1/3: The Chicago Collaborative to Promote and Advance Cancer Health Equity

 总体摘要：尽管有5个主要的学术研究密集型医疗中心，2个国家癌症研究中心指定的综合癌症中心和数百万美元的癌症研究资金，芝加哥始终在全国最严重的癌症差距中排名上四分之一。解决癌症差异和促进癌症健康公平的一种未得到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指定癌症中心的机构之间建立牢固的桥梁。我们的合作旨在改变我们如何努力消除芝加哥的癌症健康差异的游戏，通过直接建立和连接两个联邦指定的西班牙裔服务机构，伊利诺伊大学芝加哥（UIC）和东北伊利诺伊大学（NEIU），以及一个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）。 该提案描述了中西部第一个NCI U 54 CPACHE，以建立芝加哥促进和推进癌症健康公平合作组织（CCPACHE），这是一个全面的癌症研究、教育和培训以及外展合作伙伴关系。这种跨芝加哥的合作伙伴关系结合了三个特殊机构的属性，这些机构具有与其城市共享环境互动的独特能力，并利用了包括NCI P20在内的现有合作伙伴关系基础设施。UIC和NEIU在本科和专业学位水平上招收和毕业少数民族和非传统学生方面保持着出色的记录，并与芝加哥社区建立了长期的合作伙伴关系。补充NEIU和UIC的优势，NUI RHLCCC进行了广泛的基础，临床和人口科学研究，并拥有专业知识和经验，招募和培训学生和教师在癌症研究。 在四个核心的培育中心，一个试点资助计划，两个初步拟议的试点，和一个完整的研究项目，我们寻求实现以下五个目标：（1）编纂和维持UIC，NEIU和NU RHLCCC之间的转型联盟，追求癌症健康公平;（2）建立一个正在进行的研究试点资助计划，孵化和催化癌症差异的多学科和跨学科研究计划;（3）通过调动伙伴关系资源以响应方式与不同社区合作，通过确定地方一级的癌症差异，并通过确定可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、教育和培训与整个芝加哥的社区联系起来;（4）通过加强教育和培训机会，支持学生进入健康和STEM相关管道的多样化管道，以获得研究生学位和癌症研究职业;以及（5）促进技能培训、教育 和UIC，NEIU和NU RHLCCC社区成员之间的指导，以培养科学家谁将产生更有竞争力的赠款申请，并成功地获得校外资金。

 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.