Peter Szilagyi
University of California-Los Angeles, CA·Public Health & Epidemiology
Human papillomavirus (HPV) causes about 33,700 cancer cases and 4,000 deaths in the US each year. It also adds about $4 billion in cancer-related medical costs, even though effective cancer-prevention steps exist.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
human papillomavirus
cancer prevention
implementation science
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Mar 2028
What they work on
- Adapt the STOP-HPV Cancer Online and STOP-HPV Cancer LC strategies so 8 health systems can run them, and describe their baseline practices, using mixed methods and the RE-AIM/PRISM framework.
- Compare cancer-prevention rates and cost-effectiveness for the two strategies and usual care in a 3-arm clustered RCT across 72 primary care practices, over 12 months plus 6 months of maintenance.
- Measure adoption, such as clinicians completing online modules, and reach across practices. Identify factors like organizational readiness that predict improvement, and test whether practices keep core activities going for 6 more months.
More about the research
Two barriers keep these steps from reaching patients. Clinicians often communicate about them poorly, and office routines let chances for in-office prevention slip by. This project asks how to fix both problems at the scale of whole health systems, since most primary care practices now belong to one.
Why it matters
HPV-related cancers could be reduced if more families received the guideline-based prevention that already exists. The study could give health systems two tested, affordable ways to improve HPV cancer prevention in primary care, one based on clinician training and one adding office workflow changes. Free online guides and AMGA's national network could help these approaches reach many practices and the families they serve.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
University of California-Los Angeles: 84 labs on PI Pages, $1.9B a year on research, 803 research doctorates a year.
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