PLANNING AND EVALUATION CORE ? ABSTRACT Our Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative (ChicagoCHEC) Planning and Evaluation Core (PEC) is comprised of an exceptional team with complementary expertise and responsibility to lead the core?s monitoring and evaluation activities. PEC members include: Drs. Kristi Holmes and Brian Hitsman from NU-LCC; Raymond Fuller and Dr. Wamucii Njogu from NEIU; and Drs. Timothy Johnson and Lisa Sanchez-Johnsen from UIC. This Renewal application for the ChicagoCHEC PEC proposes to build on the infrastructure created, program progress, and lessons learned from our first U54 award and continue to improve our integrated and responsive foundation to support planning, monitoring and evaluation. The PEC will continue to monitor progress through ongoing evaluation processes, maximize resources, identify novel directions for the Partnership in ongoing consultation with the Administrative Core, and report progress to institutional leaders and the NCI on a continual basis. The PEC team will work closely with the Internal Advisory Committee (IAC) and the Program Steering Committee (PSC) and is composed of two teams: The Evaluation Action Team (EvAT) and the Mentoring and Project Team. The decisions made by the PEC will be guided by data systematically collected and organized by the EvAT while the PEC?s Mentoring and Project Team will monitor the provision of support and mentorship of ChicagoCHEC?s early career faculty, in addition to working closely with the Administrative Core to seed collaborative, tri-institutional cancer research projects and developmental pilots over the next five-year grant period. The overall specific aims of the PEC are to: (1) Conduct ongoing tracking and evaluation of all Partnership activities to inform planning, improve processes, maximize resources, and communicate impact to stakeholders over the duration of the ChicagoCHEC Partnership, with support of the IAC, PSC, and NCI; (2) Create and sustain an ongoing Incubator and Catalyst Research Grant Program, encouraging tri-institutional partnership and a focus on cancer health equity; and (3) Bolster a pipeline of faculty focused on cancer research by coordinating and monitoring career enhancement, mentoring, and professional development activities for early career faculty.
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