Office of Community Outreach and Engagement at the UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

The overall mission and long-term goal of the CFCCC’s Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) component is to reduce cancer-related burdens in the Catchment Area through cancer monitoring, community outreach and education, strategic partnerships and coalitions, advocacy, and facilitation of research that promotes cancer health equity for all. This mission involves translating and disseminating the Center’s research into practice and policy, as well as communicating concerns and attitudes of the community to Center members to inform new research initiatives. COE also builds on well-known best practices to improve cancer prevention, early detection, and access to quality cancer care.

There are three pillars to our mission:

1. Cancer Health Equity: Assess the cancer burden and disparities in communities, with an emphasis on reducing cancer incidence and mortality among diverse populations in Orange County and beyond;
2. Partnerships that Respect Community Autonomy: Partner with communities to advance evidence-based cancer prevention and control practices that reduce these disparities in diverse populations;
3. Policy and Systems Change: Promote policy development, implementation and evaluation to decrease cancer incidence and mortality, and that leverage and extend the impact of the UCI CFCCC to wider populations across the state and country.