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Center for SOcial CApital (SOCA): Promoting Multigenerational Health

Award Number: U54CA280808
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 05/31/2023
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/30/2028

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Center for SOcial CApital (SOCA): Promoting Multigenerational Health - The overarching mission of the Center for Social Capital (SoCa) is to bring together academic institutions, community-based organizations, and a unique group of stakeholders to improve cancer risk and outcomes. New York City (NYC) is a region of extremes with some of the richest and poorest living in close proximity. These extremes have profound impact on health with major disparities in life expectancy with cancer driving these differences as the number 1 and 2 cause of premature mortality and overall mortality, respectively. NYC is one of the most heterogenous in the U.S., with approximately 2/3 non-White, 1/3 foreign-born, and at least 1/5 living below the Federal poverty line across four counties with persistent poverty. With such a heterogenous population, come challenges with respect to implementing cancer control programs to meet the needs of all. Using a community-engaged approach, we identified the top three structural determinants that exerted the greatest barriers to early detection and treatment of cancer in communities of persistent poverty were; 1) financial burden; 2) low health literacy, and 3) community/ social context (i.e., lack of social support/cohesion, stigma, discrimination). NYC has a long history of migration and immigration, which has resulted in racially/ethnically segregated communities. Residential segregation concentrates disadvantages in minority communities by limiting social, economic, and educational opportunities and resources while concentrating poverty in these communities. However, for some segments of the population, especially new immigrants, residing in a highly segregated community has positive health effects through co-ethnic social support networks also known as “ethnic enclaves” and resource availability. Hence the constructs of social capital and social cohesion may play a significant role in mediating the relationship between residential segregation and negative health outcomes, such as cancer incidence and mortality. Our mission as a Center is to improve cancer risk and outcomes in persistent poverty census tracts throughout NYC by promoting multi-generational health. Specifically, we aim to: Develop a rich interdisciplinary, and collaborative partnership with community organizations that will infuse stakeholder-engaged research methods and will build sustainable approaches for cancer control (Aim 1); Conduct two complementary projects that focus on novel interventions in persistent poverty communities aimed at two structural determinants of health—education and health care—in which the interventions aim to increase social capital among youth in school settings, and patient navigators in Federally Qualified Health Centers as a means to alleviate disparate cancer risks and outcomes (Aim 2); and leverage capacity across four geographically separate groups of persistent poverty census tracts in NYC to cultivate the next generation of investigators and develop sustainable Core infrastructure to achieve improved cancer health outcomes (Aim 3).


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $1,679,086 )
2025	2025	WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY	575 LEXINGTON AVE FL 9	NEW YORK	NY	10022	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	002	3	8/26/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$1,679,086
2025	2024	WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY	575 LEXINGTON AVE FL 9	NEW YORK	NY	10022	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	001	2	3/11/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2025	2024	WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY	575 LEXINGTON AVE FL 9	NEW YORK	NY	10022	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	000	2	1/23/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $1,679,086

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $1,824,085 )
2024	2024	WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY	575 LEXINGTON AVE FL 9	NEW YORK	NY	10022	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	002	2	5/6/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$1,824,085
2024	2024	WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY	575 LEXINGTON AVE FL 9	NEW YORK	NY	10022	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	003	2	5/15/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2023	WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY	575 LEXINGTON AVE FL 9	NEW YORK	NY	10022	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	001	1	4/29/2024	NEW	$0
2024	2023	WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY	575 LEXINGTON AVE FL 9	NEW YORK	NY	10022	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	000	1	4/10/2024	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $1,824,085

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $2,087,918 )
2023	2023	WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY	1300 YORK AVE	NEW YORK	NY	10065	NEW YORK	USA	Cancer Centers Support Grants	000	1	5/31/2023	NEW	$2,087,918
														Subtotal = $2,087,918

Grand Total All Awards = $5,591,089

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Center for SOcial CApital (SOCA): Promoting Multigenerational Health

Award Number: U54CA280808

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 05/31/2023

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/30/2028

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