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This core supports and oversees all the components. Additionally, this core focus on:

• Training and capacity building in PR and the USVI.
• Increase infrastructure, capacity, and research related to the impact of climate change on the cancer control continuum and health disparities.
• Foster the development of investigators with expertise in this area in the Caribbean region.

Help guide climate change mitigation efforts.

Using a Human-Centered Design, this core:

• Involves the communities of the US Caribbean as partners in the research process, where this research can become a tool used by communities.
• Engenders effective ways of supporting an increased understanding of climate impacts and the linkage to public health issues in the cancer control continuum.
• Creates and disseminates culturally and linguistically appropriate information to the diverse and challenged communities.

This project employs a multi-method approach to identify helpful strategies for addressing the accentuated risk of cancer and climate vulnerabilities of the US Caribbean. Taking on:

• An epidemiological study to assess the risk of cancer in PR and USVI in relation to climate vulnerabilities and socioenvironmental factors.
• A cross-sectional study to assess understanding of climate stressors and its effects on mobilizing pollution and affecting the quality of life among cancer patients and survivors.
• A qualitative study using key informants and focus groups to determine the needs, priorities, and capacities of stakeholder groups, cancer patients, and residents living in sites with low/high environmental disparities in relation to adaptation to climate-induced vulnerabilities.