Kia L. Davis, ScD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Division of Public Health Sciences
- Phone: 314-362-5298
Specialties
- Cancer multiomics
- Chronic disease
- Racial disparities
- Socioeconomic status
- Structural determinants
- Policy strategy
Meet Dr. Davis
Dr. Kia Davis is an epidemiologist specializing in reducing cancer health disparities by informing organizational and policy change. She is the program director for the Community Research Fellows Training Program (CRFT).
She is interested in reducing cancer health disparities by informing organizational and policy change. Her research program will focus on the relationships between socioeconomic status, stress, and cancer risk factors in underserved communities.
Dr. Davis earned her doctorate from Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed postdoctoral fellowship training at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Degrees
Doctor of Science
Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
2015
Master of Public Health
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
2007
Fellowship
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cancer Health Disparities
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
2017
Research interests
Cancer risk
Chronic disease
Socioeconomic indicators of health disparities
Improving measurement of socioeconomic stressors
Reducing cancer risk
Training Program
Community Research Fellows Training (CRFT) Program
660 S. Euclid Ave.
St. Louis MO 63110
Phone: 314-747-2183
Email: [email protected]