Abstract B104: [Advocate Abstract] Evaluating the impact of strategic partnerships

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Abstract Despite progress in reducing racial disparities in breast cancer mortality, black women in Chicago are still more than twice as likely to die from the disease than white women. For sixteen years, Sisters Working It Out (SWIO), a 501c3 nonprofit, has utilized peer education and patient navigation as evidence-based methods to increase breast cancer knowledge and access to and utilization of quality breast health care for underserved women across the city. Strategic partnerships have been an invaluable resource for the organization. The aim of this study is to evaluate the programmatic impact of an academic-nonprofit partnership in improving breast health knowledge for women on Chicago's Southside. Citation Format: Beaulah Brent. [Advocate Abstract] Evaluating the impact of strategic partnerships [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Eleventh AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; 2018 Nov 2-5; New Orleans, LA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2020;29(6 Suppl):Abstract nr B104.