Community Outreach and Engagement

社区外展和参与：摘要 俄克拉荷马州的癌症总死亡率在美国排名第四。高贫困率、贫穷率 医疗保险覆盖范围的扩大、肥胖和烟草使用以及较低的癌症筛查率都有助于 该州过高的癌症风险。此外，俄克拉荷马州的癌症健康差距显著高于 该州的美国印第安人(AI)、黑人/非裔美国人(Black/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)是俄克拉何马州唯一由NCI指定的癌症中心， 通过促进科学发现和参与 与全州集水区的患者和社区合作。SCC的社区外展和参与 (COE)核心在这项工作中处于核心地位。COE以四个相互关联的具体目标为指导：1)监测和 通过癌症监测评估俄克拉荷马集水区(OKCA)的癌症负担和差异 发病率、死亡率、存活率和风险因素；2)使整个OKCA社区双向参与 沟通以刺激癌症研究和控制工作的规划；3)沟通社区 需要SCC领导层、研究计划和临床试验办公室/方案审查和监测 促进重点关注高优先级癌症和影响OKCA的癌症问题的研究；以及4) 协作实施和传播SCC癌症控制活动和政策，以减少癌症 在整个OKCA和更远的地方。在MSPH医学博士Mark Doescher的指导下，SCC的 社区外联和参与副主任，多萝西·罗迪斯，医学博士，公共卫生硕士(基奥瓦州)，世卫组织 是SCC的人工智能癌症研究计划主任，COE在创建和 与俄克拉荷马州的AI、Black/AA、农村和其他社区保持真正的合作伙伴关系，以解决 与癌症相关的多种担忧。CoE越来越多地将其专业知识扩展到 与OKCA其他未得到充分服务的社区合作，包括西班牙裔/拉丁裔/a.COE 进行监测以确定对以下方面影响最大的优先癌症和癌症问题 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和 使癌症研究人员多样化的教育计划。未来五年的战略规划包括 在指导下，扩大社区参与的研究，重点解决整个OKCA的优先癌症问题 通过包括短期、中期和长期指标的逻辑模型，这些指标用于衡量进展和 预示着未来增长的领域。COE与客户建立长期、互利的合作伙伴关系 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 该州的健康差距。

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.