Be Well Communities

Be Well Communities™ is a place-based strategy for cancer prevention and control, working with communities to promote wellness and stop cancer before it starts. It unites individuals, schools, workplaces, government agencies, health care providers and policy-makers to plan and carry out community-led solutions that will make positive, long-lasting changes in people's lives.

Be Well Communities is an initiative of the Cancer Prevention and Control Platform, within the Moon Shots Program™. MD Anderson serves as the backbone organization to support Be Well Communities with three major goals:

• Engage the community in an ongoing dialogue about the importance of healthy behaviors
• Create and advance community-based strategies to improve cancer prevention and control
• Increase engagement in healthy behaviors and activities to reduce cancer risk in five key areas:
  • Diet
  • Physical activity
  • Preventive care
  • Tobacco control
  • Ultraviolet radiation exposure

MD Anderson is responsible for envisioning the initiative, empowering the community, executing the initiative through funded collaborating organizations, evaluating the success of the initiative, and creating an exit and sustainability plan to transition the initiative to the community. Be Well Communities brings decades of cancer prevention and control expertise from our leading experts to communities.