Wins MaryAnn Black Health Equity Impact Award

May Gao, MS3 at Duke School of Medicine, won the MaryAnn Black Health Equity Impact Award at the MaryAnn Black Distinguished Health Equity Symposium for her poster on barriers to head and neck cancer screening in immigrants.
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Examples From the Field: "Project Checkers: Novel Community-Engaged Research for Head and Neck Cancers" Event

The Duke Clinical & Translational Science Institute’s Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERI) invites you to the "Examples From the Field" talk, featuring Dr. Cannon and Leda Scearce. The talk, titled "Project Checkers: Novel Community-Engaged Research for Head and Neck Cancers Advancing Community-Engaged Research Practices at Duke and Beyond," will showcase innovative research practices.