3/3: The Chicago Collaborative to Promote and Advance Cancer Health Equity

摘要：尽管有5个主要的学术研究密集型医疗中心，2个nci指定的综合癌症中心和数百万美元的癌症研究资金，芝加哥一直处于全国癌症差距最严重的前四分之一。解决癌症差异和促进癌症健康公平的一个未被充分利用的方法是，在为代表性不足的人群提供研究密集型、nci指定的癌症中心的机构之间建立牢固的桥梁。我们的合作旨在通过直接在两个联邦指定的西班牙裔服务机构，芝加哥伊利诺伊大学（UIC）和东北伊利诺伊大学（NEIU）以及nci指定的综合癌症中心，西北大学罗伯特H. Lurie综合癌症中心（NU RHLCCC）之间建立和连接桥梁，改变我们如何消除芝加哥癌症健康差距的游戏规则。该提案描述了中西部地区第一个NCI U54 CPACHE建立芝加哥促进和推进癌症健康公平合作组织（CCPACHE），这是一个癌症研究、教育、培训和推广的全面合作伙伴关系。这一横跨芝加哥的合作伙伴关系结合了三家杰出机构的特点，它们具有与城市共享环境互动的独特能力，并利用了包括NCI P20在内的已建立的伙伴关系基础设施。UIC和NEIU在本科和专业学位阶段招收和毕业少数民族和非传统学生方面有着出色的记录，并与芝加哥社区建立了长期的合作伙伴关系。NUI RHLCCC与东北大学和伊利诺伊大学的优势互补，开展广泛的基础，临床和人口科学研究，并具有招聘和培训癌症研究学生和教师的专业知识和经验。在四个核心的培育中心，一个试点资助计划，两个初步提出的试点和一个完整的研究项目，我们寻求实现以下五个目标：(1)在追求癌症健康公平的过程中，制定和维持UIC， NEIU和NU RHLCCC之间的转型联盟；(2)建立一个正在进行的研究试点资助计划，以孵化和催化癌症差异的多学科和跨学科研究项目；(3)通过调动伙伴关系资源，以响应的方式与不同的社区合作，确定地方一级的癌症差异，并确定可能在未来研究中传播和测试的更广泛的解决方案，将该伙伴关系产生的研究、教育和培训与芝加哥各地的社区联系起来；(4)通过增加教育和培训机会，支持不同的学生进入健康和STEM相关的管道，以获得癌症研究的研究生学位和职业；（五）提供技能培训、教育、

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) Overall Abstract: Despite 5 major academic research-intensive medical centers, 2 NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers and millions of dollars in cancer research funding, Chicago consistently ranks in the upper quartile amongst the nation's worst cancer disparities. An under-tapped approach for addressing cancer disparities and advancing cancer health equity is the forging of strong bridges among the institutions that serve underrepresented populations with research intensive, NCI-designated cancer centers. Our collaborative aims to change the game in how we work toward eliminating Chicago's cancer health disparities by directly building and connecting bridges across 2 federally designated Hispanic Serving Institutions, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU), and an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center, the Northwestern University Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center (NU RHLCCC). This proposal describes the Midwest's first NCI U54 CPACHE to establish the Chicago Collaborative to Promote and Advance Cancer Health Equity (CCPACHE), a comprehensive partnership for cancer research, education and training, and outreach. This collaborative partnership across Chicago combines the attributes of three exceptional institutions with unique capacity to interact with their urban-shared context and leverages established partnership infrastructure, including an NCI P20. UIC and NEIU hold outstanding track records of enrolling and graduating minority and nontraditional students across undergraduate through professional degree levels and have built longstanding partnerships with Chicago communities. Complementing the strengths of NEIU and UIC, NUI RHLCCC conducts a broad range of basic, clinical, and population science research and has expertise and experience to recruit and train students and faculty in cancer research. Within the nurturing hub of four Cores, a pilot funding program, two initial proposed pilots, and one full research project, we seek to accomplish the following five aims: (1) to codify and sustain a transformational alliance between UIC, NEIU, and NU RHLCCC in the pursuit of cancer health equity; (2) to establish an ongoing research pilot funding program that incubates and catalyzes multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary research programs in cancer disparities; (3) to connect the research, education and training generated by this partnership to communities across Chicago by mobilizing Partnership resources to collaborate with diverse communities in responsive ways, by defining cancer disparities at the local level, and by identifying broader solutions that may be disseminated and tested in future research; (4) through enhanced education and training opportunities, to support a diverse pipeline of students entering the health and STEM related pipelines towards graduate degrees and careers in cancer research; and (5) to facilitate opportunities for skills training, education, and mentorship among UIC, NEIU and NU RHLCCC community members to develop scientists who will produce more competitive grant applications and succeed in securing extramural funding.