In January 2025, members of the Community Advisory Board were invited to participate in one of the four priority cancer working groups: breast, lung, colorectal, and prostate. Since JAF supports all cancer types, Jen decided to join the group that the COE team believed would benefit from her expertise in addressing the cancer burden in Massachusetts while promoting health equity. She was assigned to the colorectal group, which aims to address gaps such as increasing screening in underperforming counties, targeting outreach for high-incidence populations, developing culturally tailored programs, implementing community-based interventions, and enhancing data tracking by race and ethnicity.
For the first time since the pandemic, the COE CAB met in person on Tuesday, May 20, with working group members, academic partners, and community partners—individuals with whom the members had not yet had the opportunity to collaborate.
Photo taken at the May 20 meeting at DFCI. From left to right: Mark Kennedy, MBA; Leon Bethune, MPH; Hamaiyal Sana, MBBS, MPH; Dhriti Dhawan, PhD; Jennifer Reiner, MPH; Christopher S. Lathan, MD, MS, MPH; Vish Viswanath, PhD; Jeffrey Yang, MD; Nadine J. McCleary, MD, MPH; Kerri Medeiros, MPA; Shioban Torres, DrpH, MPH; Jen Andruzzi; Karen Burns White; Sara Minsky, MPH
We look forward to providing updates on the work of the COE CAB and its working groups, and we invite you to support their efforts. If you are looking for a meaningful way to contribute this coming Saturday, please sign up today for the 8th Annual Healing Powers: A Celebration of Cancer Survivorship event. Click here to visit the event webpage and register.
