Past Lectures

Date Speaker(s) Presentation Title
June 2017

Matthew W. Kreuter, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Dean & Kahn Family Professor of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis

 Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Health Communication Research to Eliminate Health Disparities
December 2023
Susan Magasi, Ph.D.

Susan Magasi, Ph.D.
Professor and Head of the Department of Occupational Therapy at the University of Illinois Chicago

 Let’s Talk About Disability: Tackling the Taboo to Improve Cancer Health Equity
March 2019

Bradley J. Zebrack, Ph.D., M.S.W., M.P.H.
University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control

 Life, Interrupted – The Adolescent/Young Adult Cancer Experience
March 2019

Karen Glanz, Ph.D., M.P.H.
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA

Local Policies and Environments: How well do they work to improve Health Behavior?
June 2017

Reginald Tucker-Seeley, Sc.D., Sc.M., M.A.
Professor, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California

 Measuring financial well-being in cancer prevention research: Results from the Money-Health Connection Study
January 2019

Bruce Alexander, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN

 Mesothelioma and Taconite Mining Exposures
April 2018

Nicholas J. Shaheen, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor, Departments of Medicine & Epidemiology; Chief, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease Chapel Hill, NC

 Misplaced Priorities and Barrett’s Esophagus
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 2016

Erin Kent, Ph.D., M.S.
National Cancer Institute

 Moving from Patient- to Family-Centric: Progress and Remaining Challenges in Cancer Caregiving
May 2020

Linda Ko, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA

 Multi-level Communication Intervention to Promote HPV Vaccination among East African Adolescents