Cervical Cancer-Free Florida Coalition

http://www.cervicalcancerfreecoalition.org/partners/partner-states/florida/

Florida has the nation’s 3rd highest cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates in the United States. Minority, low income, and underinsured women remain at exaggerated risk of being diagnosed with and dying from cervical cancer largely due to underutilization of routine screening and timely follow up for detected abnormalities. 

The Cervical Cancer-Free Florida (CCFFL) Coalition is led by Moffitt Cancer Center and the University of Miami Sylvester Cancer. We will develop necessary infrastructure to support patient-centered translational inquiry to eliminate cervical cancer disparity throughout the state. We will accomplish this end by fostering unprecedented collaboration between diverse stakeholder communities throughout Florida now largely working in “siloes” to generate solutions for health and social change. Through engaging diverse stakeholders, we will enable greater coordination of efforts and resource sharing across Florida by creating a cadre of stakeholders working within a common paradigm focused on patient centered outcomes research.

The objectives for CCFFL are:

• To identify key patient/caregiver, provider, policy/payer stakeholders necessary to reduce the burden of cervical cancer in Florida
• To engage key patient/caregiver, provider, policy/payer stakeholders in the development of a statewide network reduce the burden of cervical cancer in Florida
• To create a state level agenda to reduce incidence, morbidity, and mortality of cervical cancer in Florida thorough sustained collaboration with key patient/caregiver, provider, policy/payer stakeholders. 

For more information, contact Susan Vadaparampil (susan.vadaparampil@moffitt.org) and Erin Kobetz-Kerman (EKobetz@med.miami.edu).