# Community Outreach and Engagement

> **NIH NIH P30** · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · 2021 · $78,478

## Abstract

COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT (COE) PROJECT SUMMARY
Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) has been an integral component of the Dan L Duncan
Comprehensive Cancer Center (DLDCCC) since its inception in 2007 when the Office of Outreach and Health
Disparities (OOHD) was established. Its main activity is to ensure that the diverse and medically underserved
populations of the DLDCCC’s catchment area benefit from innovative outreach, education, screening, and
primary prevention strategies. The OOHD has grown in scope and is charged with disseminating and
implementing evidence-based interventions into practice, with over $10 million in grant funding from NCI, NIH,
and the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). The DLDCCC’s COE is led by the
OOHD, which leverages over a decade of working with academic and community partners to promote cancer
awareness and prevention in the catchment area, with particular focus on medically underserved and
racial/ethnic minority populations. The COE serves as a driver for the translation of research from the
Research Programs and Disease Working Groups into practice in the catchment area.
The COE leads the characterization of the catchment area to define the cancer burden and identify efforts to
address cancer disparities. Through expanded partnerships with CHI St. Luke’s and continued partnerships
with Texas Children’s Hospital, the catchment area of the DLDCCC was recently expanded to include
communities of the Houston, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), representing a diverse population of
more than 7 million individuals. In our catchment area we have identified triple negative breast, prostate in
African Americans, lung, colorectal, liver, cervix, HPV- and HIV-associated malignancies, and pediatric cancers
as major cancer burdens and/or cancers that disproportionally affect our catchment area population. Obesity
and underutilization of cancer screening were identified as risk factors. Over the next 5 years, the COE will: (1)
Continuously monitor the cancer burden and risk factors in the DLDCCC catchment area and promote the
engagement of research programs to address the cancer burden and disparities in the catchment area; (2)
Engage the DLDCCC catchment area populations in cancer prevention, control, survivorship outreach,
education, and research to reduce cancer burden and disparities in the catchment area; and (3) Disseminate
and promote integration of evidence-based interventions and findings from research DLDCCC programs,
locally (e.g., in our catchment area), regionally, nationally, and globally through outreach, collaboration, and
policy. This work will be accomplished with guidance from our Community Advisory Board and in close
collaboration with DLDCCC Programs. It will leverage the COE’s strong expertise in developing patient-
centered educational resource, methods to address cancer disparities, and implementing and disseminating
multi-pronged, evidence-based interventions in...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10239136
- **Project number:** 5P30CA125123-15
- **Recipient organization:** BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** MARIA L JIBAJA-WEISS
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $78,478
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2007-07-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10239136

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10239136, Community Outreach and Engagement (5P30CA125123-15). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10239136. Licensed CC0.

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