# Community Outreach and Engagement

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · 2024 · $398,169

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT - COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT COMPONENT
(COE)
The mission of University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCCCC) Community
Outreach and Engagement Component (COE) is to promote equitable cancer care and inform, facilitate, and
disseminate relevant research along the cancer continuum in our diverse catchment area in line with
UCCCC’s Strategic Plan, through direct engagement of its community of stakeholders and data-driven
programs. The COE team achieves this mission through activities that: (1) cultivate and maintain strong
bidirectional research partnerships between community stakeholders, and UCCCC programs and members;
(2) advocate for local and state cancer policy initiatives; and (3) engage community and academic partners
in innovative education and care delivery programs. The UCCCC catchment area encompasses five
contiguous counties: Cook County, IL (with the densely populated city of Chicago); DuPage County, IL; Will
County, IL; Lake County, IL; and Lake County, IN (in northwest Indiana). These 5 urban counties represent
77% of new patients seen at UCCCC and 73% of all accruals to treatment trials, with a population of 8 million
(48% non-Hispanic white, 23% Hispanic, 19% Black, 8% Asian). This catchment area was defined to best
support specific local geographic areas (communities, neighborhoods, and zip codes) which have high need
due to elevated cancer incidence and mortality. Specific racial and ethnic groups continue to have
disproportionate burdens of cancer incidence and mortality due to social deprivation (persistent
poverty/adverse social determinants of health), risk behaviors, environmental exposures, and known
barriers to cancer prevention, control, treatment, and survivorship. COE uses a data-driven process
engaging community and UCCCC leaders to establish priorities in cancer prevention and treatment. Our
priorities include: (1) reducing breast, colorectal, prostate, lung, and viral-mediated (cervix, oropharyngeal,
liver) cancers; (2) addressing modifiable risks (e.g., tobacco use, obesity, cancer screening, environmental
factors such as air quality and chemical exposures); and (3) addressing infrastructure needs (navigation and
enrollment in clinical trials). These areas align with the UCCCC Strategic Plan, and COE leads community
and internal UCCCC dissemination of information regarding priorities. COE partners with UCCCC basic,
clinical, translational, and population sciences researchers and with community members through formalized
programs to facilitate research that is responsive to these priority areas. Bidirectionality is a key guiding
principle for the COE team and the UCCCC Strategic Plan and is integrated when planning activities. Over
the next funding period, COE will continue to lead, evaluate, and adapt initiatives to best support community-
driven priorities through sustained bidirectional partnerships, improving infrastructure for data analysis and
visualization and ...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10845098
- **Project number:** 2P30CA014599-48
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
- **Principal Investigator:** Karen E Kim
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $398,169
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 1997-09-01 → 2029-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10845098

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10845098, Community Outreach and Engagement (2P30CA014599-48). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10845098. Licensed CC0.

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