Bruce D. Rapkin, Ph.D.
- Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health (Health Behavior Research & Implementation Science)
- Professor, Department of Family and Social Medicine
- Associate Director, Community Outreach and Engagement, Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Co-Leader, Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cancer Epidemiology Prevention & Control Program
Area of research
- My research focuses on building community-academic partnerships that can reduce barriers and improve standard of care.
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Location
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine 1225 Morris Park Avenue Van Etten 3A2E Bronx, NY 10461
Professional Interests
My research focuses on how community-academic partnerships can reduce barriers and improve standard of care.
My colleagues and I have conducted several projects to promote evidence-based clinical practice through collaborative research. Some examples include:
§ Our ACCESS Project, which worked with community organizations to promote breast health awareness and mammography screening.
§ A series of studies -- for which I also am principal investigator -- examines the quality of life of patients living with HIV/AIDS, bladder cancer and prostate cancer.
Our collaborative research with community organizations and health providers led to new research designs and assessment methodology to promote evidence-based interventions in public health. For example, the Quality of Life Appraisal Model accounts for differences in the ways that health states are evaluated across people and over time. More recently, we have established Comprehensive Dynamic Trial designs to describe multi-level interventions in community-based, participatory research.