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.

Rutgers Health Robert Wood Johnson Medical School: Project ECHO Screening and Prevention - HIV & Cancer

*Virtual
Feb 11, 2026, 10:00 AM
Mar 11, 2026, 10:00 AM
Apr 8, 2026, 10:00 AM
May 13, 2026, 10:00 AM

Aldephi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program:  Addressing the Needs of People Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer

*Virtual
February 10th, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

SID Jacobson JCC: Cancer Wellness - Nourishment without the Overwhelm

*Virtual
February 11th, 6:00 PM

This workshop is designed for individuals ages 18–49 who have been impacted by cancer and will focus on practical, realistic approaches to nourishment during and after cancer treatment, with ample space for discussion and questions in a supportive setting.

CancerCare: The Benefits of Clinical Trials for Triple Negative Breast Cancer

*Vritual
February 18th, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

American Cancer Society: 2026 National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month Webcast

*Virtual
March 18th, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

CancerCare: Thyroid Cancer: New Trends in Treatment

*Virtual
March 27th, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

GW Cancer Center TAP: Lung Cancer Screening Action Planning Workshop

*In-Person
April 8th - 10th

The George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center is offering a free lung cancer screening action-planning workshop to facilitate inclusion of lung cancer screening in state cancer control plans and to increase the quality of interventions programs and coalitions use to improve lung cancer screening. There is space for up to 40 participants.  

APPLICATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 21ST

**The GW Cancer Center will select up to up to two individuals from 20 CCC coalitions/programs to participate (One must be a NCCCP funded recipient).**

American Cancer Society: Improving Treatment of Advanced Breast Cancer ECHO - Cohort 2

Targeted Professionals: Physicians, Healthcare Social Workers, Nurses, Palliative Care Nurses, Patient Navigators

*Virtual
October 30th - June 2, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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