Abstract
Background: The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Cancer Center Support Grants (CCSGs) encourages Cancer Centers to address health disparities and reduce the cancer burden in their Catchment Area (CA) through an organized Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) structure. COE activities focus on engaging communities to address cancer needs through bidirectional partnership, facilitation of research that meets community needs, and the implementation of evidence-based practices. Methods: Following a 2018 “satisfactory to good” rating for COE, the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center (MCCCCC) developed a transition team to specifically address the critique and create a transformative plan for engaging communities to address cancer burden in the CA. An impact model was developed to illustrate the components of the CCSG and connect those components to short- and long-term COE outcomes. A logic model was developed to track and monitor activities for continuous process improvement for all COE activities. Results: The impact and logic model serve as a roadmap to monitor progress towards short- and long-term COE goals of the MCCCC. The COE operational strategies draw upon bidirectional partnership, evidence-based practices, and research facilitation to respond to the CCSG critique. Conclusion: These strategies demonstrate successful practices in addressing cancer burden, promoting health equity and eliminating cancer disparities in the MCCCC CA.
Citation Format: Manisha Salinas, Monica Albertie, Doug Murrell, Folakemi Odedina. Operational strategies for achieving NCI comprehensive cancer center community outreach and engagement objectives: Impact and logic models [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 16th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; 2023 Sep 29-Oct 2;Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2023;32(12 Suppl):Abstract nr A117.
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