# Planning and Evaluation Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · 2024 · $309,463

## Abstract

PLANNING AND EVALUATION CORE – ABSTRACT 
Our Chicago Cancer Health Collaborative (ChicagoCHeC) Planning and Evaluation Core 
(PEC) is comprised of an exceptional team with complementary expertise and responsibility 
to lead the core’s monitoring and evaluation activities. PEC members include: Drs. Kristi 
Holmes and Brian Hitsman from NU-LCC; Raymond Fuller and Dr. Wamucii Njogu from 
NEIU; and Drs. Timothy Johnson and Lisa Sanchez-Johnsen from UIC. This Renewal 
application for the ChicagoCHeC PEC proposes to build on the infrastructure created, 
program progress, and lessons learned from our first U54 award and continue to improve our 
integrated and responsive foundation to support planning, monitoring and evaluation. The 
PEC will continue to monitor progress through ongoing evaluation processes, maximize 
resources, identify novel directions for the Partnership in ongoing consultation with the 
Administrative Core, and report progress to institutional leaders and the NCI on a continual 
basis. The PEC team will work closely with the Internal Advisory Committee (IAC) and the 
Program Steering Committee (PSC) and is composed of two teams: The Evaluation Action 
Team (EvAT) and the Mentoring and Project Team. The decisions made by the PEC will be 
guided by data systematically collected and organized by the EvAT while the PEC’s 
Mentoring and Project Team will monitor the provision of support and mentorship of 
ChicagoCHeC’s early career faculty, in addition to working closely with the Administrative 
Core to seed collaborative, tri-institutional cancer research projects and developmental pilots 
over the next five-year grant period. The overall specific aims of the PEC are to: (1) Conduct 
ongoing tracking and evaluation of all Partnership activities to inform planning, improve 
processes, maximize resources, and communicate impact to stakeholders over the duration 
of the ChicagoCHeC Partnership, with support of the IAC, PSC, and NCI; (2) Create and 
sustain an ongoing Incubator and Catalyst Research Grant Program, encouraging triinstitutional partnership and a focus on addressing cancer health disparities; and (3) Bolster 
investigator capacity to conduct rigorous solution-oriented cancer health disparities research 
by coordinating and monitoring career enhancement, mentoring, and professional 
development activities for early career faculty.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10919809
- **Project number:** 5U54CA202997-10
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO
- **Principal Investigator:** Caryn E. Peterson
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $309,463
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2015-09-24 → 2026-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10919809

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10919809, Planning and Evaluation Core (5U54CA202997-10). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10919809. Licensed CC0.

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