Community Outreach and Engagement

社区外展和参与(COE)项目摘要 社区外联和参与(COE)一直是丹·L·邓肯的一个组成部分 综合癌症中心(DLDCCC)自2007年成立以来，由外展与健康办公室 建立了差异(OOHD)。它的主要活动是确保多样化和医疗服务不足的人 DLDCCC集水区的居民受益于创新的外展、教育、筛查和 初级预防战略。OOHD的范围已经扩大，负责传播和 将循证干预付诸实践，NCI，NIH， 和德克萨斯州癌症预防和研究所(CPRIT)。DLDCCC的COE由 OOHD，它利用与学术和社区合作伙伴十多年的合作来促进癌症 在集水区提高认识和预防，特别注重医疗服务不足和 种族/少数民族人口。COE充当将研究从 研究方案和疾病工作组在集水区付诸实践。 COE领导了集水区的特征，以确定癌症负担并确定努力 解决癌症差异问题。通过扩大与ChiSt.Luke‘s的伙伴关系并继续合作 与德克萨斯儿童医院合作，DLDCCC的覆盖范围最近扩大到包括 德克萨斯州休斯敦大都会统计局(MSA)的社区，代表着不同的人口 超过700万人。在我们的集水区，我们发现了三个阴性的乳房，前列腺癌 非裔美国人、肺癌、结直肠癌、肝癌、宫颈癌、HPV和HIV相关的恶性肿瘤以及儿科癌症 作为主要的癌症负担和/或不成比例地影响我们集水区人口的癌症。肥胖 癌症筛查未充分利用被确定为危险因素。在接下来的5年中，COE将：(1) 持续监测DLDCCC集水区的癌症负担和危险因素，促进 参与研究项目，以解决集水区癌症负担和差异问题；(2) 让DLDCCC集水区居民参与癌症预防、控制、生存拓展、 教育和研究以减少集水区的癌症负担和差距；以及(3)传播 并促进循证干预措施和DLDCCC项目研究结果的整合， 本地(例如，在我们的集水区)、区域、国家和全球范围内通过外展、协作和 政策。这项工作将在我们社区咨询委员会的指导下完成 与DLDCCC项目合作。它将利用COE在开发患者- 以教育资源为中心，解决癌症差异的方法，并实施和传播 多管齐下、循证干预付诸实践。

COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT (COE) PROJECT SUMMARY Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) has been an integral component of the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center (DLDCCC) since its inception in 2007 when the Office of Outreach and Health Disparities (OOHD) was established. Its main activity is to ensure that the diverse and medically underserved populations of the DLDCCC’s catchment area benefit from innovative outreach, education, screening, and primary prevention strategies. The OOHD has grown in scope and is charged with disseminating and implementing evidence-based interventions into practice, with over $10 million in grant funding from NCI, NIH, and the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). The DLDCCC’s COE is led by the OOHD, which leverages over a decade of working with academic and community partners to promote cancer awareness and prevention in the catchment area, with particular focus on medically underserved and racial/ethnic minority populations. The COE serves as a driver for the translation of research from the Research Programs and Disease Working Groups into practice in the catchment area. The COE leads the characterization of the catchment area to define the cancer burden and identify efforts to address cancer disparities. Through expanded partnerships with CHI St. Luke’s and continued partnerships with Texas Children’s Hospital, the catchment area of the DLDCCC was recently expanded to include communities of the Houston, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), representing a diverse population of more than 7 million individuals. In our catchment area we have identified triple negative breast, prostate in African Americans, lung, colorectal, liver, cervix, HPV- and HIV-associated malignancies, and pediatric cancers as major cancer burdens and/or cancers that disproportionally affect our catchment area population. Obesity and underutilization of cancer screening were identified as risk factors. Over the next 5 years, the COE will: (1) Continuously monitor the cancer burden and risk factors in the DLDCCC catchment area and promote the engagement of research programs to address the cancer burden and disparities in the catchment area; (2) Engage the DLDCCC catchment area populations in cancer prevention, control, survivorship outreach, education, and research to reduce cancer burden and disparities in the catchment area; and (3) Disseminate and promote integration of evidence-based interventions and findings from research DLDCCC programs, locally (e.g., in our catchment area), regionally, nationally, and globally through outreach, collaboration, and policy. This work will be accomplished with guidance from our Community Advisory Board and in close collaboration with DLDCCC Programs. It will leverage the COE’s strong expertise in developing patient- centered educational resource, methods to address cancer disparities, and implementing and disseminating multi-pronged, evidence-based interventions into practice.