VISION
Transforming cancer care by advancing quality science
MISSION
To conduct high impact quality science research to address real world issues in oncology
Strategic Priorities 2025-2028
PRIORITY 1
Embedding digital health technologies into routine cancer care
Scope: We are working with patients, health equity experts, clinicians and policy makers/ knowledge users from across the country to develop a comprehensive virtual cancer care evaluation framework, which will inform policy and funding decisions.
Objectives:
- Helping to translate innovations, such as remote monitoring and AI-driven clinical risk prediction models, to routine care while furthering the science/ theory of how to effectively embed these technologies in practice
- Working to understand and optimize the role of patients and community partners in digital health technology implementation and evaluation.
PRIORITY 2
Improving the quality of cancer care for under-served patients
Scope: Leveraging AI to evaluate the unmet supportive care needs of patients, to identify high-needs sub-populations, and high-needs supports.
Objectives:
- Utilizing community-based participatory research approaches to co-create, implement and evaluate interventions to address disparities in cancer care for underserved patient populations, including those who self-identify Black (CCS funded), and those with concurrent opioid-use disorders (CIHR funded).
PRIORITY 3
Predicting and addressing cancer care workforce challenges
Scope: utilizing population-level data to develop a cancer care workforce requirements simulation model and evaluating the impact of different potential solutions (ie: task shifting, utilization of AI, new models of care) on system capacity.
Objectives:
- We are also implementing and pragmatically evaluating a CIHR-funded pan-Canadian cancer care workforce optimization education and coaching program.