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How the Comprehensive Cancer Control National Partnership shapes the public health workforce

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This paper explores how, through its extensive network of partners, the Comprehensive Cancer Control National Partnership (National Partnership) has provided a robust array of trainings, learning institutes, webinars, workshops, mentorship programs, and direct technical assistance to comprehensive cancer control programs and coalitions over the past 20 years. Mapping these activities to specific cancer control competencies revealed that the efforts of the National Partnership adequately address the core competencies necessary for an effective workforce and have the potential to increase practitioner capacity to adopt and implement evidence-based cancer control programs. Ensuring the continued availability and uptake of these tools, trainings and partnerships could potentially address gaps and barriers in the public health workforce related to evidence-based practice.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Sarah Shafir, Lorrie Graaf, and Todd Tyler of the American Cancer Society and Dalena Nguyen, formerly of the National Cancer Institute, for their assistance in data collection and presentation. This research was supported in part by an appointment (K. Gibson) to the Research Participation Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education through an interagency agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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  1. National Cancer Institute (NCI), Bethesda, USA

    Margaret M. Farrell, Angela Marler & Candace Deaton Maynard

  2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, USA

    Kelsy M. Gibson

  3. Strategic Health Concepts, Earlysville, USA

    Leslie Given

  4. George Washington University Cancer Center, Washington, DC, USA

    Aubrey Van Kirk Villalobos

  5. National Association of Chronic Disease Directors, Decatur, USA

    Frank S. Bright

  6. Susan G. Komen®, Houston, USA

    Ginny Thompson Kirklin

  7. Interventions Associates LLC, Atlanta, USA

    Truemenda C. Green

  8. National Association of County and City Health Officials, Washington, DC, USA

    Melanie Ruhe & Stephanie Weiss

  9. The State of Alaska Comprehensive Cancer Control Program, Anchorage, USA

    Julia Thorsness

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Farrell, M.M., Gibson, K.M., Marler, A. et al. How the Comprehensive Cancer Control National Partnership shapes the public health workforce. Cancer Causes Control 29, 1205–1220 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-018-1110-4

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