WELCOME TO Wincart!

Aloha – Hafa Adai – Malo e leiei - Talofa Lava - Yokwe - Welcome

Weaving an Islander Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training (WINCART) is a Community Network Program funded by the National Cancer Institute (grant number U01CA114591 and U54CA153458) to promote cancer education, research and training among Pacific Islanders in Southern California. WINCART is comprised of six community based organizations and researchers from four universities with the goal of reducing disparities in cancer incidence and mortality among among Chamorro, Marshallese, Native Hawaiian, Samoan, Tongan, and other Pacific Islanders. Founded in 2005, our network uses community-based participatory research partnerships between researchers in communities and universities to promote community capacity building and prevention education, cancer screening, early diagnosis, quality treatment and survivorship.

-- Paula Healani Palmer, PhD & Sora Park Tanjasiri, PhD, WINCART Principal Investigators