The NSW Premier’s Award is the leading NSW awards program to celebrate excellence and innovation in cancer research.

Professor Harrison received the award for the CanEngage project, funded by Cancer Institute NSW and an NHMRC Ideas Grants, which has sought to improve cancer care for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD).

Patients from multicultural communities are more likely to have medication errors, healthcare-associated infections, and complications of care due to communication problems, low health literacy and a multitude of systemic barriers. The project team co-designed patient engagement strategies to address safety issues for and in partnership with CALD cancer service consumers and providers in New South Wales and Victorian cancer inpatient, outpatient and day procedure services.

A key component of the CanEngage project was the development of a co-facilitator network of consumers and multilingual fieldworkers within the community with lived experience of cancer to help co-design the research project and interventions.

• Learn more about the CanEngage project.
• Listen to the CanEngage co-facilitators speak about their research.
• Catch the podcast from the MJA with Professor Harrison.

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