Public Health Sciences

Our lab is advancing a deeper understanding of early-onset cancers—how they develop, how they can be prevented, and how they impact younger lives.

Research in our lab is focused on the health and economic burden of obesity and obesity-related multimorbidity, prevention of multiple myeloma, surgical treatment for obesity, transplant outcomes research, and health disparities.

Our lab is focused on research, community engagement and dissemination of evidence based materials.

Our research focuses on supporting cancer screening and treatment decision-making to reduce health disparities and to address challenges associated with health literacy in diverse populations.

Our research investigates the social, political, and economic contexts that shape how people seek and respond to health care and medicine, across a range of diseases.

Our lab focuses on cancer prevention and control, health disparities, and community-based research.

Our population health and health disparities research program uses social epidemiology methods, health behavior theory, and genomic data.

Our lab integrates epidemiologic and clinical research methods to better understand the etiology, progression, and exacerbation of clinical conditions, particularly urologic and gynecologic conditions.

Our lab aims to to characterize the molecular basis and determinants of mammographic breast density in order to identify those that can be targeted in breast cancer prevention, especially in premenopausal women, and to address methods for the use of biomarkers and their applications in cancer etiology and prognosis.

Our lab seeks to understand how people think about health issues and how those thoughts influence their health-related decisions and behavior.