# COE

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · 2024 · $280,980

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY: COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT (COE)
Guided by its Strategic Plan, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center (Sylvester) ensures that all its activities
are informed by its defined catchment area (CA), a four-county region (Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe, and
Palm Beach) commonly known as South Florida (SoFL). This area is home to more than 6.2 million people of
diverse ages, ancestry, race/ethnicity, cultural backgrounds, and sexual identities, likely representing the future
demographics of metropolitan areas throughout the US. During the current reporting period (6/1/2018-
5/31/2023), Sylvester has invested significantly in expanding the infrastructure of its Office of Outreach and
Engagement (SOOE), organizing it into three distinct components—outreach, data analytics, and research
support. This structure enhances SOOE’s capacity to facilitate bi-directional engagement between Center
members and diverse community stakeholders, including those who comprise the Center’s Community
Advisory Committee (CAC) (Aim 1). SOOE’s outreach and engagement team expanded its reach by
purchasing two additional Game Changer Vehicles (GCVs), facilitating access to culturally tailored cancer
education, screening, and clinical research participation opportunities beyond Miami-Dade into Broward,
Monroe, and Palm Beach Counties (Aim 2). To maximize these outreach efforts, the SOOE’s data analytics
team has expanded the breadth of SCAN360, the Center’s data visualization platform that empirically identifies
the distribution of cancer risk and outcomes throughout the CA by incorporating ten new secondary datasets
on multilevel cancer risk factors (Aim 3). SOOE also established a Research Support team to match faculty
and trainees with interested community partners to maximize bi-directionality across Sylvester’s research
portfolio. Such efforts are enhanced by the Center’s COE Advocates (12) and Clinical Trial Champions (17),
who participate in Sylvester’s four Research Programs or Site Disease Groups/Clinical Research Teams,
respectively, and ensure that CA needs are understood by all members and are a focus of research from
bench to bedside or community, and back (Aim 4). As a result of all such efforts, two-thirds of Sylvester’s
funded research portfolio can be characterized as CA-relevant using an algorithm developed by SOOE in
collaboration with the Center’s research leadership. SOOE also works closely with the Center’s Office of
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Office of Education and Training, and Clinical Research Services to maximize
shared goals, including growing a diverse research workforce with the ability to shape statewide cancer health
policy, support global oncology initiatives, and advance Sylvester’s and the NCI’s commitment to health equity
in SoFL and beyond (Aim 5).

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10933321
- **Project number:** 2P30CA240139-06
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** ERIN N KOBETZ
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $280,980
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 2019-07-10 → 2029-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10933321

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10933321, COE (2P30CA240139-06). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10933321. Licensed CC0.

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