As a member of the NACDD Cancer Council, you have at your fingertips a network of more than 400 cancer prevention and control professionals! Our experienced Program Directors and Program Managers can be our greatest resource to help work through challenges we face managing a CDC-funded cancer program.

The Mentoring Program seeks to connect cancer staff who want to strengthen their professional skills and knowledge with an experienced peer who is a volunteer mentor. The mentor and mentee can then meet via email, phone, Zoom, etc., to have a single conversation, or decide to have an ongoing peer-to-peer relationship. Each peer connection is unique!

MENTORS: Apply here.

MENTEES: Apply here.

If you have more questions about the Mentoring Program, please email us.

Each quarter, NACDD hosts a full Cancer Council meeting (virtual) that includes new and relevant information for all cancer staff, updates on projects, and presentations to enrich professional knowledge. Attending these calls is a great first step to becoming more familiar with the Cancer Council and its work.

NACDD has a variety of workgroups available and welcomes anyone who wishes to share or expand their expertise and knowledge. In addition to being part of a workgroup, members can develop their leadership skills by volunteering as a chair or co-chair of a workgroup. Members are also encouraged to create their own topic specific workgroup if their interest is not represented in what is currently available.

Any member of the Cancer Council may also run for an elected position on the Executive Committee. These positions include Chair, Chair-Elect, Past Chair, Secretary, and Member-at-Large. Members may also serve on the Leadership Team, responsible for ongoing strategic planning and decision-making.

Recorded Webinars

Coming soon!

National Resources

National Cancer Institute GIS Portal for Cancer Research – NCI GIS (Geographic Information Science) Portal is a web-based station for interactive mapping and visualization of cancer related geo-spatial data.  The portal includes several geospatial tools that feature interactive mapping and visualization of cancer related geo-spatial data, such as the NCI Cancer Atlas, Cancer Map Stories, Animated Historical Cancer Atlas, and the Tobacco Policy Viewer.

The Community Guide – The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) is a collection of evidence-based findings of the Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF). It is a resource to help you select interventions to improve health and prevent disease in your state, community, community organization, business, healthcare organization, or school.

Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalitions Advancing Health Equity (Zoom Series) – The Comprehensive Cancer Control National Partnership (CCCNP) has launched an effort designed to assist CCC coalitions and programs in addressing health inequities in cancer. The initiative focuses on advancing health equity through CCC plan update processes and CCC plan implementation and viewing CCC operations through a social justice and equity lens. As part of this effort, the CCCNP has gathered a set of resources, specifically for CCC coalitions, to help you learn about the issues and to take action.

Evidence-based Cancer Control Programs – A searchable database of evidence-based cancer control programs designed to provide program planners and public health practitioners easy and immediate access to program materials.

U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations Tool – This tool provides incidence and death counts, rates, and trend data; survival and prevalence estimates; and state-, county-, and congressional district data in a user-driven format.

National Breast Cancer Roundtable – A national coalition of member organizations with a collective aim to accelerate progress across the breast cancer continuum through strategic partnerships to eliminate disparities and reduce mortality. The Roundtable works to ensure all women have access to quality screening and treatment, including Black women and women in other historically excluded communities, and to address the social and emotional needs of patients and their families.

National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable (NCCRT) – NCCRT resources include practice implementation guides, communications tools, policy briefs, among others. Resources are developed for professionals in primary care, specialty care, public health, health plans, employers, and community settings, among others.

National Lung Cancer Roundtable – The National Lung Cancer Roundtable (NLCRT) is a national coalition of public, private, and voluntary organizations, and invited individuals, dedicated to reducing the incidence of and mortality from lung cancer in the United States, through coordinated leadership, strategic planning, and advocacy. 

National HPV Roundtable – The National HPV Vaccination Roundtable is a coalition of approximately 70 organizations working at the intersection of immunization and cancer prevention. The collective mission of these organizations is to raise HPV vaccination rates and prevent HPV cancers in the United States.

National Navigation Roundtable – The NNRT serves as a catalyst to initiate work on key issues around patient navigation, as well as to disseminate best practices and to overall enhance the field of navigation. Together, members work to share information, identify needs and opportunities, while addressing gaps relating to navigation.

National Roundtable on Cervical Cancer – The National Roundtable on Cervical Cancer is a national coalition of member organizations with a primary goal to eliminate cervical cancer in our lifetime and engage key organizations to institute policy and systems changes that increase cervical cancer screening.

Conversations About Cancer – NACDD and CDC have developed engaging, interactive conversation simulations with computer-animated virtual humans to help both providers and patients navigate difficult conversations about cancer screening, treatment, and survivorship.

National Networks

The CDC funds eight national tobacco-related cancer disparity networks that work to spread best practices across tobacco and cancer programs and national organizations. Each of these networks can serve as subject matter experts and provide tools and resources to your cancer programs. We invite you to explore each one and get in touch!