Collaborators

University of Mississippi Medical Center

Located in Jackson, the University of Mississippi Medical Center is the state’s only academic medical center and encompasses six health science schools, including medicine, nursing, health related professions, dentistry, pharmacy and graduate studies. The Medical Center’s healthcare enterprise includes the state’s only level one trauma center and its only children’s hospital.  UMMC’s education, research and healthcare missions share the objectives of improving the health of the state’s population and eliminating health disparities. Find more information at http://www.umc.edu.

The University of Mississippi Medical Center’s CANCER INSTITUTE is dedicated to providing world-class cancer care that involves research, clinical trials, drug development, and outpatient treatment, both comprehensive and cutting edge. Defeating cancer takes a team. At the Cancer Institute, researchers, doctors and allied medical staff work together with their patients to provide better access to screening and treatment, and to provide better treatment, all with a goal of ending cancer.

The medical arm of UMMC’s Cancer Institute, UNIVERSITY CANCER CARE, uses a multidisciplinary team of skilled surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, radiologists, pathologists and allied healthcare professionals who offer state-of-the-art treatment for malignancies and suspected malignancies. This team approach means patients benefit from a full array of cancer specialists. It also means doctors scrutinize treatment options and the latest research so they can recommend the most advanced procedures and appropriate clinical trials. This enables them to present a jointly formulated treatment plan that coordinates all aspects of care to enable the best possible patient outcome.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the nation's premier public health agency working to ensure healthy people in a healthy world. Their mission is to collaborate to create the expertise, information, and tools that people and communities need to protect their health - through health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and disability, and preparedness for new health threats.

CDC seeks to accomplish its mission by working with partners throughout the nation and the world to monitor health, detect and investigate health problems, conduct research to enhance prevention, develop and advocate sound public health policies, implement prevention strategies, promote healthy behaviors, foster safe and healthful environments, and provide leadership and training.