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Promoting Health Equity in Cancer Care: A Workshop

Completed

On October 25 and 26, 2021, the National Cancer Policy Forum and the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity will host a public workshop that will examine opportunities to improve health equity across the cancer care continuum.

Description

A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine planning committee will organize and host a 1.5-day public workshop that will examine opportunities to improve health equity across the cancer care continuum. The workshop will feature invited presentations and panel discussions on topics that may include:

  • Opportunities to improve patient access to affordable, high-quality cancer care (e.g., prevention, screening, treatment, clinical trials, palliative care, survivorship care).
  • Strategies to identify and address the intersectionality of structural racism and implicit bias in cancer care delivery.
  • The potential for quality measurement and payment mechanisms to incentivize health equity in cancer care delivery.
  • Clinical practice data collection efforts to better assess and care for patients with cancer (e.g., information on the social determinants of health, patient-reported outcome measures for symptom management).

The planning committee will develop the agenda for the workshop sessions, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate the discussions. A proceedings of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.

Contributors

Sponsors

American Association for Cancer Research

American Cancer Society

American College of Radiology

American Society of Clinical Oncology

Association of American Cancer Institutes

Association of Community Cancer Centers

Bristol Myers Squibb

Cancer Support Community

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

CEO Roundtable on Cancer

Flatiron Health

Merck

National Cancer Institute

National Patient Advocate Foundation

Novartis Oncology

Oncology Nursing Society

Pfizer Inc.

Sanofi

Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer

Staff

Erin Balogh

Lead

Sharyl Nass

Lead

Kat Anderson

Lead

Francis Amankwah

Lead

Rachel Austin

Annalee Espinosa Gonzales

Lori Brenig

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