Community Outreach & Engagement

Community Outreach and Engagement is a long-standing part of the UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center, with almost two decades of commitment to the community and ensuring access to effective cancer control strategies to improve the lives of residents and cancer patients throughout our catchment area regardless of distance, insurance, or poverty status.

By supporting community-academic partnerships, we are able to increase the capacity of research in our communities that is responsive to the pressing health concerns of community members in our catchment area and disseminate culturally relevant cancer control education, screening and survivorship programs and services across Virginia and West Virginia.

Our mission is to reduce the cancer burden in the community by fostering strategic and collaborative partnerships that promote health equity for all. We achieve this through evidence-based education and interventions, supporting advocacy efforts, building capacity, and providing inclusive research opportunities that address the unique needs of communities.

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2021 COE Impact Report

 

2021 ANNUAL REPORT

Our Annual Report provides an overview of COE’s three primary aims that guide our efforts and highlights some of our achievements throughout 2021. Throughout the report, you will find highlights on several of our partners and our community collaborations.

We thank all of our partners for their continued support in our efforts to contribute to reducing the cancer burden in and around Virginia. For questions concerning the Annual Report, contact Lindsay Hauser, Director, Office of Community Outreach & Engagement.

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Who We Serve

We address the cancer burden across Virginia, West Virginia, and beyond by working with communities to identify and address local needs and disseminate effective cancer control and prevention strategies.

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Who We Are

We live and work in communities across the UVA catchment area, developing trusted relationships and networks that result in understanding the regional needs of each community.

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What We Do

We support community-academic partnerships, facilitate community input for investigators, and increase the capacity of research in our communities that are responsive to the pressing health concerns of community members in our catchment area.

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Our Partners

Community partnerships have been an important part of our history. These partnerships advise and assist our priorities as well as help identify, address, and support local needs.

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Our Programs

We have provided the community with a broad range of evidence-based cancer education, service programs, and activities serving residents of the Commonwealth and beyond for over 20 years.

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Our Research

Our team works closely with researchers across the University of Virginia and community partners to facilitate community-engaged research to address the cancer burden of underserved communities across Virginia.

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UVA Cancer Center event connecting researchers with those they’re trying to help

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - UVA Cancer Center is bringing researchers and community members together to talk about cancer disparities. A symposium was held at the Graduate Hotel Thursday, November 16.…

UVA Cancer Center Seeks Innovative Ideas to Improve Care, Reduce Health Disparities

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Aug. 3, 2023 – To reduce cancer’s impact and enhance health equity, University of Virginia Cancer Center will award as many as five grants of up to $10,000…

Hope at Work: How Claudette Grant Cultivates Healthy Communities

This is the latest installment in our Connect article series “Hope at Work” — showcasing inspiring stories about how our team members contribute to UVA Health’s 10-year Strategic Plan: “One Future Together…

A Successful Skin Cancer Screening Event — Plus, Reminders to Keep You Safe This Summer

An important community service event was recently held for Skin Cancer Awareness Month. On Saturday, May 13, more than 260 patients attended the free skin cancer screening event hosted by…

Where there’s smoke … UVA Wise, Coeburn Middle School students continue FamHealth anti-tobacco use project

WISE — Year two of a project linking UVA Wise and Coeburn Middle School students in a fight against tobacco use came to center court Tuesday. Cody Sanders, associate professor…

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Cervical Cancer Screening Landscape Webinar

The Cancer Screening Landscape webinar series is a 6 webinar series offered in a live webinar format scheduled every other month on the second Wednesday of the month from 12-1pm. …
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Skin Cancer Screening Landscape Webinar

The Cancer Screening Landscape webinar series is a 6 webinar series offered in a live webinar format scheduled every other month on the second Wednesday of the month from 12-1pm. …
May
8