# PLANNING AND EVALUATION (Core-001)

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · 2021 · $179,850

## Abstract

The USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center utilizes a well-established system for Planning and Evaluation 
that engages institutional leaders, Senior Leaders, Program Leaders, Shared Resources Directors, Cancer 
Center members and staff, advisors, and patient advocates. This effort includes well-tested and integrated 
mechanisms to monitor, evaluate, and adjust the Center’s Research Program activities, Shared Resource 
services, funding allocations, and strategic directions to ensure alignment with the Center’s vision and goals. 
Planning and Evaluation ensures that future directions are achievable and that resources and investments are 
targeted effectively, while providing the ability to respond to new opportunities and changes in the field. Our 
Planning and Evaluation process also is highly integrated with institutional planning and resource allocation 
activities to assure alignment and ability to capitalize on institutional investments. 
USC Norris employs a variety of Planning and Evaluation activities, supported in part by the CCSG funds. 
These include: External Advisory Board and ad hoc reviewers; Center-wide and Research Program retreats; 
Leadership Retreats; formal strategic planning; bi-weekly Executive Committee and Director’s Cabinet 
meetings; and monthly Leadership Council meetings. 
Under Dr. Gruber, strategic and programmatic planning and evaluation processes have been transformed and 
have become embedded in our culture. We have instituted a multi-year strategic plan that guides leadership 
decisions and investments. Leadership has been increasingly effective in defining and realizing the Cancer 
Center’s vision, using planning and evaluation mechanisms to guide decisions, assess progress, and make 
changes to assure success. In addition, the Executive Committee now conducts intensive annual program and 
core reviews, through which they carefully assess progress against milestones, future relevance, leadership 
and future aims.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10303182
- **Project number:** 3P30CA014089-45S7
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
- **Principal Investigator:** CARYN LERMAN
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $179,850
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 1996-12-01 → 2021-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10303182

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10303182, PLANNING AND EVALUATION (Core-001) (3P30CA014089-45S7). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10303182. Licensed CC0.

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