Faculty Sponsor: Melissa Clark

Scientific literature suggests that good patient-provider communication can be a facilitator of cancer screening while bad communication can serve as a barrier. However, this area is understudied along the racial/ethnic lines of patients and providers. Given the widespread breast cancer mortality gap between Black and White women, patient-provider communication serves as a critical sector of research to help address this disparity. Mya interviewed a diverse sample of primary care providers as well as Black women residing in Birmingham in order to see if physicians’ perceptions of breast cancer screening communication aligned with their patients perceptions of care.