Past Lectures

Date Speaker(s) Presentation Title
November 2021

Cathy Bradley, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Colorado School of Public Health, Deputy Director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO

 Cancer’s Financial Hardship: Opportunities for Policy and Practice
November 2021

Graham A. Colditz, M.D., Dr.P.H.
Chief, Division of Public Health Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO

 Addressing Breast Cancer Disparities in St Louis: From Population to Bench Science
December 2021

Chanita Hughes-Halbert, Ph.D.
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

 Translational Behavioral Science Research in Cancer Health Disparities
January 2022

Douglas Luke, Ph.D.
Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis

 Why is implementation so hard? A complex systems view of D&I Science
January 2022

Anant Madabhushi, Ph.D.
Donnell Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland, OH

 Interpreter of Maladies - AI for Addressing Problems in Precision Oncology
March 2022

Marjorie McCullough, Sc.D., R.D.
Senior Scientific Director, Epidemiology Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA

 Adherence to Dietary and Lifestyle Guidelines and Cancer Risk and Survival
April 2022

Geoffrey Fong, Ph.D.
University of Waterloo (Canada)

 Advancing cancer prevention policies through research evidence: The International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project
May 2022

Kevin Shield, Ph.D.
Head, Collaborating Centre in Addiction and Mental Health Pan American Health Organization Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology Dalla Lana School of Public Health University of Toronto

 Alcohol, Cancer and the Potential Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Future Alcohol-attributable Cancer Rates
September 2022
A. Janet Tomiyama

A. Janet Tomiyama, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles; Director, DIeting, Stress, and Health (DiSH) laboratory

 Avoiding Unintended Consequences of a Weight-Centered Approach to Cancer Prevention
January 2023
Ashley M. Henneghan, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.

Ashley M. Henneghan, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.
School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin

 Defining and Improving Cognitive Health Outcomes of Cancer Survivors