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Our Motivation: Reduce the mortality of women of color from breast cancer

Our Process: 

Community Co-Design

 

  • Understand and define the issues surrounding breast cancer mortality in black women.   

  • Gather together community members and advocates, leaders from breast cancer clinics, radiology clinics, public health officials, breast cancer screening programs, nonprofit organizations and businesses

  • Use community co-design to create prototypes that can be replicate.

  • Nurture public, private, and community partnerships to provide insight, access, and funding to move this work forward. 

  • Develop public, private, and community partnerships to provide insight, access, and funding to move this work forward. 

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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Support

 

Due to their strategic commitment to address racial and health inequities in Minnesota, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota provided initial funding for Phases 3 and  4. This will enable the MN Breast Cancer Gaps Project to empower community members and providers to co-design and test new ideas for change.

Our Project Team:

Gaps Project Directors:

 Kris Newcomer, former ED of Firefly Sisterhood and Pat Koppa, former VP of Public Education, American Cancer Society

Contact Information:

Kris Newcomer, KLN Consulting

krisnewcomer@gmail.com

612-396-5336

Pat Koppa, Public Health Consultants, LLC

patriciakoppa@gmail.com

Listening to Black Women Survey Report 1.19.22

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