Dr. Elizabeth Cox and Collaborators Receive Carbone Cancer Center’s Rural Cancer Pilot Award

Elizabeth CoxHIP Investigator, Dr. Elizabeth Cox in collaboration with the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ), Dr. Melissa Gilkey (University of North Carolina), and members of the PROKids team received a Carbone Cancer Center Rural Cancer Pilot Award. The project, “On-Time HPV Vaccination for Rural Wisconsin Youth” will help inform interventions at the healthcare system-level that focus on low rates of HPV vaccination in rural Wisconsin. The project will use WCHQ data to develop and validate metrics of on-time HPV vaccination initiation and completion in Wisconsin health systems. The team will also interview stakeholders to better understand barriers and facilitators related to HPV vaccination to inform future interventions.