HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 12191989 - 1.57 TO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. f J
FROM• Mark Finucane
Health Services Director Contra
Costa
DATE'. December 5, 1989 County
SUBJECT: National Cancer Institute - Breast and Cervical
Cancer Prevention Proposal
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I . RECOMMENDED ACTION: Authorize Dr. Wendel Brunner, Contra
Costa Public Health Director, to apply to the National Cancer
Institute as a Co-Principal Investigator along with Florence
Stroud, R.N. , San Francisco Department of Public Health, and
Len Syme, M.D. , University of California School of Public
Health, for a grant to develop a breast and cervical cancer
prevention program through the Bay Area Cancer Coalition
(BACC) . Approve Dr. Brunner to direct the implementation of
this project, along with Florence Stroud and Dr. Syme, through
the California Public . Health Foundation, the fiscal
intermediary for the Bay Area . Cancer .Coalition.
II . FISCAL IMPACT: The Bay Area Cancer Coalition will be applying
to the National Cancer Institute for approximately $300, 000
per year for five years to implement breast and cervical
cancer detection and prevention programs in the Bay Area.
Specific interventions will be targeted to San Francisco and
Contra Costa counties, and funds will be included in the
budget to share the experiences of the intervention with the
other members of BACC. As the funds will be administered
through the California Public Health Foundation, there will
be no direct fiscal impact on the Contra Costa County Health
Services Department budget. However, a portion of the NCI
resources obtained through this grant will be directed towards
cancer detection and prevention programs in Contra Costa
County.
III . REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATION/BACKGROUND: The Bay Area Cancer
Coalition, formed in 1987 at the initiative of the Contra
Costa County Board of Supervisors, is a consortium of Bay Area
health departments, community-based cancer prevention
projects, the State Health Services Department, the University
of California School of Public Health and Medical School, the
Stanford Health Promotion Resource Center, the Northern
California Cancer Center, the Heart and Lung Associations, and
the Cancer Society. The purpose of BACC is to identify cancer
patterns and, trends on a regional basis in the Bay Area and
develop regional interventions to prevent cancer or reduce
cancer morbidity and mortality. The BACC has obtained funding
from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Northern California
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1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES:_ NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: Ilealth Services _ ATTESTED DEC.1-" g_ _..
Public Health_- PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Attn': W. °Bruriner, IT.D. SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
by ,DEPUTY
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Cancer Center, and has been working actively to develop a
relationship with the National Cancer Institute. The grant
application we are submitting on behalf of BACC to the NCI
will, if successful, begin to develop a track record for BACC
with this major funding source that would have important long
term implications .
The Bay Area Cancer Coalition would be an ideal mechanism to
facilitate the implementation of the prospective occupational
and environmental cancer study being planned by the Contra
Costa County Health Services Department. This proposed breast
and cervical cancer project would help establish the
credibility of BACC which would be required to be considered
for any serious funding for a prospective epidemiological
cancer study.
IV. CONSEQUENCES OF NEGATIVE ACTION: N/A.
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