Johnson, Rhoda E. PhD; Green, B. Lee PhD; Anderson-Lewis, Charkarra PhD; Wynn, Theresa A. PhD
Department of Women's Studies, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (Dr Johnson) and the School of Medicine/Division of Preventive Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham (Dr Wynn); the Division of Health and Safety, Texas A&M University, College Station (Dr Green); and the Department of Community Health Sciences, the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg (Dr Anderson-Lewis).
Corresponding author: Rhoda E. Johnson, PhD, Department of Women's Studies, University of Alabama, Box 870272, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487–0272 (e-mail: [email protected]).
The authors thank Drs. Mona Fouad, Agnes Hinton, and Edward Partridge, project principal investigators, for their intellectual contribution and critical review; Dr. Marvin “Mitch” Shelton for data management; Ms. Leslie Zganjar for editorial coordination; Ms. Claudia Hardy and Ms. Freddie White-Johnson for their project management; the community health advisors as research partners (CHARPs) for participating in the talking circles and for completing thousands of contact logs; and the many other staff and participants in the Deep South Network for Cancer Control whose tireless efforts have made this program a success. The National Cancer Institute Grant U01 CA086128 supported the Deep South Network for Cancer Control program.