Community Engagement in Evidence-Based Cancer Control

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Community Engagement in Evidence-Based Cancer
Control

• Maria E. Fernandez, PhD
• Dan Blumenthal, MD, MPH

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Community Engagement in Evidence- Based Cancer
Control

• CPCRN Signature Project presented yesterday
• Cross center trainings and other EBA activities
• Publications and Presentations

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Training with Partners

• Range of delivery mechanisms
• Workshops
• Train the Trainer
• Webinars
• Mini-grants
• Partners include the Komen Foundation, CIS, CDC,
  NBCCEDP, National / State Comp Cancer ACS

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Community Engagement in Evidence-Based Cancer
Control

• CTSA Development of course on CBPR (Emory, MSM)
• --- great future opportunities with CTSA
• All CPCRNs but one are at a CTSA institution
  UCLA applying
• All work with their community engagement cores
• CTSAs translate research bench gt bedside gt
  curbside/countryside

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Cross Center Collaboration in Community Engagement

• R21 Sustainable strategies for increasing CIS
  use in Hispanics and African-Americans (WU UT)
• Train-the-Trainer Evidence-Based Public Health
  Training (WU UNC)
• Obesity Cancer (Card Sort to identify EB
  competencies) (WU, UCLA, UT)
• Upcoming National Assoc Chronic Disease
  Directors (Emory, TX, UCLA, UW, WU)
• One-day workshop titled Designing Chronic
  Disease Prevention Programs that Work

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Trainings for National Cancer Control Partners

• Translating Evidence-based Recommendations
• CDC National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program
  Directors meeting. May 2008. Atlanta, GA.
• CDC - NBCCEDP national webinar 1st of 2 part
  series. July 2008. Professional Development and
  Recruitment Project Directors
• NBCCEDP Part 2 - Professional Development Project
  Directors. Oct 2008 Houston, TX

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Collaborative Presentations

• SOPHE Designing Health Promotion Programs that
  Work
• CDC Cancer Conference (2) Translating
  evidence-based recommendations into community
  practice a panel discussion Colorectal
  Cancer Screening among Hispanics in the
  Colonias.
• ASPO (3) Cancer control planners views of
  evidence-based approaches (EBAs), Development
  of a Computer-Based Training and Planning Tool
  for Increasing Use of Evidence-Based Approaches
  (EBAs) for Cancer Control, R21 Creating
  culturally appropriate materials to increase
  calls to the CIS among Hispanics

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Collaborative Presentations

• Legacy Grant Webinar REACH US/SUCCEED
• Virginia S. DeHaan Lecture on Health Promotion
  and Education The environment, physical
  activity and obesity. If you build it will they
  come?
• 11th Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the
  Medically Underserved Cancer Using What
  Works Moving Evidence-Based Cancer Education
  into the Field.

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Collaborative Presentations

• Escoffery C, Carvalho M, Mistry R, Surani Z,
  Pfeiffer D, Hannon P, Fernandez M. Designing
  Chronic Disease Prevention Programs that Work.
  Academy of the National Association of Chronic
  Disease Directors (NACDD). 1.5 day training
• (5 centers Cancer Information Service)

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Collaborative Presentations

• Escoffery C, Carvalho M, Mistry R, Surani Z,
  Pfeiffer D, Fernandez M. Designing Health
  Promotion Programs that Work. Oct 2008. Poster
  Session. Annual Meeting of The Society for Public
  Health Education (SOPHE). San Diego, CA
• (4-centers Cancer Information Service)

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Collaborative Publications

• Alcaraz K, Davis K, Samways T, Bryan R, Kreuter
  MW. Increasing awareness of and interest in
  public health and cancer control careers among
  minority middle school students. Public Health
  Reports. In press
• EBA Survey (Hannon)
• EBA Inventory (Mullen)
• Development of TACTIC (Fernandez)