Dr. Nynikka Palmer and the Road to Earlier, More Equitable Cancer Detection

"Black men are more than twice as likely to die from prostate cancer," says Nynikka Palmer, DrPH, MPH in a recent interview with UCSF News. 

Dr. Palmer is a Core Faculty member if the Action Research Center for Health Equity and currently has a National Cancer Institute-funded career development award to bridge the divide between low-income African American men and equal prostate cancer (PCa) treatment.

Find out how Dr. Palmer helped triple Prostate cancer screenings among Black men at some SF health providers as part of a first-of-its-kind partnership between UCSF and the City of San Francisco that’s paving the way for statewide changes.

Read the whole article by UCSF Web Science Writer, Laura López González.