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.

American Cancer Society: HPV and Oropharyngeal Cancer - Trends, Clinical Impact, and Prevention Through Vaccination 

*Virtual
April 20th, 12:00 PM

Union for International Cancer Control: Virtual Dialogue - The evidence on air pollution and cancer

*Virtual
April 20th
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Central European Summer Time
6:00 AM - 7:00 AM EST

CancerCare: Managing Eye and Vision Changes Related to Cancer Treatments

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

CancerCare: Treatment Update on Oral, Head and Neck Cancer

*Virtual
April 29th, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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

*Virtual
May 13, 2026, 10:00 AM

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