Tisch Cancer Center Community Outreach | Icahn School of Medicine

CONNECT WITH US

Community Outreach and Engagement

The primary objective of the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center’s Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) Program is to mitigate health disparities across the cancer care continuum and lessen the cancer burden within our community, with a focus on underserved populations. Our newly identified catchment area now encompasses all five boroughs of New York City, home to a diverse population where 85 percent of our cancer patients reside. Significant socioeconomic challenges in New York City contribute to disproportionately worse cancer outcomes among these populations, with notable differences in cancer incidence and mortality.

The COE has established a robust infrastructure for community engagement and has flourished by fostering collaborations and achieving milestones such as the development of a robust infrastructure for bidirectional research, and enacting cancer policy initiatives. Evaluation efforts are rigorous, ensuring alignment with community needs in tandem with three identified aims:

Monitor and evaluate the cancer burden, related disparities, and needs within and beyond New York City;
Engage communities in outreach, programming activities, and clinical trial enrollment;
Inform and facilitate programmatic research and policy initiatives responsive to identified cancer-related and community-driven priorities

Community Advisory Board

Members of the Community Advisory Board (CAB) represent a range of professional and demographic backgrounds that span the foci of NYC. They represent community- and faith-based organizations and federally qualified health centers and include patient advocates representing each of our priority cancer types and all boroughs in NYC. Through a structured, iterative, responsive process, our members help identify and mitigate upstream causes of cancer disparities in the underserved populations. Three workgroups, each with an emphasis on outreach, education, policy and research, define our focus: Risk Reduction, Early Detection, and Screening; Treatment, Survivorship, and Supportive Oncology; and Community Scientists.

We also work to ensure that our Advisory Board members reflect the communities we serve, that we share key cancer-related messages based on recent research, and that we identify and address gaps in health care delivery.

Our Leadership

Melissa Mazor, PhD, MS, RN

Co-Associate Director, Community Outreach and Engagement

Dr. Mazor is Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Assistant Director of Community Outreach and Engagement...

Co-Associate Director, Community Outreach and Engagement

For Community Members For Researchers Explore Cancer Data in NYC

Community Outreach and Engagement Team

TATIANA SABRINA RAMIREZ

Project and CHERC Research Coordinator

JINWEN HUANG

Health Educator, Y. S. F (預•善防)

Funding and Collaborative Initiatives

Cancer Health Research Center (2025-2030)

The Cancer Health Research Center at Mount Sinai (CHERC-MS) was established with grant funding from the American Cancer Society with the goal of reducing health inequities in cancer care and lessening the burden of cancer among underserved communities across the five boroughs of New York City.

Prevention and Screening Interventions Project (2024)

Funded by the American Cancer Society, our lung cancer program addressed lung cancer health disparities within Black communities by (1) delivering evidence-based lung cancer educational programs and lung screenings to at-risk community sites; (2) training Community Health Workers (CHWs) to work one-on-one with community members; and (3) determining the eligibility of individuals for low-dose tomography scan and navigating them through to screening.

P30 Administrative Supplement (2023-2024)

This award from the National Cancer Institute supported the creation of a program that recruited and trained college students to help local Black community members find free or low-cost breast cancer screenings.

Connecting for Lung Health (2022-2023)

Supported by CancerCare, Connecting for Lung Health provided culturally tailored lung cancer patient education and navigation into free or low-cost low-dose computed tomography screening for at-risk communities across New York City.

New York City Regional Cancer Collaborative

The New York City Regional Cancer Collaborative (NYCRCC) is a collaboration between academic and hospital cancer centers and supporting organizations in New York City to improve cancer burden within the city and beyond.

Members include:

Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University
Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Community-based organizations within NYC

Center of Excellence for Cancer Support Services

Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center’s Center of Excellence for Cancer Support Services help patients manage physical symptoms, emotional issues, and spiritual concerns they may have with cancer and strives to help patients maintain a positive outlook and well-being.

Empowering Communities Through Outreach, Research and Support

Cancer Survivorship Workshop in Cantonese

Lo Nuevo en Tratamientos y Servicios de Apoyo Para Pacientes con Mieloma

Breast Cancer Survivorship for Women of Color

Cancer Survivorship Workshop in Cantonese - April 8, 2022

Brooklyn College Cancer Center Health and Wellness Fair

View All Videos

Discover the Latest

Follow Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer COE

Popular Searches

Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center

Community Outreach and Engagement

Explore This Section

MOUNT SINAI TISCH CANCER CENTER

CONNECT WITH US

Community Outreach and Engagement

Community Advisory Board