Delivering a Research-Enabled Multistakeholder Partnership for Enhanced Patient Care at a Population Level: The Northern Ireland Comprehensive Cancer Program

“This Centre is forging global partnerships to relieve the human suffering from cancer.” The words of former US Senator George Mitchell, captured on a giant 10‐meter high banner, greet every visitor to the Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology (CCRCB) at Queen's University Belfast (QUB) in Northern Ireland (NI), reflecting the aspiration to match local ambition with global collaboration to achieve better outcomes for patients with cancer. The opening of the CCRCB by Senator Mitchell represented an important step in a capacity‐building initiative that commenced in the mid‐1990s to address the fragmented and uncoordinated nature of cancer care and research in NI.