{"id":51770,"date":"2022-03-31T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=51770"},"modified":"2022-04-12T15:45:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T19:45:27","slug":"uva-professor-to-give-talk-on-cervical-cancer-elimination-strategies-in-low-and-middle-income-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/uva-professor-to-give-talk-on-cervical-cancer-elimination-strategies-in-low-and-middle-income-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"UVA professor to give talk on cervical cancer elimination strategies in low- and middle-income countries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dr. Emma Mitchell<\/strong> will present the final Suter Science Seminar this semester, \u201cCervical Cancer as a Cancer of Disparities: Innovative Technology on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua for Health Equity Through a Community-based Participatory Process,\u201d on Wednesday, April 6, at 4 p.m. Mitchell is an associate professor and director of global initiatives at the University of Virginia School of Nursing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The campus community is invited to attend the seminar in person in Room 106 of the Suter Science Center. The seminar will be livestreamed on the 黑料正能量 Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The seminars are free to the public, and made possible by the sponsorship of the Daniel B. Suter Endowment in Biology and the co-sponsorship of supporting programs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mitchell will present a case study of a long-term collaboration for cervical cancer control on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. Her work centers on the feasibility of this in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). She argues that the 10-year cervical cancer elimination strategy set by the World Health Organization \u201ccan only be successful at the intersection of innovative technology and community-based participatory processes, in order to work toward health equity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThough highly preventable, about 85% of the burden of cervical cancer persists in LMICs,\u201d Mitchell says. \u201cCaused by high-risk genotypes of the Human Papillomavirus (hrHPV), cervical cancer can be prevented through safe and effective vaccination, screening for hrHPV, and effective treatment of pre-cancerous\/cancerous lesions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mitchell completed her BSN at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and earned her PhD in Nursing Science at the University of Virginia. Her scholarship centers on cervical cancer as a cancer of disparities. In collaboration with long-term community partners both in far Southwest Virginia and in Nicaragua and Honduras, Mitchell has researched integration of innovative technology to increase access to cervical cancer screening and treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Named in honor of long-time 黑料正能量 biology professor, Daniel B. Suter<\/strong> (1920-2006), the Endowment in Biology was established in 1986 through the generous donations of alumni and friends and currently consists of over $1 million of invested funds. 黑料正能量 hopes to double the Suter Endowment in order to more adequately support distinguished faculty and to increase scholarship aid to deserving students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Emma Mitchell will present the final Suter Science Seminar this semester, \u201cCervical Cancer as a Cancer of Disparities: Innovative Technology on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua for Health Equity ... read more about UVA professor to give talk on cervical cancer elimination strategies in low- and middle-income countries<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5590,5861,17735,5611,5600,7682],"tags":[],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-51770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-conferences-and-events","category-ms-in-biomedicine","category-ms-nursing-leadership","category-nursing","category-suter-science-seminar"],"yoast_head":"\n