NASEM National Cancer Policy Forum Event – Promoting Health Equity in Cancer Care: A Virtual Workshop

On October 25 and 26, 2021, the National Cancer Policy Forum and the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity will host a public workshop that will examine opportunities to improve health equity across the cancer care continuum. The workshop will feature invited presentations and panel discussions on topics that may include:

• Opportunities to improve patient access to affordable, high-quality cancer care
• Strategies to identify and address the intersectionality of structural racism and implicit bias in cancer care delivery.
• The potential for quality measurement and payment mechanisms to incentivize health equity in cancer care delivery.
• Clinical practice data collection efforts to better assess and care for patients with cancer