Using American Sign Language–Fluent Community Health Navigators to Advance Cancer Screening Adherence through Videoconferencing With Deaf, Deafblind, and Hard of Hearing Adults: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Poorna Kushalnagar   ¹ , PhD ;   Sowmya R Rao   ² , PhD ;   Erika Bergeron   ¹ , MPH ;   Rupa Valdez   ³ , PhD ;   Regina Wang   ⁴ , MD ;   Raja S Kushalnagar   ⁵ , LLM, JD, PhD ;   Georgia R Sadler   ⁶ , BSN, MBA, PhD

¹ Center of Deaf Health Excellence, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, United States

² School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States

³ Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States

⁴ UC San Diego Health System, La Jolla, CA, United States

⁵ School of Science, Technology, Accessibility, Mathematics, and Public Health, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, United States

⁶ Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States