# Community Outreach and Engagement

> **NIH NIH P30** · DUKE UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $230,727

## Abstract

ABSTRACT – COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT 
 Since Duke Cancer Institute’s (DCI) inception in 2011, significant effort has gone into enhancing DCI 
Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) and addressing cancer health disparities. DCI uses patient data 
analytics to define its Catchment Area (CA) to the 85th percentile of its patient base, focused primarily on central 
North Carolina. DCI’s CA cancer burden was defined using a 3-pronged approach: 1) DCI senior leaders served 
with the State of North Carolina Advisory Committee on Cancer Coordination and Control (NC-ACCCC), the NC 
Cancer Prevention and Control Branch, and the NC Cancer Registry, to help conduct a county by county analysis 
of all cancers with a focus on cancers for which NC incidence and mortality rates either exceed the national 
averages, exhibit significant disparities, and/or are preventable; 2) DCI created a 20-member Community 
Advisory Board representing its local diversity and embarked on an extensive three-year community needs 
assessment campaign; and 3) DCI was one of the fifteen awardees in the first round NCI P30 supplements 
(2017) to assess the cancer risks and needs of its catchment area. DCI focuses significant effort on Community 
Outreach and Engagement (COE) including the 2012 launch of the DCI Office of Health Equity (OHE). Through 
these coordinated efforts DCI has identified prostate, lung, high-risk breast cancer, and GI cancers including 
colorectal and stomach, which are either major CA cancer burdens and/or disproportionately affect minority 
populations, as “priority” target cancers in the next grant period. Tobacco, obesity and infectious agents were 
identified as major risk factors and cancer disparities identified as a major crosscutting challenge. This analysis 
guides our community engagement, community-based interventions, cancer care services, cancer health policy 
advocacy and research. DCI members conduct ground-breaking, multi-level research on these cancers and risk 
factors including research directed at understanding the social, structural and biological drivers of cancer 
disparities, as well as developing and implementing interventions. DCI COE is overseen by DCI’s Deputy 
Director, Steven Patierno, a nationally recognized expert in cancer disparities research and intervention. He 
works closely with Nadine Barrett, DCI Associate Director for COE, who also holds a joint DCI-CTSA sponsored 
position of Director of “Alliances for Community Engagement and Stakeholder Strategy” (ACESS). 
 The Specific Aims for the next five years of DCI COE are: 1) to monitor the cancer-relevant needs of our 
Catchment Area to inform research relevant to our catchment area’s needs; 2) to perform research relevant to 
our catchment area’s needs and enhance the impact of our Cancer Center’s research to our Catchment Area; 
3) to engage our Catchment Area communities in evidence-based strategies for cancer prevention, screening, 
treatment and outcomes resear...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10843085
- **Project number:** 5P30CA014236-50
- **Recipient organization:** DUKE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** STEVEN R PATIERNO
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $230,727
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-01-01 → 2025-04-17

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10843085

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10843085, Community Outreach and Engagement (5P30CA014236-50). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10843085. Licensed CC0.

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