National Cancer Plan Engagement Calendar
We want you to share with the cancer community—and the world!—how your work is helping to advance the eight goals of the National Cancer Plan.
By joining in the conversation, you’ll connect with others across the community to simultaneously explore various goals and topics. We hope that this combined effort will help to build new collaborations, identify gaps and challenges, and implement solutions to help us end cancer as we know it
Here's how it works
- Follow the quarterly engagement calendar themes to plan out how you want to feature your activities related to each empowering goal in the plan (Optimize the Workforce, Eliminate Inequities, Maximize Data Utility, and Engage Every Person). Describe how it helps to make progress in one or more of the health-centric goals (Prevent Cancer, Detect Cancer Early, Deliver Optimal Care, Develop Effective Treatments).
- Share what you are doing related to the designated engagement calendar theme on your various platforms—on your website, blog posts, newsletters. For social media, use #Every1HasARole and #NationalCancerPlan.
- Use your posts to start new discussions, engage with new collaborators, and transcend traditional boundaries. Check out related posts from across the community to broaden your own perspective.
- We will monitor your engagement and share selected activities and collaborations across the National Cancer Plan’s channels. This includes the National Cancer Plan Updates newsletter and website.
| Timeframe | Featured Empowering Goal |
|---|---|
| September–November 2024 | Optimize the Workforce |
| December 2024–February 2025 | Eliminate Inequities |
| March–May 2025 | Maximize Data Utility |
| June–August 2025 | Engage Every Person |
National Cancer Plan Engagement Themes
September–November 2024
Featured Empowering Goal: Optimize the Workforce
Share how you are building a diverse cancer workforce that reflects the communities served and meets the needs of all people with cancer.
As a starting point, you can review the strategies included in the National Cancer Plan for advancing this goal to identify relevant efforts you may wish to highlight.
For example, you can:
- Share profiles or interviews of people in your organization who are early in their cancer career, or who are engaged in mentoring.
- Write blog posts describing how your organization supports professional growth, training, and career development.
You can take it a step further and connect your efforts to one or more of the health-centric goals—here’s an example:
- Create a social media post describing how your organization provides training and support that prepares professionals to effectively bring advancements in cancer prevention, early diagnosis, treatment, and care to underserved communities in your area.
December 2024–February 2025
Featured Empowering Goal: Eliminate Inequities
Share how your work helps to understand and address health inequities, to ensure all people benefit from advances in cancer research, from prevention through survivorship.
As a starting point, you can review the strategies included in the National Cancer Plan for advancing this goal to identify relevant efforts you may wish to highlight.
For example, you can:
- Publish a newsletter article highlighting your organization’s efforts to provide culturally cognizant educational services about clinical trials to underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.
- Host a webinar that explores the topic of health literacy.
- Create a social media post affirming your support of strategies that boost representation of all populations in cancer care and research.
You can take it a step further and connect your efforts to one or more of the health-centric goals—here’s an example:
- Share an article that explains how your organization is making cancer screening and diagnostic services more accessible for uninsured or underinsured communities.
March–May 2025
Featured Empowering Goal: Maximize Data Utility
Share how you are making it standard practice to securely share privacy-protected health data as part of the advancement to rapid progress against cancer.
As a starting point, you can review the strategies included in the National Cancer Plan for advancing this goal to identify relevant efforts you may wish to highlight.
For example, you can:
- Create a social media post that spotlights how your organization returns individual and study results to research participants and why it’s important to do so.
- Write a blog post about how your organization is promoting the use of secured, routine health care data in research.
You can take it a step further and connect your efforts to one or more of the health-centric goals—here’s an example:
- Share quotes from a researcher or clinician in your organization about how they support early detection screening efforts through standardized data sharing.
June–August 2025
Featured Empowering Goal: Engage Every Person
Share how you are removing barriers to participate in research and ensure that every person with cancer or at risk for cancer has an opportunity to join a clinical trial or otherwise participate in research and contribute to the collective knowledge base.
As a starting point, you can review the strategies included in the National Cancer Plan for advancing this goal to identify relevant efforts you may wish to highlight.
For example, you can:
- Write a blog post describing how your organization facilitates rapid referral, access, enrollment, accrual, and retention of diverse populations in clinical trials.
- Share profiles or interviews of researchers who are developing and streamlining methods to increase access to all types of clinical and observational studies.
You can take it a step further and connect your efforts to one or more of the health-centric goals—here’s an example:
- Share a leadership thought piece that addresses the design and conduct of community-based cancer prevention and screening, supportive care, symptom management, and observational clinical trials.
Do you have questions or comments? Email PresCancerPanel@mail.nih.gov.