Florence Dallo, PhD, MPH
Professor of Public Health
Oakland University
Morhaf Al Achkar, MD, PhD, MSCR
Associate Center Director of Education
Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
Abstract: The Office of Management and Budget recently revised their policy on standards for maintaining, collecting, and presenting federal data on race and ethnicity. One of these revisions includes adding Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) as a reporting category for race and ethnicity that is separate and distinct from the White category. In addition, the National Institutes of Health now includes MENA as a minority health population. Yet cancer research centered on MENA populations living in the US is limited. In this program, speakers will discuss the importance of disaggregating data of MENA population and describe the current state of cancer research among MENA populations.
Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences