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HPV Vaccination Equity in Rural Utah & the Mountain West

Mentored undergraduate engagement in the orbit of Dr. Kepka's HPV vaccination work — learning the research, helping with supporting tasks, and following the coalition's outreach. [confirm: Logan's specific role/tasks]

Improving uptake of the HPV vaccine — a cancer-prevention tool — among rural and underserved communities across the Mountain West, the domain of the coalition Dr. Deanna Kepka founded and leads.

Rural Cancer-Prevention Access & Screening Disparities

Mentored undergraduate engagement — reading the rural-disparities literature and learning the data sources behind it, in the orbit of Mountain West cancer-prevention work. [confirm: Logan's specific role/tasks]

Rural communities face higher cancer mortality and lower screening uptake than urban areas; this area studies why, and what closes the gap.

Community-Based Participatory Research in Cancer-Prevention Outreach

Mentored undergraduate engagement — learning CBPR principles and how they shape cancer-prevention outreach, in the orbit of Dr. Kepka's community work. [confirm: Logan's specific role/tasks]

CBPR is an equitable approach where researchers and community members collaborate on every stage of a study — a core method for reducing cancer disparities and the backbone of culturally tailored outreach in the Mountain West.

Place-Based & Structural Determinants of Cancer-Screening Access

Mentored undergraduate engagement — learning how area-level indices (e.g., SVI) and GIS are used to study cancer-screening access. [confirm: Logan's specific role/tasks]

Where people live shapes whether they can get screened; this area uses GIS and area-level vulnerability indices to map and explain place-based gaps in cancer prevention.