Health System Strengthening for Cancer Control

Our health system strengthening work aims to enhance clinical environments across a range of evidence-based actions critical to cancer prevention, early detection and access to services. It leverages our experience in engaging multi-sectoral partnerships, providing capacity-building to collaborating organizations and supporting long-term sustainability.

Our approach

By collaborating with health systems and other organizations, we aim to build the deep capacity needed to support program evaluation, measurement, strategy, governance, delivery, fund development, leadership staffing and financial sustainability.

Our model

We work with health systems and clinics, providing technical assistance and capacity-building focused on cancer prevention and early detection intervention design and implementation. To support these actions, we:

• Invest in collaborating organizations
• Create learning environments linking organizations focused on similar risk factors
• Rely on best practices in quality improvement, public health and implementation of evidence-based interventions (EBIs)

Key objectives

• Increase Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination rates
• Reduce the breast cancer mortality gap
• Prevent hereditary breast cancer and ovarian cancer
• Implement clinic-based interventions to address non-medical drivers of health
• Improve clinic-based cancer screening and referrals for diagnostic services

Our impact

Results from fiscal year 2023 include:

• More than 78 local, regional and state organizations actively engaged across 18 counties
• 16 evidence-based interventions implemented to increase HPV vaccination
• 13,351 vaccinations administered
• 250,000 youth and adolescents reached
• 38,000+ providers and clinical staff trained on one or more priority areas
• 9,500+ parents trained and educated on HPV vaccination