The CUPID Working Group 1-Interdisciplinary Co-Production Team is coordinating a Training School (TS) in Prague, which will combine in-person and virtual participation. The TS will include People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (PWIDD) and their support persons. The program features cancer prevention educational training alongside five virtual presentations tailored to a diverse audience. PDF REGISTER FOR VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS All sessions…
Dedicated to research, collaboration, and capacity building in the area of cancer prevention for persons with specific needs (intellectual disabilities), the CUPID project acknowledges that providing information to affected individuals in an accessible way will enable them to receive the right medical information and empower them to make choices that can dramatically affect their health and quality of life. In…
Friday 3 May 2024 at 14:30-16:00 CESThttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82256339465 Suzanne Denieffe and Margaret Denny – COST Action CA21123 CANCER- UNDERSTANDING PREVENTION IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES (CUPID) – Inequalities Network Meeting Presentation Agenda 14:30 – 14:40 Welcome to Network participants and Update on recent Network activities – Nicolò Battisti, Network Co-Chair and Mike Morrissey, Chief Executive 14:40 – 15:00 Presentation of Global cancer statistics…
Date and time Wed, 4 Oct 2023 10:00 – 13:00 IST Location 3rd Floor, King Inns House, 200 Parnell St., D01A3Y8200 Parnell Street 3rd Floor D01 A3Y8 Dublin 1 IrelandShow map About this event The Irish Cancer Prevention Network (ICPN) is hosting an in person event for health and social care professionals called ‘Cancer prevention in action: What we are…
Members from CUPID working group 2 will meet live in Nijmegen, The Netherlands to review and discuss the ongoing process of auditing and evaluation pan-european cancer screening and prevention policies, and their relation to people with intellectual disabilities. Moreover, plans and budgets for year-2 of the action will be discussed. On June 20 we had our WG2- meeting in Nijmegen,…
This summer school is organized in collaboration with CUPID, and open for CUPID-members and others to participate. The course is designed for researchers and research-oriented health professionals with specific interest in health and well-being for persons with intellectual disabilities and who want to learn more about their health needs, about intersectoral collaboration, and inclusive research. This course offers a concise…
A key challenge for #CUPID is the lack of systematic knowledge across the EU about the degree that cancer prevention strategies are responsive to the unique cognitive and healthcare needs of people with intellectual disabilities and their human right to healthcare. To improve understanding of cancer prevention with and among people with intellectual disabilities CUPID will bring together interdisciplinary stakeholders…
Creation of a sustainable network of researchers involved in intellectual disabilities, cancer prevention, epidemiology, health sciences, social sciences, education and other adjacent fields, engaged in knowledge exchange. This will be achieved using the unique COST networking tools including short term scientific missions, meetings, training schools, Experience Based co-design workshops, webinar series and thematic conference over the lifetime of the action.…
CUPID is a unique network that brings like- minded people and organisations together to develop a research agenda and a knowledge base through information exchange about a more equitable and inclusive cancer prevention strategy for people with intellectual disabilities. A key issue is that the intellectual disability population in individual countries are generally too small to address this issue nationally.…
There is poor understanding of cancer prevention among people with intellectual disabilities. CUPID will establish a research agenda and knowledge base to improve this in the European Union and beyond. Among the European intellectual disabilities population, many cancer diagnoses are symptomatic presentations following on from behavioural distress or physical changes. Cancer deaths among this population occur up to 20 years…
