Tomi Akinyemiju joins a robust core team of community outreach and engagement (COE) leaders at DCI that includes Patierno; medical sociologist Nadine Barrett, PhD, MS, MA, founding director of the Office of Health Equity and current director of Equity, Community and Stakeholder Strategy at both DCI and the Duke Clinical & Translational Science Institute; and Angelo Moore, PhD, MSN, RN, who currently leads the DCI Office of Health Equity (OHE).
Duke Cancer Institute COE leaders and staff, together with DCI researchers and clinicians, partner with municipal, county, state, and federal health agency associated groups and committees; community groups, churches, and local and national non-profit advocacy organizations to maximize DCI’s collective impact on reducing cancer incidence and mortality rates in the underserved communities of DCI’s catchment area. Read more here.