Meetings and Trainings of Interest

These initiatives aim to unite healthcare professionals, researchers, and community leaders to exchange knowledge on cancer prevention and control, reducing the burden of cancer across New York State.

ChangeLabs Solution: Exploring the Social Determinants of Health, Health Equity & the Law

*Virtual

Brought to you by ChangeLab Solutions and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Law Program, a new two-part series that offers insight into how public health laws affect social determinants of health and health equity.

PART 1: How Does the Law, Past and Present, Affect Health Equity?

PART 2:  How to Use Law and Policy to Affect Health Equity

Project Engage Lung Cancer Screening Support
**This training is open to tobacco training specialist (TTS) only 

Project ENGAGE invites you to join our FREE, one-hour online accredited course, designed to equip you with the latest knowledge and strategies for guiding clients toward life-saving lung cancer screenings.

Accredited Learning: Approved by the Council for Tobacco Treatment Training Programs, this course provides 1 continuing education contact hour upon completion, along with a certificate of achievement to recognize your expertise.

GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences: Oncology Patient Navigator Training

*Virtual
Course Opens: 3/16/2025
Course Ends: 3/17/2027

This comprehensive, competency-based training is free, aligns with CMS requirements for training and uses evidence-based information to prepare patient navigators to effectively address barriers to care for cancer patients and survivors.

George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences: Special Topics in Patient Navigation: Getting Paid for Patient Navigation

*Course expires 10/21/2026

This training, presented by Dr. Mandi Pratt-Chapman, Associate Center Director for Community Outreach, Engagement, and Equity at the GW Cancer Center, aims to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the new CMS guidelines and billing codes for patient navigation services effective January 1, 2024.

George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences: Oncology Patient Navigator Training

*Course Expires 3/17/2027

This training uses evidence-based information to prepare patient navigators to effectively address barriers to care for cancer patients and survivors. Through a collaborative process, the George Washington (GW) Cancer Center developed the first-ever, national consensus-based competencies for oncology patient navigators without a clinical license.

GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences: Oncology Patient Navigation

Course Opens: 3/16/2025
Course Closes: 3/17/2027

This comprehensive, competency-based training is free, aligns with CMS requirements for training

Cicatelli Associates, Inc. (CAI) in collaboration with the NYS Department of Health Bureau of Cancer and Prevention: Empower Your Patients, Improve Screening - Learn Effective Communication for Colorectal Cancer

*Virtual
Training will be available now through June 2027

CancerCare: Update on the Treatment of Ovarian Cancer

*Virtual
September 10th, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

CancerCare: Managing Side Effects and Understanding the Role of Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs) in Treating Cancer

*Virtual
September 30th, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

To Life!: 2nd annual family-friendly 5k walk/run:

Mohawk Harbor in Schenectady

October 4th
Registration opens at 8:30 AM
Race begins at 9:00 AM

This year’s I Pink I Can event will feature local vendors, food trucks, and family-friendly activities. Complementary beverages are provided for each runner courtesy of Druthers Brewery.
 
Registration is $40 and kids are free.

Triage Cancer: Insurance & Finance Intensive

*Virtual
October 6th

FREE, online training program for oncology health care professionals and advocates. Participants will learn about health and disability insurance and finances.

CancerCare: Metastatic Prostate Cancer: Current Treatment Advances

*Virtual
October 6th, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

American Cancer Society and HPV National Vaccination Roundtable: 2026 Promising Practices Series 

*Virtual
October 15th, December 10th
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Inviting health care professionals to a dynamic, multi-session webinar series to highlight and discuss the latest evidence-based practices to improve HPV vaccination (among adolescents aged 9–13) and cervical cancer elimination efforts nationwide. Each session brings together experts and innovators to share evidence, strategies, and real-world successes.