PLANNING & EVALUATION

描述(由申请人提供)：中心项目规划和评估的总体目标是提供有效和综合的流程，以确保中心履行国家癌症研究所和阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校设定的使命。这些活动涉及该中心的所有高级领导和项目负责人。中心主任和主任理事会在中心的规划和评估方面得到了外部咨询委员会和顾问的大力协助。主要活动包括：1)我们的外部咨询委员会(EAC)由12名成员组成，他们具有中心方案和组织发展所需的全国知名的专业知识。EAC每年召开一次会议，自2000年以来已经召开了四次会议；2)为了促进跨学科研究合作和项目开发，癌症中心每年举办一次全中心范围的研究务虚会，以进行计划审查和合作，并举行年度科学优先事项和战略规划务虚会，以确定中心的科学优先事项和重大项目开发。这两次年度务虚会为中心的项目规划和评估提供了至关重要的机制；3)此外，中心每年还赞助几次社区会议，以促进中心与社区的互动，并促进中心的癌症预防和控制研究工作。该中心在招募重大预防试验的研究参与者方面取得了很高的成功，这反映了我们与 最后，癌症中心有由中心高层领导和内部审查委员会进行的定期内部审查。这些审查对中心的组织、研究计划、共享设施和中心成员的持续发展也是至关重要的。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall objective of the Center's program planning and evaluation is to provide effective and integrated processes to ensure that the Center fulfills its missions set by the National Cancer Institute and by the University of Alabama at Birmingham. These activities involve all senior leaders and program leaders of the Center. The Center Director and the Director's Council receive substantial assistance in the Center's planning and evaluation from the External Advisory Committee and consultants. Major activities include: 1) Our External Advisory Committee (EAC) consists of 12 members with nationally known expertise required for the Center's programmatic and organizational development. The EAC meets annually and has met four times since 2000; 2) To stimulate interdisciplinary research collaboration and program development, the Cancer Center Holds an annual center-wide research retreat for programmatic reviews and collaboration, and an annual scientific priority and strategic planning retreat for identification of the Center's scientific priorities and for major program development. These two annual retreats provide crucial mechanisms for the Center's program planning and evaluation; 3) In addition, the Center also sponsors several community-based conferences each year to facilitate the Center's interactions with our community and to promote the Center's cancer prevention and control research efforts. The Center's high success in recruiting study participants to the major prevention trials is one reflection of our close relationship with the community; and 4) Finally, the Cancer Center has regular internal reviews conducted by the Center's senior leadership and internal review committees. These reviews are also vital to the ongoing development of the Center's organization, research programs, shared facilities, and center membership.