Reducing HPV Associated Cancers and Disparities: Engaging African American Men to Develop a Culturally-Appropriate Program that Addresses their Needs.

Background: The program aims to improve preventive behaviors among African American men to reduce HPV-related cancer disparities.

Purpose: We describe the development of an educational intervention using cultural-targeting strategies (i.e.

Improving Community Advisory Board Engagement in Precision Medicine Research to Reduce Health Disparities.

Community Advisory Boards (CABs) are used in efforts to reduce health disparities; however, there is little documentation in the literature regarding their use in precision medicine research. In this case study, an academic-CAB partnership developed a questionnaire and patient educational materials for two precision smoking cessation interventions that involved use of genetic or genetically-informed information. The community-engaged research (CEnR) literature provided a framework for enhancing benefits to CAB members involved in developing research documents for use with a low-income, ethnically diverse population of smokers.