Empowering Clinicians to Reduce Tobacco-Related Cancer Disparities
Are you a healthcare provider or organizational leader serving communities disproportionately burdened by cancer? This training program is designed to help clinicians develop essential tobacco treatment skills and effective implementation strategies that can drive system-wide change. The goal is to help eliminate tobacco-related cancer disparities across the United States.
Why This Training Matters
Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of cancer and is strongly linked to lung, head and neck, pancreatic, and urinary tract cancers. Yet, disparities continue in tobacco use rate, receipt of treatment, and who survives their tobacco-related cancer diagnosis.
Healthcare professionals often recognize the need for tobacco intervention but lack the training, support, and implementation tools to integrate treatment into busy or complex care settings. This program closes that gap.
What You’ll Gain
A comprehensive, implementation-ready curriculum designed for clinicians, care managers, and behavioral health professionals working in:
- Underserved rural areas
- Low-income communities
- Behavioral health and SUD treatment programs
- HIV care settings
Our goal is to assist at least 200 healthcare professionals develop a scalable process that meets the needs of their practice – and their community - for free. Space is limited so register now!
Program Highlights
✔ Targeted Focus on Priority Populations
These groups face some of the highest tobacco use rates and poorest cancer outcomes. This program is engineered to change that.
✔ Beyond Skills: System-Level Transformation
You won’t just learn how to treat tobacco use. You will learn how to transform your organization’s response through:
- Implementation science strategies
- Practice redesign tools
- Evidence-based system change techniques
✔ Expert-Led Training, Backed by Research
Led by nationally recognized leaders from the University of Pennsylvania and elsewhere, this program blends clinical training with real-world expertise in cancer care and systems change.
✔ Immersive, Multi-Modal Learning
- Virtual & asynchronous instruction
- Actor-based role plays & skill-building workshops
- Small group implementation labs
✔ Measurable Outcomes & Sustainability
- Post-training implementation practice self-audits
- CEU and pharmacology credit opportunities
- Feedback loops & mentorship for continuous improvement
✔ Community Insight
- A dedicated Public Advisory Group ensures community voice
- Virtual office hours with faculty for ongoing support
Take the Lead in Reducing Tobacco-Related Cancer Disparities
Whether you’re a primary care provider, behavioral health professional, or health system leader, this is your opportunity to empower traditionally underserved patients and create lasting systems change.
Become part of a national movement to eliminate tobacco-related cancer disparities by starting in your own community – where it matters most.
Register now or contact us for more information at pennstop@uphs.upenn.edu.