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，以确保中心完成由国家癌症研究所和阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校设定的任务。这些活动涉及到中心的所有高层领导和项目负责人。中心主任和主任理事会在中心的规划和评价方面得到外部咨询委员会和顾问的大量协助。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，他们具有中心计划和组织发展所需的国内知名专业知识。环境协调委员会每年举行一次会议，自2000年以来已举行了四次会议；2)为促进跨学科研究合作和项目发展，癌症中心每年举办一次全中心范围的研究务静会，以进行项目审查和合作，并举办一次年度科学优先事项和战略规划务静会，以确定中心的科学优先事项和主要项目发展。这两个年度务虚会为中心的项目规划和评估提供了重要的机制；3)此外，本中心每年还主办几次以社区为基础的会议，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。本中心在招募研究参与者参加主要预防试验方面取得的巨大成功反映了我们与医院的密切关系

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.