Cancer Center Plan to Enhance Diversity Survey

With the establishment of the new Plan to Enhance Diversity (PED) component across NCI-designated cancer centers, efforts to both lead and develop these plans are rapidly expanding across the nation. This questionnaire was created to better understand the opportunities and challenges related to the development and pursuit of PEDs. The goal of this questionnaire is to help inform the broader cancer center community about the current landscape of PED efforts and to share experiences of PED leaders.

The ideal person to complete this survey is the PED leader at your institution, or if one has not yet been appointed it should be completed by a cancer center leader with strong knowledge of your center’s current diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

Your cancer center does not need to be NCI designated for you to complete this survey.

All responses will be kept strictly confidential, and information collected will only be reported out in ways that no individual or individual cancer center can be identified.

There are four sections to the survey:

A. Information on the person completing the survey

B. PED Core development

C. PED-related demographics

D. PED leadership demographics

All survey questions except those in Section A are optional.

The results of the survey will be shared with all respondents and there are plans to publish the results in a peer-reviewed journal. We plan to circulate the survey again in a few years to document changes/trends in the efforts to enhance diversity in membership and leadership in cancer research.

A. Information on Person Completing this Survey and their Cancer Center
The first set of questions are about you and the cancer center you represent.

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* 1. What is your first name?

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* 2. What is your last name?

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* 3. What is your email address?

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* 4. On behalf of which cancer center are you responding?

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* 5. What is your role at this cancer center?

PED Leader or Associate Director for DEI/PED/or equivalent

Assistant Director/Deputy Associate Director for DEI/PED/or equivalent

PED/DEI staff member

Other (please specify)

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* 6. When were you appointed into the role you indicated above (an approximate date is fine)?

Month/Year

Date

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* 7. What best describes your cancer center type?

Basic Laboratory Cancer Center

Cancer Center

Comprehensive Cancer Center

Not NCI designated

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* 8. How many full cancer center members/faculty does your cancer center have? (enter number)

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* 9. If your cancer center has a catchment area, what is the total (approximate) size of the population in your catchment area? Enter 0 if your cancer center does not have a catchment area. (enter number)

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* 10. What proportion of the population in your catchment area is part of an underrepresented racial and/or ethnic minority (URM) group based on the NIH definition (e.g., African American/Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, Hispanic/Latinx, or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander)? If your cancer center does not have a catchment area, what proportion of the population in the geographic area in which its main campus is located in is part of a URM group?

<5%

5-9%

10-14%

15-19%

20-29%

30-39%

40-49%

≥50%