On October 25 and 26, 2021, the National Cancer Policy Forum and the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity hosted a public workshop that examined opportunities to improve health equity across the cancer care continuum. The workshop featured invited presentations and panel discussions on topics that included:
- Opportunities to improve patient access to affordable, high-quality cancer 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
Speakers
Rebekah Angove, Patient Advocate Foundation
Carlos L. Arteaga, Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center
Zinzi Bailey, University of Miami
Monica L. Baskin, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Heather Bittner Fagan, Delaware Cancer Consortium
Robert T. Croyle, National Cancer Institute
Katie Cueva, University of Alaska Anchorage
Stacie B. Dusetzina, Vanderbilt University
Mark Doescher, The University of Oklahoma
Kemi M. Doll, University of Washington
Neha Goel, University of Miami
Laura Gottlieb, Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network (SIREN); University of California, San Francisco
Dora L. Hughes, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
Chanita Hughes-Halbert, University of Southern California
Ingrid Lizarraga, University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
Karen E. Knudsen, American Cancer Society; Former Director, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
Patrick McCarter, Greensboro Health Disparities Collaborative
Terrence “TC” Muhammad, Greensboro Health Disparities Collaborative
Alma McCormick, Messengers For Health
LaShawn McIver, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health
Ruben Mesa, Mays Cancer Center
Adrienne Moore, Endometrial Cancer Advocacy Network for African-Americans
Ernest Moy, Veterans Health Administration
Timothy Mullett, Commission on Cancer
Debra Joy Pérez, U.S. Pharmacopeia
Eliseo Pérez-Stable, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Lisa Richardson, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Reginald Tucker-Seeley, Zero- The End of Prostrate Cancer
Reed V. Tuckson, Black Coalition Against COVID
Cornelia (Neli) Ulrich, Huntsman Cancer Institute
Jennifer Wenzel, Johns Hopkins University
Robert A. Winn, Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center
Planning Commitee
Gwen Darien, National Patient Advocate Foundation (Co-chair)
Reginald Tucker-Seeley, Zero- The End of Prostrate Cancer (Co-chair)
Nicole F. Dowling, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Chanita Hughes-Halbert, University of Southern California
Randy A. Jones, University of Virginia Emily Couric Cancer Center
Christopher Lathan, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
Cleo A. Samuel-Ryals, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lawrence N. Shulman, University of Pennsylvania Abramson Cancer Center
Shobha Srinivasan, National Cancer Institute
Robert A. Winn, Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center
Robin Yabroff, American Cancer Society