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Competing Interests: M. Baliker reports being an employee of Baliker Healthcare Consulting; ownership interest in CareDx and Exact Science; and honoraria from the American Kidney Fund, CareDx, the Department of Defense, and Talaris Therapeutics. G. Roberts reports being an employee of the University of Washington (UW), Center for Dialysis Innovation; UW Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Center for Transformative Research; UW, Kidney Research Institute; ownership interest in Options Unlimited International (50% ownership) a management consulting firm; and is a member of the “Preparing for the Future: Creating Ethics Frameworks for Xenotransplant Implementation Working Group” under the auspices of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University, within the Department of Population Health’s sub-entity Transplant Ethics and Policy Research."

Cancer causes substantial morbidity and mortality every year in the United States. To address cancer prevention and control in Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Division of Public Health and the University of Wisconsin Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center forged a unique partnership. Using funds from the state legislature, the university, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Control Program was created. This health department-university partnership model has allowed both institutions to contribute their distinct strengths to projects that neither organization would have been able to complete on its own. Some challenges also have arisen during development and execution of the program, but overall, this collaborative partnership has brought diverse groups together to develop and implement evidence-based cancer control programs and policies in Wisconsin.