2023-24 Annual report
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Leadership message
Hello, I’m Craig Earle, CEO of the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer.
We are excited to share CPAC’s latest annual report with you and shine a light on the many ways our work with partners across the country is improving cancer outcomes for all people in Canada.
2023-24 was a year of action. CPAC collaborated extensively with 83 partners across Canada to move 65 cancer system initiatives from the co-design stage to implementation.
The initiatives we supported galvanized partners to drive progress on key priorities such as:
- Accelerating momentum on the elimination of cervical cancer;
- Modernizing cancer data systems through the pan-Canadian Cancer Data Strategy;
- Supporting increased access to high-quality screening for lung cancer;
- Taking action on self-determined priorities with First Nations, Inuit and Métis; and
- Improving equity in access to palliative care.
As the steward of the Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control, one of our most dynamic attributes and strengths is our ability to convene partners to tackle issues related to cancer, collectively.
This was demonstrated through events like the Pan-Canadian Summit on the Elimination of Cervical Cancer, which brought together over 180 leaders from across Canada to accelerate momentum towards eliminating cervical cancer in Canada.
We also hosted the inaugural Cancer Equity Measurement Forum, bringing together over 100 health, patient and community leaders from across Canada to establish a network with a shared vision to advance health equity measurement and reporting across the cancer continuum in Canada.
CPAC is committed to advancing health equity as a cancer system-level priority for all people. This year, we continued to integrate diversity, equity and inclusion across the organization and made progress across all areas of action identified in our Health Equity Framework.
We engaged diverse patient and family voices in the work of the Partnership, ensuring it reflects the lived experience of those who have gone through or are living with cancer. For 2023-24, we expanded the roster of patient and family advisors by recruiting four new advisors from equity-denied communities to include those experiencing the greatest barriers to safe, equitable cancer care.
We built on our actions, accountabilities and commitment to reconciliation through the reconciliation pathway and by investing in Indigenous-led initiatives to improve cancer outcomes in First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities.
We invite you to explore the annual report and learn more about how CPAC is advancing the priorities of the Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control.
We are entrusted with an urgent and critical mandate, one we are able to implement with the support of a diverse and collaborative network of partners and advisors, Board of Directors, Executive team and staff who are committed to a future in which:
- Fewer people develop cancer;
- More people survive cancer;
- Those living with the disease have a better quality of life;
- All people in Canada have equitable access to quality cancer care.
Together, we’re doing what cannot be done alone.