Next Steps in Cancer Health Equity: Are You Ready to Engage the Medicaid Population?

Panelists:
Gary Puckrein, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer
National Minority Quality Forum
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Tammy Boyd, JD, MPH
Chief Policy Officer & Counsel, Black Women’s Health Imperative

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Moderator:

Mary Stober Murray, MPH, Vice President, Collaborative Action Networks
National Minority Quality Forum
https://www.nmqf.org/

Links shared during webinar:
Clinical Treatment Act
(2020; 116th Congress S. 4742): https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill…

NMQF’s Diverse Cancer Communities Working Group has a pilot for a peer-to-peer online community called Representative Clinical Trials: a Collaborative Community. The platforms hosts resources, events and discussions to help individual stakeholders learn how to use tools and processes to improve clinical trial diversity and to learn how to advocate for diversity within their organizations. Contact workinggroups@nmqf.org for more information or to schedule and RCT Collaborative Community demo.

Medicaid Expansion and Cancer Care, JAMA https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama…

You can get access to NMQF’s Cancer Indices by joining the Diverse Cancer Communities Working group. Contact workinggroups@nmqf.org for more information or to schedule and Index demo.

Read Commentary from Gary Puckrein and Janet Woodcock in JAMA: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056…

NMQF publications related to Investigative site practices for greater inclusion in clinical trials:
http://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/… (JOP Editor’s Pick 2019)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2020…

See NMQF’s 2021 publication—by experts from @LUNGevity @CancerCare @FoxChaseCancer @mvalliance @TuftsMedSchool @bmsnews, convened by @NMQF—features insights on impactful practices to erase #cancer disparities across the care continuum, starting with screening. https://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200…

Multicancer Early detection – link to AI Healthnet: https://ai-healthnet.com/leading-heal…

Nominations for the2022 40 Under 40 Leaders in Health Awards are Now Open! All nominees must be under 40 years of age by April 27, 2022. Applications must be submitted by 8:00 pm EST on February 7, 2021. Click here to apply: https://www.nmqf.org/40under40