HRSA Cervical Cancer Learning Series

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Problem

Cervical cancer is a preventable and treatable disease, but treatment and outcome disparities persist.

Vaccination can significantly reduce the risk of cervical cancer, and when detected early through regular screening, it is highly treatable. Despite advancements in cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment, significant disparities in screening and cervical cancer mortality rates persist. Safety-net health care settings play a crucial role in providing cervical cancer care, encompassing prevention and screening. Therefore, it is imperative that safety-net providers adhere to evidence-based guidelines for prevention, screening, and patient management when caring for their patients.

Solution

NORC is helping HRSA develop, deliver, and evaluate a comprehensive remote learning series on the cervical cancer care continuum.

HRSA’s Office of Women’s Health established the Federal Cervical Cancer Collaborative to realize the vision of the Cancer Moonshot in safety-net settings of care and respond to cervical cancer health disparities in the U.S. and its territories.

Informed by the Improving Cervical Cancer Prevention, Screening, and Management: A Toolkit to Build Provider Capacity, NORC is developing, delivering, and evaluating a comprehensive learning series for HRSA and other safety-net settings of care to strengthen cervical cancer prevention, screening, and management using the Project ECHO remote learning series model.

We will also produce a public-facing, accessible compilation of all materials developed for the learning series. This will include a guide that incorporates insights from the evaluation, explaining how to implement the learning series and its content objectives.

Result

Our efforts will improve the confidence and skills of health care providers in following evidence-based guidelines on cervical cancer care.

This learning series aims to fortify cervical cancer prevention, screening, and management while fostering collaborative efforts among providers across the U.S. and its territories to support each other with their ongoing efforts of delivering cervical cancer care. The learning series curriculum and evaluation results will be published after the initial training pilot so that future cohorts of learners can access, tailor, and implement in their own settings of care.

NORC will produce a public-facing, accessible compilation of all materials developed for the learning series. This will include a guide that incorporates insights from the evaluation, explaining how to implement the learning series and its content objectives.