Community Outreach and Engagement

社区外展和参与：摘要 俄克拉荷马州的癌症死亡率在美国排名第四。贫困率高，缺乏 健康保险覆盖率、肥胖和烟草使用以及癌症筛查率低都是导致 国家的癌症风险。此外，俄克拉荷马州的癌症健康差距是惊人的高， 该州的美国印第安人（AI），黑人/非洲裔美国人（黑人/AA），农村和其他服务不足的少数民族 人口。斯蒂芬森癌症中心（SCC）是俄克拉荷马州唯一一家NCI指定的癌症中心， 通过促进科学发现和参与， 与全州范围内的病人和社区联系SCC的社区外展和参与 (COE)核心是这一努力的核心。COE由四个相互关联的具体目标指导：1）监控和 通过癌症监测评估俄克拉荷马州集水区（OKCA）的癌症负担和差异 发病率，死亡率，生存率和风险因素; 2）在整个OKCA的双向社区参与 沟通，以促进规划癌症研究和控制工作; 3）沟通社区 需要SCC领导层、研究项目和临床试验办公室/方案审查和监查 促进重点关注影响OKCA的高度优先癌症和癌症问题的研究的系统;以及4） 合作实施和传播SCC癌症控制活动和政策，以减少癌症 在整个OKCA和超越的负担。在Mark Doescher，MD，MSPH的指导下，SCC 社区外展和参与副主任，和多萝西罗兹，医学博士，公共卫生硕士（基奥瓦），谁 作为SCC的AI癌症研究计划主任，COE在创造和 与俄克拉荷马州的人工智能，黑人/AA，农村和其他社区保持真正的伙伴关系，以解决 多种与癌症相关的问题。特遣队所属装备越来越多地运用其专门知识， 与OKCA中其他服务不足的社区合作，包括西班牙裔/拉丁裔/a。Coe 进行监测，以确定优先癌症和对健康影响最大的癌症问题， 俄克拉荷马人COE社区咨询委员会使社区成员能够向方案和 SCC及其集水区的研究优先事项。COE越来越多地将社区与培训联系起来， 使癌症研究人员多样化的教育计划。未来五年的战略计划包括 扩大社区参与的研究，重点是解决整个OKCA的优先癌症， 通过一个逻辑模型，包括用于衡量进展的短期、中期和长期指标， 未来增长的信号领域。欧洲委员会与下列各方建立长期互利的伙伴关系： 社区将继续营造一个环境，使SCC能够推进其消除癌症的愿景 国家的健康差距。

COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT: ABSTRACT Oklahoma has the fourth highest overall cancer mortality rate in the United States. High rates of poverty, lack of health insurance coverage, obesity and tobacco use, and low rates of cancer screening all contribute to the state’s excess cancer risk. Furthermore, Oklahoma’s cancer health disparities are strikingly higher for the state’s American Indian (AI), Black / African American (Black/AA), rural, and other underserved minority populations. The Stephenson Cancer Center (SCC), the only NCI-designated cancer center in Oklahoma, leads efforts to decrease the state's cancer burden through facilitating scientific discovery, and by engaging with patients and communities in the statewide catchment area. SCC's Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) Core is central in this effort. COE is guided by four interconnected Specific Aims: 1) to monitor and evaluate the Oklahoma Catchment Area (OKCA) cancer burden and disparities through surveillance of cancer incidence, mortality, survival, and risk factors; 2) to engage communities throughout the OKCA in bidirectional communication to stimulate planning of cancer research and control efforts; 3) to communicate community needs to SCC Leadership, Research Programs and the Clinical Trials Office / Protocol Review and Monitoring System to catalyze research focusing on high-priority cancers and cancer problems affecting the OKCA; and 4) to collaboratively implement and disseminate SCC cancer control activities and policies to reduce cancer burden throughout the OKCA and beyond. Under the direction of Mark Doescher, MD, MSPH, the SCC's Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement, and Dorothy Rhoades, MD, MPH (Kiowa), who is the SCC's Director of AI Cancer Research Initiatives, COE has achieved a strong record of creating and sustaining authentic partnerships with Oklahoma’s AI, Black/AA, rural, and other communities to address multiple cancer-related concerns. Increasingly, COE is applying its expertise to extend outreach to and collaboration with additional underserved communities in the OKCA, including the Hispanic/Latino/a. COE conducts surveillance to identify priority cancers and cancer problems having the heaviest impact on Oklahomans. COE community advisory boards enable community members to inform programmatic and research priorities for the SCC and its catchment area. COE increasingly links communities to training and education programs that diversify the cancer research workforce. Strategic plans for the next five years include expanding community-engaged research focused on addressing priority cancers across the OKCA, as guided by a logic model that includes short-, intermediate- and long-term metrics that are used to gauge progress and signal areas for future growth. COE’s cultivation of long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships with communities will continue to foster an environment that enables SCC to advance its vision to eliminate cancer health disparities in the state.