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…
WONCA Europe is a conference organized by the is among the World Organization of Family Doctors, and an important conference for care providers and researchers in primary care. Primary care has plays a key role in cancer screening and prevention. CUPID will be represented by Amina Banda (WG2), who will present about the specific characteristics and challenges of people with…
Post-doc Research Fellowship Topic “Improving Cancer Prevention and Care for People with Disabilities” Link: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/101404 Job Information: Organisation/Company – Klaipeda University Research Field – Medical sciences » Health sciences Researcher Profile – Recognised Researcher (R2) Country – Lithuania Application Deadline – 5 Jun 2023 – 17:00 (Europe/Vilnius) Type of Contract – Temporary Job Status – Full-time Hours Per Week –…
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…
