NIH Cancer Education Grants Program (R25) PAR-08-120

“Cancer education” grants may target a variety of audiences, including: science or health care students with an interest in cancer research careers; established cancer scientists seeking short term educational updates in emerging cancer science areas such as genetics and molecular drug discovery; and health care providers in need of information on the latest developments in cancer prevention and control. Grants that target community health care providers or community settings are intended to provide information needed to facilitate the diffusion of evidence-based findings within a relatively short time. The programs, which have been proposed for Cancer Education grants, may use a variety of formats, depending upon both target audiences and specific goals. Grants that are aimed at educating students, cancer scientists, cancer care professionals, clinicians, and/or community health providers, may develop and use primarily curriculum-based short-term educational experiences. Program delivery to the targeted audience(s) may take place in traditional educational settings or via web-based and other “virtual” approaches. Curriculum content may range from cancer biology and genetics to cancer prevention, control, and palliative care.

Examples of project themes that may be funded through the CEGP include (but are not limited to) the following areas: * New curriculum development within an academic institution in areas of critical importance to cancer education (e.g., nutrition, pain management, palliative care, and genetics). * New curriculum development within the Minority Institution/Cancer Center Partnership program (MI/CCP) to motivate college students at Minority Serving Institutions to focus their careers on reduction of cancer health disparities. * Development of primarily short-term curriculum based educational programs in academic settings to encourage college science students, pre-doctoral biomedical and health sciences students to pursue careers in cancer research. * Short term courses to educate community health care providers in evidence-based cancer prevention and control techniques including cancer screening programs, tobacco cessation techniques, nutrition education and clinical cancer genetics. * Educational approaches to encourage community health care providers and community-based organizations to adopt evidence-based prevention and screening interventions. * Research dissemination approaches to increase the adaptation of evidence-based preventive interventions to ethnically and linguistically diverse communities. * Research/practice partnership education programs that are directed to increase the utilization of evidence-based information in community settings.

Development of: (i) innovative cancer education programs; and (ii) cancer research dissemination projects that can be completed within 5 years.