Dr. Lounsbury's research interests include: Inter-organizational partnership development; health care system dynamics; community health policy analysis; cancer survivorship; breast cancer education and care; smoking cessation. He is a community psychologist and his research seeks to understand how to optimize community-based systems of care such that health disparities among the medically underserved can be minimized, if not eliminated. He uses an ecological framework to study how individuals' health and well-being can be enhanced through community involvement and organization. Dr. Lounsbury's current, major projects at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center include the ACCESS Project (Massie and Rapkin, Co-PIs; NCI), which studies how to initiate and sustain academic-community partnerships for breast health education and cancer screening; the Family Access to Care Study (Rapkin, PI; NIMH), which promotes dissemination of community-based HIV-related family mental health programs; the Community-based Cancer Support Services Evaluation Project (Lounsbury, PI; NYSDOH/Cancer Services Program), a study of 27 state-funded pilot programs for individuals and families affected by cancer; the Cancer Survivorship Service Capacities Study (Lounsbury, PI; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Survivorship Initiative), which uses network analysis and geomapping to describe and assess existing networks of services available to cancer survivors in New York City; and the Queens Quits! Cessation Center Evaluation Project (Kemeny and Ostroff, Co-PIs; NYSDOH/Tobacco Cessation Initiative), which assesses the effectiveness of a program designed to foster brief tobacco cessation counseling by health care providers.