Community Outreach and Engagement

摘要-社区外展和参与 Lurie癌症中心（LCC）的核心使命是减少所有人群的癌症负担， 特别关注和强调直接集水区。LCC定义其服务区（LCC-CA） 位于伊利诺斯州东北部的九个县构成了大都会芝加哥地区。这 是一个860万人口的密集地区，占伊利诺斯州人口的三分之二以上， 约90%的LCC患者来自。 LCC与州机构、社区和当地合作伙伴密切合作，确定健康挑战， 癌症治疗的障碍，解决全国最高的癌症差异，并强调 针对在以下国家中发病率和/或死亡率较高的癌症的基础、人口、临床和转化研究： LCC-CA。LCC采用以社区为中心的方法开展参与和外联活动， 整个流域的主要利益相关者，并促进和支持广泛的研究组合， 由我们集水区癌症负担的关键需求和具体问题驱动。这项研究推动了科学 从基础科学到临床试验， 实施和社区参与的科学，旨在尽量减少癌症的发病率，死亡率和 差距。与此同时，LCC让地方、州和国家决策者参与宣传和政策制定工作， 开发、修改和实施。这种全面的LCC-CA方法直接解决了 癌症健康不平等已经存在于我们的集水区人口几十年，并已导致 多年来，特别是在当前的供资期内，取得了重大进展。展望未来，LCC将 继续寻求支持服务不足社区的声音，提供量身定制的癌症教育， 外展，增加获得一贯高质量的癌症护理的机会，并提出假设， 研究方法的目标人群面临着最高的癌症负担在我们的集水区。

ABSTRACT-COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT A core mission of the Lurie Cancer Center (LCC) is to reduce the burden of cancer across all populations, with special focus and emphasis on the immediate catchment area. The LCC defines its catchment area (LCC-CA) as the nine (9) counties located in northeastern Illinois (IL) that constitute the metropolitan Chicago area. This is a dense area of 8.6 million people, accounting for more than two-thirds of the Illinois population, and where ~90% of the LCC patient population hails from. The LCC works closely with state agencies, communities and local partners to define health challenges and barriers to cancer care, address cancer disparities that are among the highest in the nation and emphasize basic, population, clinical and translational research for cancers that exhibit higher incidence and/or mortality in the LCC-CA. The LCC employs a community-focused approach to engagement and outreach activities with key stakeholders across the catchment area and catalyzes and supports a broad portfolio of research that is driven by key needs and issues specific to our catchment area’s cancer burden. This research drives scientific discoveries across the translational research spectrum from basic science to clinical trials, up to implementation and community-engaged science, aiming to minimize cancer incidence, mortality and disparities. In parallel, the LCC engages local, state and national policy makers in advocacy and policy development, modification and implementation. This comprehensive LCC-CA approach directly addresses the cancer health inequities that have existed in populations in our catchment area for decades and has resulted in significant strides over the years, and especially within the current funding period. Going forward, the LCC will continue to seek to champion the voices of underserved communities, provide tailored cancer education and outreach, increase access to cancer care that is consistently high quality, and develop hypotheses and research approaches that target populations facing the highest cancer burden in our catchment.