Overview
Community outreach and engagement (COE) has been a fundamental activity of National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Cancer Centers since the initiation of the Cancer Centers program in 1971. Historically, COE has been commonly considered an extension of Centers’ Population Science/Cancer Prevention and Control Research Programs. However, since the 2016 and 2019 reissuances of the P30 Cancer Centers Support Grant (CCSG) guidelines, COE is expected to now span all aspects of Centers’ programs, including basic, clinical, translational, and population research. Cancer Centers – working with community stakeholders – should identify community needs, communicate those needs across the Center’s leadership and research programs (i.e., “in-reach”), and catalyze activities of special relevance to the Cancer Center’s self-defined geographic catchment area population. Cancer Centers are encouraged to generate examples of research projects where outreach to and engagement of communities informed and resulted in high-impact science. In addition, Centers are expected to work with communities to disseminate and implement evidence-based interventions (EBIs) and guidelines, public education, and public health policy recommendations. This bidirectional relationship between communities and Cancer Centers promotes an understanding of cancer that is more holistic (bench-to-bedside-to-community), transdisciplinary, encompassing of different views and experiences, culturally sensitive, and reflective of mutual goals.
Funded Research
Funded Sites
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Legend
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2020 |
| Cancer Center | Address | COE Activities |
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| FY20 | ||
| Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University | 2103 Cornell Road Cleveland, OH 44106 |  |
| Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center | One Baylor Place Houston, TX 77030 | |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Cancer Center | 450 Brookline Ave., Boston, MA 02215 | |
| Duke Cancer Institute | 2424 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27710 | |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109 | |
| Huntsman Cancer Institute | 2000 Circle of Hope, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 | |
| Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center | 8-684 Factor Building, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095 | |
| Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at New York University Langone Health | 550 First Ave., New York, NY 10016 | |
| Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University | 303 E. Superior St. Chicago, IL 60611 | |
| Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University | 233 South 10th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107 | |
| Stephenson Cancer Center at The University of Oklahoma | 800 NE 10th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104 | |
| The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Unit 91, Houston, TX 77030 | |
| University of Alabama, Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center | 1824 Sixth Ave. South, Birmingham, AL 35294 | |
| University of California-Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center | 4501 X St., Sacramento, CA 95817 | |
| University of Arizona Cancer Center | 1515 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson, AZ 85724 | |
| University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center | 5841 S. Maryland Ave., Chicago, IL 60637 | |
| University of Colorado Cancer Center | 13001 E. 17th Place, Aurora, CO 80045 | |
| University of Kansas Cancer Center | 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66160 | |
| University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center | 1111 Highland Ave., Madison, WI 53705 | |
| Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center | 691 Preston Research Building, Nashville, TN 37232 | |
| Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center | 401 College St., Richmond, VA 23298 | |
| Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Comprehensive Cancer Center | 1 Medical Center Blvd., Winston-Salem, NC 27157 | |
| Yale Cancer Center | 333 Cedar St. New Haven, CT 06520 | |