We are excited to welcome you to our first COE Newsletter!

Our COE team’s mission is to reduce the cancer burden in our communities. This takes place in partnership with numerous community collaborators. We are proud of these partnerships and of all that we have accomplished so far. Health equity is at the heart of everything we do.

We look forward to disseminating future accomplishments and look forward to hearing from you and your organizations on how we can continue to improve the health of our communities. 

¡Saludos!    

Elena Martinez, PhD

Associate Director, Population Sciences, Disparities and Community Engagement

The National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable’s newly released Steps Guide provides evidence-based, expert-endorsed strategies to increase colorectal cancer screening rates in primary care. This 2022 edition offers a much-anticipated update to the signature NCCRT resource that has been instrumental in helping primary care practices throughout the United States achieve improvements in delivering potentially life-saving colorectal cancer screening in the communities they serve.

Congratulations to Neighborhood Healthcare and Family Health Centers of San Diego who received HRSA AxCS funds to increase equitable access to life-saving cancer screenings. This funding supports President Joe Biden’s Unity Agenda and his call to action on cancer screening and early detection as part of the Administration’s Cancer Moonshot initiative to end cancer as we know it. Both health centers will be partnering with Moores Cancer Center to increase cancer screenings.

Take a look at our Community Resources page for past webinars and resources!

Welcome to Margaux Stack-Babich, MPH and Maritza Gomez, who will be partnering with our community collaborators on cancer prevention efforts in San Diego and Imperial Counties.