Past Lectures

Date Speaker(s) Presentation Title
April 2021

Nilanjan Chatterjee, Ph.D.
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Oncology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

 Polygenic Risk Scores in Cancer Prevention
April 2021

Ellen M. Daley, Ph.D., M.P.H.
University of South Florida College of Public Health

 HPV Vaccine Strategies in the US: Why Haven’t We Been More Successful?
March 2021

Christopher Friese, Ph.D., R.N., A.O.C.N., F.A.A.N.
University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI

 Improving Cancer Care: Listening to Patients and Clinicians
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
January 2021

Lauren McCullough, Ph.D., M.S.P.H.
Emory University, Winship Cancer Institute, Atlanta, GA

 Understanding Breast Cancer Disparities: Cells to Society
December 2020

Cosette M. Wheeler, Ph.D.
Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico (UNM) Regents Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UNM Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM

 New Mexico HPV Pap Registry: Integration of Real World Data to Improve Cervical Cancer Screening and Inform Policy
November 2020

Laundette Jones, Ph.D., M.P.H.
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Program in Health Equity and Population Health

 From Cells to Communities: Building a Scientist-Survivor Program
October 2020

Lisa S. Shock, Ph.D.
VCU Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

 Mitochondrial Epigenetics: Surprising Roles in mtDNA Structure, Mitochondrial Function and Metastasis
October 2020

Ilona Jaspers, Ph.D., M.S.
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

 E-cigarettes and Vaping: Toxicities, Misconceptions, and Health Effects
September 2020

Edward L. Giovannucci, M.D., Sc.D.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

 The Primary Prevention of Colorectal Cancer