Past Lectures

Date Speaker(s) Presentation Title
December 2017

Jada G. Hamilton, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Attending Psychologist and Assistant Member Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Memorial Hospital

 Precision Oncology and Genetic Risk Information: Exploring Patients' Preferences and Responses
February 2018

Lorna H. McNeill, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Chair, Department of Health Disparities, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX

 Reducing Cancer Health Disparities through Community Engagement: Working with Faith-Based Organizations (Project CHURCH)
February 2021

David B. Allison, Ph.D.
School of Public Health, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN

 Rescuing Nutrition Science’s Reputation from the Bin of Condemnation to that Worthy of Constructive Criticism: Toward Greater Rigor and Warrant in Nutrition and Obesity
October 2018

Amy Abernethy, M.D., Ph.D.
Flatiron Health

 Research at Scale: Rethinking evidence generation for the 21st Century
June 2018

Nickolas Papadopoulos, Ph.D.
Professor of Oncology and Pathology; Director of Translational Genetics; Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics & Therapeutics; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins Institutions, Baltimore, MD

Role of non-Invasive Tests for the Early Detection of Cancer
March 2018

Philip E. Castle, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Global Health Center Bronx, NY

 Screening for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
May 2016

Nancy Krieger, Ph.D.
Boston University

Segregation, Jim Crow, Racism, Embodied History & the People’s Health: Implications for Cancer Registries, Research & Prevention
April 2023
Yelena Wu, Ph.D.

Yelena Wu, Ph.D.
Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah

 Skin cancer prevention among young adults: The Risk Information and Skin-cancer Education for Undergraduate Prevention study
December 2015

Norma Fox Kanarek, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

 State Cancer Plans, Cancer Centers and Population Health: Tools or Toolbox?
May 2016

Sarah Gehlert, Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis

The Effect of Social Influences on African-American Breast Cancer Patients