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WHY WE'RE FUNDRAISING WITH THE JIMMY FUND WALK TO FIGHT CANCER
Thank you for considering a gift to IGNITE. We are the first pediatric oncology health equity research consortium—a research infrastructure that will catalyze bold, innovative approaches to research that challenges the status quo and establishes health equity science as an integrated priority across pediatric oncology nationally. Our mission is to reduce outcome disparities via the rapid development and evaluation of evidence-based health equity interventions.
The rarity of childhood cancer means that the field of pediatric oncology relies on large, multicenter cooperative group trials to improve survival outcomes. As a result, addressing identified disparities in this context requires health equity interventions that are scalable across cooperative clinical trial groups (e.g., the Children’s Oncology Group) to allow for the evaluation of efficacy in reducing disparities. From a logistical standpoint, this requires establishing a pipeline and feasibility testing framework within which to develop and evaluate health equity interventions. This is analogous to the familiar early-phase drug pipeline and consortia, which evaluate drugs for safety and initial signals of effect before running large, randomized controlled trials of efficacy. Currently, there is no existing research infrastructure in which to similarly develop, refine, and evaluate the feasibility of health equity interventions.
Our innovative research is possible through the support of donors and foundations. Any gift, no matter the size, advances our research mission to improve outcomes for every child with cancer. All donations are tax deductible and will directly support IGNITE research efforts.
To contribute by check, please write "IGNITE Giving Page" in the memo line, and send to:
Giving Pages
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Division of Development & The Jimmy Fund
10 Brookline Place West, 6th Fl
Brookline, MA 02445
617-632-6247
For further assistance, you may also contact:
Kelsey Cunningham
Telephone: (857) 215-0297
kelseyn_cunningham@dfci.harvard.edu
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