A three-year, $689,000 grant from
the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation will enable Roswell Park's
Department of Indigenous Cancer Health and the University of New Mexico's Native American Budget
and Policy Institute to translate a patient navigation program for
Indigenous communities to serve the unique needs of people of the
Pueblo Nations.
- Groundbreaking patient navigation model for other
communities
- Puebloan principles to be incorporated into model to best serve
population
- Grant is third awarded to Roswell Park by Bristol Myers Squibb
Foundation
BUFFALO,
N.Y. and ALBUQUERQUE,
N.M., Aug. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A new
collaboration will see Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
partnering with the University of New
Mexico (UNM), supported by a grant from the Bristol Myers
Squibb Foundation, to address health disparities for the Pueblo
Nations of New Mexico.
This grant will provide the initial support
these teams need to install a sustainable safety net system for
Puebloan communities. The program will focus on lung cancer
screening and overall education on environmental and lifestyle
factors that contribute to cancer development.
A three-year, $689,000 grant
recently awarded by the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, an
independent charitable organization (BMS Foundation), will empower
Roswell Park's Department of Indigenous Cancer Health and UNM's
Native American Budget and Policy Institute to collaboratively
translate the success of Roswell Park's patient navigation services
for Indigenous communities in Western New
York to a program that will serve the unique needs of people
of the Pueblo Nations.
This effort expands on a three-year, $3.3
million program also supported by the BMS Foundation.
Through that effort, Roswell Park installed full-time patient
navigators in high-need, local, rural and Native communities to
break down barriers surrounding cancer prevention, screening,
treatment and education.
"The partnership between Roswell Park's Department of Indigenous
Cancer Health and the University of New
Mexico's Native American Budget and Policy Institute is an
outstanding example of building on community relationships to
provide meaningful impact for Indigenous peoples," says
Rodney Haring, PhD, MSW, Chair of
Roswell Park's Department of Indigenous Cancer Health. "By working
collectively and sharing best practices for Indigenous-based
patient navigation services, health education and health policy, we
are able to braid a successful model for community-based
implementation into early cancer screening and lung cancer
prevention, while also addressing environmental health and health
policy."
Now, this comprehensive services model developed at Roswell Park
is being adapted to serve communities in New Mexico, advancing health equity for Native
populations outside of the immediate community served by Roswell
Park in Western and Upstate New York.
"The Roswell Park UNM-NABPI collaborative is bringing critical
health resources to address the immediate needs of New Mexico's tribal communities, while setting
the standard of care for our future generations," says Carmela Roybal, PhD, MBGPH, Executive Director
of the Native American Budget and Policy Institute at UNM.
In the same way that Dr. Haring and his team built Roswell
Park's program around the values and ideas of regional Native
tribes, Drs. Haring and Roybal will structure this new program
around Puebloan guiding concepts: the Canes of Sovereignty
Principles. Centering Indigenous wisdom in providing care to Native
communities is a key component to effectively reaching the local
communities in a trustworthy and respectful manner.
This grant will provide the initial support these teams need to
install a sustainable safety net system for Puebloan communities.
The program will focus on lung cancer screening and overall
education on environmental and lifestyle factors that contribute to
cancer development.
"We are proud to collaborate with Roswell Park and UNM-NABPI in
this critical work to improve patient outcomes in New Mexico," says Catharine Grimes, President of the BMS
Foundation. "By strengthening local capacity, we have the
opportunity to close health equity gaps and help navigate patients
to finding the cancer care that works best for them."
The new grant is the third research collaboration between the
Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation and Roswell Park. The Foundation
recently supported another initiative at Roswell Park through the
Go2 Foundation, a lung cancer screening and education project led
by Mary Reid, BSN, MSPH, PhD.
From the world's first chemotherapy research to the PSA prostate
cancer biomarker, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
generates innovations that shape how cancer is detected, treated
and prevented worldwide. Driven to eliminate cancer's grip on
humanity, the Roswell Park team of 4,000 makes compassionate,
patient-centered cancer care and services accessible across
New York State and beyond. Founded
in 1898, Roswell Park was among the first three cancer centers
nationwide to become a National Cancer Institute-designated
comprehensive cancer center and is the only one to hold this
designation in Upstate New York. To learn more about Roswell Park
Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Roswell Park Care Network,
visit http://www.roswellpark.org, call 1-800-ROSWELL (1-800-767-9355) or email
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Media Contact
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