Past Lectures

Date Speaker(s) Presentation Title
February 2016

Susan T. Mayne, Ph.D., F.A.C.E.
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA

 FDA's Role in Translating Science for Improved Public Health/Cancer Prevention
January 2016

Melissa Troester, Ph.D., M.P.H.
UNCCH Gillings School of Global Public Health

 Landscape of Normal Breast and Breast Cancer
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?
December 2015

Corinne Husten, M.D., M.P.H.
FDA

 The FDA Center for Tobacco Products: Its Role in Reducing Tobacco Use and How Regulatory Science Informs Action
October 2015

Kathryn Weaver, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine

 Integrating Tobacco Cessation in the Oncology Setting
October 2015

Gwen Murphy, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Epidemiologist, Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics

 GI Hormones and Cancer: The Good, The Bad, and The Cholecystokinin
October 2015

Dominique S. Michaud, Sc.D.
Professor, Tufts University Medical School

 Oral Microbiome and Pancreatic Cancer
October 2015

Worta McCaskill-Stevens, M.D., M.S. & Ann M. Geiger, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Community Oncology and Prevention Trials Research Group & Healthcare Delivery Research Program

Opportunities in Cancer Care Delivery Research
June 2015

Martin Lajous, M.D., M.S., D.Sc.
National Institute of Public Health of Mexico (INSP) (Mexico) and Center for Research and Population Health (France)

The Mexican Teachers’ Cohort: Bridging a Population Research Gap
June 2015

Mindy S. Kurzer, Ph.D.
Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute, University of Minnesota

Green Tea: Can It Prevent Breast Cancer?