Advancing Health Equity in the Cancer Care Sector: Resources

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Online Courses:

Creating Safe Connections: Practical Strategies to Support Lung Cancer Screening

Relevant Publications:

“There’s just such a mismatch”: A qualitative exploration of health systems and organizational-level barriers to accessing cancer services among people experiencing structural marginalization

Horrill, T. C., Crawford, J., Beck, S., Bourgeois, A., Kaur, J., Lambert, L. K., McKenzie, M., Stajduhar, K. I., & Browne, A. J. (2025). International Journal for Equity in Health, 24(1), 181-16. doi: 10.1186/s12939-025-02554-8

Facilitating equity-oriented cancer care in organizations delivering cancer services: Insights from a qualitative study

Horrill, T., Crawford, J., Beck, S.M., Bourgeois, A., Kaur, J. Lambert, L.K., McKenzie, M., Stajduhar, K. & Browne, A.J. (2026). Frontiers in Oncology, doi: 10.3389/fonc.2026.1676594

Growing Equity: Cultivating Organizational Capacity for Equity-Oriented Cancer Care

Horrill, T. C., Crawford, J., Beck, S., Bourgeois, A., Kaur, J., Lambert, L. K., McKenzie, M., Stajduhar, K. I., & Browne, A. J. (2025). Growing Equity: Cultivating Organizational Capacity for Equity-Oriented Cancer Care (final project report).

Health and healthcare equity within the Canadian cancer care sector: A rapid scoping review

Lambert, L., Horrill, T., Beck, S., Bourgeois, A., Browne, A.J., Cheng, S., et al. (2023) Health and healthcare equity within the Canadian cancer care sector: A rapid scoping review. International Journal for Equity in Health, 22(20). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-01829-2.

Access denied: Nurses’ perspectives of access to oncology care among Indigenous peoples in Canada.

Horrill, T., Martin, D., Lavoie, J. & Schultz, A. Access denied: Nurses’ perspectives of access to oncology care among Indigenous peoples in Canada. Advances in Nursing Science, Publish Ahead of Print, (2022). https://doi.org/10.1097/ANS.0000000000000428.

Interventions designed to increase the uptake of lung cancer screening and implications for priority populations: a scoping review protocol

Sayani, A., Ali, M. A., Corrado, A. M., Ziegler, C., Sadler, A., Williams, C., & Lofters, A. (2021). Interventions designed to increase the uptake of lung cancer screening and implications for priority populations: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open11(7), e050056. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050056

A Critical Analysis of the Lived Experiences of Financial Toxicity and Cancer in Canada

Sayani, A., Dilney, J., Kuhnke, J., McNeil, T. (2021). “My Cancer Is Worth Only Fifteen Weeks?” A Critical Analysis of the Lived Experiences of Financial Toxicity and Cancer in Canada. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, x(x), 1-9. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2021.83

Advancing Health Equity in Cancer Care: The Lived Experiences of Poverty and Access to Lung Cancer Screening

Sayani, A., & Lofters, A. (2021). P61.07 Advancing Health Equity in Cancer Care: The Lived Experiences of Poverty and Access to Lung Cancer Screening. Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 16(10), S1174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtho.2021.08.642

Toward equity-oriented cancer care: a Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) protocol to promote equitable access to lung cancer screening

Sayani, A., Manthorne, J., Nicholson, E., Bloch, G., Parsons, J.A., Hwang, S.W., Bikila, A., Freedman, H., Rathbone, M., Jeji, T., Wathen, N., Browne, A.J., Varcoe, C., & Lofters, A.  (2022) Toward equity-oriented cancer care: a Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) protocol to promote equitable access to lung cancer screening. Research Involvement and Engagement, 8(11). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-022-00344-y

Interventions designed to increase the uptake of lung cancer screening and implications for priority populations: a scoping review protocol

Sayani, A, Ali, M.A., Corrado, A.M., Ziegler, C., Sadler, Al., Williams, C.,& Lofters, A. (2021). Interventions designed to increase the uptake of lung cancer screening and implications for priority populations: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open, 11. 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050056

Building Equitable Patient Partnerships during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Key Considerations for Research and Policy

Sayani, A., Maybee, A., Manthorne, J., Nicholson, E., Bloch, G., Parsons, J. A., Hwang, S. W., & Lofters, A. (2021). Building Equitable Patient Partnerships during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Key Considerations for Research and Policy. Healthcare policy, 17(1), 17–24. https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2021.26582

Advancing health equity in cancer care: The lived experiences of poverty and access to lung cancer screening

Sayani, A., Vahabi, M., O’Brien, M.A., Liu, G., Hwang, S., Selby, P., Nicholson, E., Giuliani, M., Lawson, E., & Lofters, A. (2021). Advancing health equity in cancer care: The lived experiences of poverty and access to lung cancer screening. PLoS ONE, 16(5). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251264