ADMINISTRATIVE CORE ? ABSTRACT The Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative (ChicagoCHEC) Administrative Core (AC) leverages a shared governance model in order to fulfill its responsibilities to establish mechanisms and infrastructure that promote planning, communication, interaction, integration, and evaluation that support the broad spectrum of research, education, and outreach activities to advance cancer health equity. ChicagoCHEC builds on the solid foundation of a 10-year collaborative track record that includes our first NCI U54 Comprehensive Partnership to Advance Cancer Health Equity (CPACHE) award. The AC, led by a tri-institutional MPI team, capitalizes on the strengths of each institution and leverages those strengths to build cancer research capacity at two minority serving institutions University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU), and to expand cancer disparities research at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University (NU-LCC). AC leadership is instrumental in guiding our Partnership, identifying resources, building collaborative ties, capacity building, and helping facilitate faculty and students advancement in cancer research, education, and outreach within the framework of institutional policies. The AC team from UIC, NEIU and NU-LCC have worked together in varying capacities for the past 10 years and are a well-integrated team, laying the groundwork for a strong collaboration upon which to launch and sustain ChicagoCHEC?s next chapter. To guide operations and ensure best practices and the realization of targeted milestones in all Partnership activities, we will leverage our established standard operating protocol, a full operations manual, and detailed logic models that guide Partnership activities and evaluation processes. Our AC is guided by an Internal Advisory Committee (IAC) and a Program Steering Committee (PSC). We now plan to further advance the foundation built through our initial U54 award to fulfill the following Specific Aims: (1) Provide overall support for ChicagoCHEC activities, ensuring integration, coordination, collaboration, and fiscal administration across the Projects and Cores; (2) Refine and maintain communication processes and structures to enhance the overall visibility of the ChicagoCHEC Partnership; (3) Facilitate mechanisms to optimize integration with, and efficient utilization of, institutional resources within the partnering institutions NU-LCC, UIC, and NEIU; (4) Organize and maintain a robust pipeline for continuous recruitment of students and faculty from minority and underrepresented backgrounds into this Partnership; and (5) Drive iterative and robust evaluation of all ChicagoCHEC Partnership activities.
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