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Lecture given by Dr. Scarlett Lin Gomez, MPH, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, in honor of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month.
This lecture is sponsored by the Cancer Control Research Program, part of the UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. This is an IN-PERSON event that will take place on Wednesday, May 10, from 10-11 AM.
Lecture Title: Structural and Social Drivers of Health and Cancer Health Disparities Research
Abstract: We are increasingly aware of the impact of structural and social determinants as fundamental drivers of health inequities, but how do we design and implement population-level studies to investigate the role of these factors? This presentation will present a framework and examples of "cells to society" studies utilizing this framework.
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Please register by Friday, May 5, 2023.
Scarlett Lin Gomez is Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Co-Leader of the Cancer Control Program of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, at the University of California, San Francisco. She is Director of the Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry, a participant in the NCI SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results) program and the California Cancer Registry. Her research focuses primarily on cancer health disparities and aims to understand the multilevel drivers, particularly the structural and social determinants of health, of those disparities.
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