New! Cancer Plan Development Supplemental Guidance 

This document provides examples and additional guidance for cancer plan subcommittees developing content for the 2026-2035 California Comprehensive Cancer Plan. View here.

Cancer Plan Guidance Package

• American Cancer Society Cancer Plan Tip Sheets here.

• CDOC Cancer Plan Fact Sheet here. 

• Cancer Prevention and Screening Recommendations here.

• SMARTIE Objective Worksheet here.

• Healthy People 2030 Analysis Tool here.

• National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program Priorities here. 

• Developing PSE Change Strategies for California’s Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan, 2026-2035 here.

• Data Sources for the 2026_2035 Cancer Plan here. 

• Resources for Developing Evidence Based and PSE Change Strategies here.

  • The Community Guide - free resource to help you choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in your community, here. 

  • California Department of Public Health Systems and Environmental Changes Toolkit - toolkit to support optimal nutrition, physical activity, and breastfeeding through fostering partnerships between local health jurisdiction’s Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health (MCAH) Programs and existing organizations to promote healthy environmental changes, here. 

  • Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) Innovations Exchange - The Innovations Exchange offers busy health professionals and researchers the opportunity to share, learn about, and ultimately adopt evidence-based innovations and tools suitable for a range of health care settings and populations, here. 

  • National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) - An online, searchable collection of innovative best practices across public health areas, here. 

  • California Department of Public Health: Healthy Choices for Healthier Futures, here.

  • Prevention Institute - Synthesizes research and practice; develops prevention tools and frameworks; helps design and guide interdisciplinary partnerships; and conducts training and strategic consultation with government, foundations, and community-based organizations nationwide and internationally, here. 

  • Cochrane Review - systematic reviews of primary research in human health care and health policy. They investigate the effects of interventions for prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation, here.

  • American Public Health Association (APHA) - champions the health of all people and all communities. We are the only organization that influences federal policy, has a 140-plus year perspective and brings together members from all fields of public health, here. 

  • California Center for Public Health Advocacy (CCPHA) - advocates for policy change simultaneously at state and local levels, we network local efforts together for statewide impact, and we support our work with grassroots organizing, strategic research, media advocacy, and direct lobbying, here.

  • California Pan-Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN) - The California Pan-Ethnic Health Network is a multicultural statewide advocacy organization that works to improve the health of communities of color, here.

  • ChangeLab Solutions - Provides community-based solutions for America’s most common and preventable diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and asthma. Our solutions promote the common good by making healthier choices easier for everyone, here.

  • Evidence-Based Cancer Control Programs (EBCCP) - searchable database of evidence-based cancer control programs and is designed to provide program planners and public health practitioners easy and immediate access to program materials, here.

  • HealthBegins - HealthBegins helps healthcare systems and community partners improve outcomes, control costs, and advance equity by addressing social determinants of health. How? Through hands-on training, great tools, deep expertise, and a team that knows how to make complex changes simple. Yes, you are ready to move healthcare upstream, here. 

  • Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local Governments - created by the Public Health Institute, the California Department of Public Health, and the American Public Health Association in response to growing interest in using collaborative approaches to improve population health by embedding health considerations into decision-making processes across a broad array of sectors, here.

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI) - The National Cancer Institute is the federal government's principal agency for cancer research and training, here.

  • State Cancer Profiles; Statistics - State Cancer Profiles characterizes the cancer burden in a standardized manner to motivate action, integrate surveillance into cancer control planning, characterize areas and demographic groups, and expose health disparities, here.

  • PolicyLink - national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity by Lifting Up What Works, here.

  • Prevention Research Centers - network of 26 academic research centers in 24 states that

study how people and their communities can avoid or counter the risks for chronic illnesses, such as heart disease, obesity, and cancer, here.

• Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) - Committed to chronic disease state policy, SOPHE members and partners, legislators, researchers, political leaders, and health officials can find information and resources on current chronic disease state policy, disparities associated with chronic disease, and collaborating health policy organizations, here.

• U.S Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) - Created in 1984, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is an independent group of national experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine that works to improve the health of all Americans by making evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services such as screenings, counseling services, or preventive medications, here.