Michigan HealthLink

Detroit HealthLink is a region-wide coalition to address cancer-related needs in metropolitan Detroit. Funded in 2016 by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Detroit HealthLInk brings together community members, community-based organizations, and cancer researchers to develop research ideas as well as educational and service-based programs. If community members and researchers work together, targeted research and programming can be developed to improve a wide range of cancer outcomes in our area.

Cancer Action Councils: The heart of HealthLink

At the heart of Detroit HealthLink are the Cancer Action Councils (CACs): groups of community members and leaders who use their local knowledge to improve the lives of cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers in their communities.

Detroit HealthLink currently has 8 active Cancer Action Councils (CACs):

Voices of Detroit Initiative (VODI)/Conner Creek [Detroit, Wayne County]
Karmanos Cancer Institute (KCI) [Detroit, Wayne County]
Western Wayne [Inkster, Wayne County]
ACCESS-Arab Americans [Dearborn, Wayne County]
LGBT Detroit-Sexual & Gender Minorities [Detroit, Wayne County]
American Cancer Society [Southfield, Oakland County]
The Lake House & Macomb County Health Department [Mt. Clemens, Macomb County]
Ebenezer Ministries [Burton, Genesee County]

You can apply online for all CACs here.

For more information call Knoll Larkin at 313-576-9691 or email at larkink@karmanos.org.